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.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun.
I am sailing with thee through the dizzy sky! How beautiful thou art!
The moon was a sharply defined crescent and the sky was perfectly clear. The stars shone with such fierce, contained brilliance that it seemed absurd to call the night dark.
The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too.
When I was 7 and went to the zoo with my second-grade class, I saw chimpanzee eyes for the first time - the eyes of an unhappy animal, all alone, locked in a bare, concrete-floored, iron-barred cage in one of the nastier, old-fashioned zoos. I remember looking at the chimp, then looking away.
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