W hen chef Magnus Nilsson was first approached to write a Nordic cookbook, he scoffed at the idea. " To write a book like this is not only impossible, it doesn't make sense, " he eventually wrote, in the introduction of the large, 700-pluspage book-which turned out to be both possible and sensible-called simply the " The Nordic Cookbook. " Nilsson is one of the chefs at the heart of the movement sweeping the globe that elevates the foods, traditions and landscape of the Scandinavian high North. sonsofnorway.com VIKING APRIL 2016 19http://www.sonsofnorway.com