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The collage series Danish Pastry examines the history and etymology of Danish pastry. Paradoxically this kind of pastry is called “Viennese bread” in Denmark as well as in Iceland, Norway and Sweden. In Vienna, however, the pastry is known as “Kopenhagener Gebäck.”
The story goes that in 1850, a strike among Danish baker assistants provoked Danish bakers to accept for¬eign work power, especially from Vienna. The Viennese baker assistants had a hard time relating to Danish measures and recipes. They introduced their own recipes and customs and “Plundergebäcken”, the ancestor of “Danish pastry”, became very popular. Over the years, Danish bakers changed the recipe of “Plunderge¬bäcken” resulting in what we today know as “Danish pastry.” During the Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, several religious Iranian groups advocated changing the name of the highly popular Danish pastry “Shriniye Danmarki” to “Roses of the Prophet Muhammad.” However the compliance with the proposed name was short-lived and mixed.
