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Rene Redzepi Quotes

I can tell you one of the most surprising ingredients I’ve ever found. Perhaps five years ago on a beach I saw this herb that looked exactly like chives. I put it in my mouth and started chewing and, surprise, it tasted exactly like coriander.

– Rene Redzepi

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

I started my cooking ‘career’ aged 15, almost 20 years ago. At the time it was quite a shock suddenly working 75 to 80 hours a week, without time to play football or other sports.

– Rene Redzepi

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

– Rene Redzepi

Fifteen years ago, France was the promised land of cooking. So I looked at a map, found five restaurants and faxed them to ask for a job. Within five minutes, I got a reply from the then three- star Le Jardin des Sens in Montpellier.

– Rene Redzepi

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

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

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

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

– Rene Redzepi

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

My last meal on Earth, I would love it to be a bowl of blueberries with cold cream.

– Rene Redzepi

The restaurant industry is brutal.

– Rene Redzepi

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

There is no conflict between a better meal and a better world.

– Rene Redzepi

I can’t crack jokes because I don’t have any.

– Rene Redzepi

Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people.

– Rene Redzepi

I would love to eat a really great burger, but it doesn’t exist in our part of the world.

– Rene Redzepi

People will travel anywhere for good food – it’s crazy.

– Rene Redzepi

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 doesn’t have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.

– Rene Redzepi

Appetite as it relates to the human being, the person. How do you find appetite for what you do? How do you relate to appetite? How do you get appetite, not only for a meal but also to do the work you do?

– Rene Redzepi

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

– Rene Redzepi

I only have the restaurant. If I do other things, it’s only to do with the restaurant.

– Rene Redzepi

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

Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

– Rene Redzepi

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

I’m a bit of a glutton – I eat too much of all that is good to eat.

– Rene Redzepi