Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
Rene RedzepiRead
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.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the joy and fulfillment of experiencing nature and harvesting food yourself.
Rene Redzepi's quote highlights the simplicity and profound pleasure found in connecting with nature through foraging. By engaging in the act of picking your own food, one not only appreciates the greatness of nature but also gains a deeper understanding of the relationship between the land and nourishment, leading to a sense of fulfillment and gratitude upon returning home to enjoy the fruits of oneβs labor.
In practice
During a nature retreat, this quote can inspire participants to embrace outdoor activities.
Chefs have a new opportunity - and perhaps even an obligation - to inform the public about what is good to eat, and why.
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.
Come to the sunset tree! The day is past and gone; The woodman's axe lies free, And the reaper's work is done.
You have a whole life in the outdoors, you realize you have a sense of responsibility to protect these wild places.
To be a friend of the Everglades is not necessarily to spend time wandering around out there.
Third, there is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called 'sportsmanship'. Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments. It is aimed to augment the role of skill and shrink the role of Gadgets in the pursuit of wild things.
Either we leave our descendants an endowment of zero poverty, zero fossil-fuel use, and zero biodiversity loss, or we leave them facing a tax bill from Earth that could wipe them out.
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground, pulped, strained, blended, prettified, and sanitized beyond resemblance to any part of any creature that ever lived. The products of nature and agriculture have been made, to all appearances, the products of industry. Both eater and eaten are thus in exile from biological reality.
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