“When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.”

“People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.”

“The New Nordic diet originated in 2004, when the visionary chefs Rene Redzepi and Claus Meyer called a symposium of regional chefs to address the public's increasing consumption of processed foods, additives, highly refined grains, and mass-produced poultry and meat.”