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Local Icelandic chef featured on the Today Show in his homeland
By The Bahamas Weekly News Team
Nov 19, 2008 - 9:25:07 PM

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On location during the Today Show segment at the Blue Lagoon which is close to Reykjavik City in Iceland. The background shows people in the Blue Lagoon, which is a famous and natural geothermal spa where the steamy waters are part of a lava formation. It is one of the most visited spots in Iceland.

ICELAND - Past resident and favourite local chef to Grand Bahamians, Volundur Volundarson, a.k.a. 'Chef Worly' to many, has been home in his native Iceland for some time now working on his popular cooking show, "Chef Volli's Cooking Show" as well as the launch of his cookbook, "Delicious Iceland" which features Icelandic seafood dishes and more. During this time away, the chef also became a new father with the birth of his son, Baldvin Snaer.

Just this week he was guest chef on location for the Today Show with America's best loved weatherman and NBC television personality, Al Roker. The show featuring Volundarson was aired November 18th and the chef gave his unique twist on some favorite of his favourite recipes: light beer-steamed mussels, fresh scallop ceviche and grilled monkfish. The segment was a part of the Today Show series called Ends of the Earth where Al Roker went to Iceland, Meridith Viera went to Sidney, Australia, Matt Lauer was in Belis and Ann Curry went to Kilimanjaro.

The background shows people in the Blue Lagoon, which is a famous and natural geothermal spa where the steamy waters are part of a lava formation. It is one of the most visited spots in Iceland.

Commenting on his return to Grand Bahama Island in the very near future, Volundarson said,

"All I can say is that I´m very glad to be returning to Grand Bahama and excited go get back in the kitchen again. I am very attached to the island since it has been my home for the past eight years."

"I have a lot of great ideas for Sabor and it will be a new adventure to relaunch it as soon as possible with a fabulous new menu, live music on Saturdays, a daily happy hour and a lot of other sizzling surprises."

His book, Delicious Iceland, was chosen by the Gourmand World Cook Book Awards as one of 100 best culinary books published in the world for the last 12 years. You can read all about it on the website: www.cookbookfair.com  The book had already received special honourary awards by Gourmand in 2006 in Beijing, China.
Chef Worly intends to do a similar book about the Bahamas. The website for his cookbook is www.deliciousiceland.com     
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