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For today’s Geo Quiz, here’s a story about 14 of the world’s top chefs. They recently gathered in a remote place. It’s a 14 hour train ride north from Helsinki. The chefs traveled there to demonstrate how to make a good meal from whatever they could find by hunting, fishing or foraging.

One chef created a version of a Japanese soup, with spruce and reindeer milk. Another gathered wild mushrooms, and garnished them with lichen, blueberries, and sorrel. The dinner menu featured snow grouse and leg of bear, carrots with pine needles, salmon trout wrapped in moss, and for dessert: blueberries in reindeer blood, described as “sweetly intense and gamey.”

So, can you name this bountiful region of Finland that extends 80 miles north of the Arctic Circle.

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Geo Answer:

It’s home to the Sami people and it lies inside the Arctic Circle and the answer is Finnish Lapland.