Chef Gisli Matt, who tells the story of Slippurinn, the restaurant in Iceland’s Westman Islands, attracts the reader with his extraordinary story. Gisli Matt, who grew up in a town whose landscape was completely changed by the lava flow and erupting volcano in 1973, gained a brand new culinary understanding by blending local products grown here and contemporary cuisine. Slippurinn is a book for lovers of all Nordic and for food lovers the world over.