Rene Redzepi famous quotes

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Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Opportunity #Chef #New Opportunity
People will travel anywhere for good food â€“ itâ€™s crazy.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Crazy #People #Good Food
There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Meals #World #Conflict
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#School #Media #Cooking
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Thinking #Luxury #World
Learning about issues such as sustainability and locavorism are things that you need to have as part of you as a chef because it will make you cook more delicious food.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Issues #Needs #Chef
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Perfect #Taste #Example
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Hands #Brain #Kitchen
My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Earth #Lasts #Meals
Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Cuisine #Pastries #Scandinavians
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Home #Greatness #Knees
The restaurant industry is brutal.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Restaurants #Brutal
When people are grownups they're grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.
-- Rene Redzepi

#People #Decision #Grownups
I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Long #Made #Wanted
I'm a bit of a glutton - I eat too much of all that is good to eat.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Too Much
I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn't exist in our part of the world.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Burgers #World #Really Great
A gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Kitchen
Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Delight #Diners #Chef
Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.
-- Rene Redzepi

#People #Dining #Treats
I can't crack jokes because I don't have any.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Cracks #Jokes
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Jobs #Scratches #Want
I never cooked at home - my father was the chef.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Father #Home #Chef
I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it's only to do with the restaurant.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Restaurants
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Beach #Jobs #Believe
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Letting Go #Taste #Soil
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Book #College #Public Speaking
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.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Home #Thinking #Cooking
I know every movement of my kitchen.
-- Rene Redzepi

#Kitchen #Movement

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