Out of the cold

Summer brings the Arctic to life, nowhere more so than in home and restaurant kitchens. Mike Peters hops off a cruise ship touring Greenland to sample the local bounty.

I must have been a polar bear in a previous life. I have been eating seal and whale for three days in a row.

That's just one amazing aspect of a trip to Greenland, where the population is small and indigenous, and the land is huge and largely inhospitable. Locals have hunted and eaten seal and whale for centuries. Seal fur is used to make warm clothing and shelter, though environmental groups often criticize the trade in hides abroad.