A Little Continental Journey is not an attempt to create one unified world cuisine. It is a menu built as a tour with clear stops: Indian crispness, Peruvian freshness, Italian creaminess, French sauce and a Danish dessert that brings everybody home without passports or border control.
Ceviche is closely associated with Peru, and UNESCO describes it as a traditional dish of raw fish marinated in lemon, seasoned with chilli and salt and served with local ingredients. This explains why ceviche works as a fresh turning point in the menu: acidity, the sea, fruit and precision in one dish.
Pakoras provide a crisp, warm opening, while risotto requires calm, rhythm and patience. It should be creamy but still alive rather than heavy. Poussin with grape sauce brings in the French thread through roasting, sauce and vegetables, before Danish red berry pudding with cream closes the evening with something familiar and fresh with berries.
The theme works well at Kromans because the menu provides many different tasks. There is frying, marinating, stirring, roasting, tasting and adjusting. You quickly discover that flavour is not simply about following a recipe. It is about recognising when a dish needs acidity, richness, salt, depth or merely a small kick in the right direction.
The social element matters too. When people work together across several cuisines in one evening, conversation, questions and tasting arise naturally. The craft becomes easier to absorb. And it is pleasant to take a journey that ends with Danish berries rather than jet lag.