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
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
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
People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.
– 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
I've never had anything but the freedom to do what I wanted just as long as it made me happy.
– 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
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.