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“The traditional roots of Scandinavian cuisine are not that spectacular, to say the least. When we write about the traditions that we are inspired by, it's more techniques like smoking, preserving. Many of them are not made to make food delicious; they're just around so that you can make food last through the winter. There isn't a great deal of tradition to tap into.”

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Rene Redzepi

Rene Redzepi is a Danish chef renowned for his work at Noma in Copenhagen, which has been named the world's best restaurant multiple times. He is celebrated for his innovative Northern European cuisine, emphasizing local ingredients and seasonal dishes. more

“Summer's the same, autumn is even more extreme. Then winter is when you sort of condense all of your ideas. You process all these things and you try to look for new concepts. In that sense, your intuition is in hibernation. What you fill up is your imagination; you fill up your memories there.”

Trying Imagination Memories Winter Intuition Autumn Our Memories

Author:Rene Redzepi

“But when spring and summer happens, it's intuition. Everything is based on intuition. There's not too much time to overthink, over-complicate. Those wild strawberries, they might be there for two days.”

Summer Spring Intuition

Author:Rene Redzepi

“I just love this idea of using, especially in terms of food, using that common sense. If you follow that - it's hard to talk about it without sounding like some New Age idiot, which I think is a bit unfair - but, if you do follow that natural cycle, you will inevitably eat better, cheaper, and much, much, much, much healthier.”

Thinking Age Term Natural Common Common Sense Idiot Unfair New Age

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“Cooking, I mean, food, cooking foods is just everything that I do from morning to night. It's how I choose to live my life: through cooking, people that are in food culture. And I love it.”

People Mean Night Culture Morning Cooking Living My Life

Author:Rene Redzepi