Danish Dietary Advice

• Assemble rye bread, herring, raw onion and aquavit.

• Top the bread with a slice of onion and a bit of herring.

• Take a bite, then sip a bit of the firewater.

• Chew.

• Yum.

Product placement note: there's a lot of inedible herring in the world. The stuff we sampled came out of a jar labeled "Skippersild Marinrede Sild," and it was super--mild but tangy, and not fishy. The swill was "Aalborg Taffel Akavit." The onions were fresh picked in the back garden.