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
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.
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesnt have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.
I know every movement of my kitchen.
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 can't crack jokes because I don't have any.
My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.
If you see how a plant grows and you taste it in situ you have a perfect example of how it should taste on the plate.
I had turned down other head chef jobs. I didn't want to take over someone else's cuisine. I wanted to start from scratch.
I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.
Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.
I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.
There's no media training. In cooking school, there's not even manager training. You learn the fundamentals of cooking. Everything else is learning by doing.
If you see someone in the kitchen that has good hands and a quick brain, then you need that person to be in the front of everything.