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.
It is the sweetest spring within the memory of man. So green, so mild, so beautiful! Ah, what a contrast between nature without and my own soul so torn with doubt and terror!
Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.
The richest values of wilderness lie not in the days of Daniel Boone, nor even in the present, but rather in the future.
Sleep, rest of nature, O sleep, most gentle of the divinities, peace of the soul, thou at whose presence care disappears, who soothest hearts wearied with daily employments, and makest them strong again for labour!
I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
If the world were to end tomorrow and we could choose to save only one thing as the explanation and memorial to who we were, then we couldn't do better than the Natural History Museum, although it wouldn't contain a single human. The systematic Linnean order, the vast inquisitiveness and range of collated knowledge and beauty would tell all that is the best of us.
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