Rene Redzepi
Rene Redzepi
René Redzepiis a Danish chef and co-owner of the two-Michelin star restaurant Noma in the Christianshavn neighborhood of Copenhagen, Denmark. His restaurant was voted the best restaurant in the world in 2010 San Pellegrino Awards, 2011, 2012 and 2014. Redzepi is noted for his work for the reinvention and refinement of a new Nordic cuisine and food that is characterized by inventiveness and clean flavours...
NationalityDanish
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth16 December 1977
CountryDenmark
My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.
All of the people who work in the kitchen with me go out into the forests and on to the beach. It's a part of their job. If you work with me you will often be starting your day in the forest or on the shore because I believe foraging will shape you as a chef.
I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.
I know every movement of my kitchen.
I still cook at home. A lot of chefs I think don't cook at home. But I still do, I love cooking at home, I love having friends.
The restaurant industry is brutal.
Take a trip to the forest and experience the greatness of getting on your knees and picking your own food and going home... and eating it.
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.
A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.
I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.
I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.
When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.