Here local hunters and fishermen sell their daily catch. Today, every town in Greenland has a local fish and meat market called Kalaaliaraq (“little Greenlander”). If you turn the food pyramid upside down, you have the Greenlandic diet – little fruit and vegetables but lots of meat,” she says. “Traditional Greenlandic food represents a strong anomaly on global diet recommendations. Yet according to Hauptmann, this prescription is not appropriate for the population of Greenland. Today, health and climate experts urge the world to adopt a plant-based diet. That core diet hasn’t changed much with the ensuing centuries, and the same foods remain essential for Greenlanders, who find in them both nutrition and an important part of their cultural history. As early as 2500 BC, when the first wave of migration brought humans across the Arctic, people in Greenland were surviving on game, birds, fish, and sea mammals, especially seals. Although today, supermarkets in Greenland offer more Western and plant-based foods, meat still constitutes an important part of the local diet. That meant focusing on animal proteins – especially seafood and game. Hauptmann recently completed a postdoctoral research project on the microbiology of traditional Greenlandic food.
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