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 RedzepiRead
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
Interpretation
Chefs are now expected to educate the public on healthy eating choices.
In the modern culinary landscape, chefs hold a significant responsibility to guide consumers towards healthier eating habits. They have the unique opportunity to leverage their expertise and creativity to inform the public about nutrition, the origins of ingredients, and the importance of making informed food choices, thereby influencing the overall well-being of society.
In practice
A nutrition seminar led by a chef on healthy meal preparation.
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.
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.
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.
Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness, to teach him how to develop that uniqueness, and then to show him how to share it because thatβs the only reason for having anything.
If present trends continue, our country may soon find itself far behind many other nations in both science and technology nations where, if you inform strangers that you are a mathematician, they respond with admiration and not by telling you how much they hated math in school, and how they sure could use you to balance their checkbooks.
What you have been taught by listening to others' words you will forget very quickly; what you have learned with your whole body you will remember for the rest of your life.
I don't really care how people read. I care if people read.
The primary goal in the education of children is to teach, and to give the example of, a virtuous life.
A great deal has been written in recent years about the purported lack of motivation in the children of the Negro ghettos. Little in my experience supports this, yet the phrase has been repeated endlessly, and the blame in almost all cases is placed somewhere outside the classroom.
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