21 years ago when I started cooking, to be a cook meant that you were going to stay in the basement. Being a chef, you would never be on a book tour. You could never dream that 20 years later on you would be on a book tour. It wasn't a part of your dreams because it was just totally unrealistic. When did cooks - restaurant cooks, not cooks that have 15,000 television shows - when did cooks become part of pop culture the way they are?
Rene RedzepiA gastronomical supermeal didn't necessarily have to involve the things I had brought from other top kitchens.
Rene RedzepiI 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 RedzepiIf 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