After getting in from Sunday service, I had a short window of selfish time before my family's weekly Walking Dead session. I settled in to watch the first of the David Kinch episodes of "Mind of a Chef." It's one of the few television shows I try to keep up with as these days my spare …
Open Letter to the Chefs of Tomorrow
In my post Monday, I included some of the discourse of the New Nordic Kitchen Manifesto that has helped direct and align the efforts of Rene Redzepi at Copenhagen's Noma. I also underscored the impact of the Manifesto on our own cuisine here in the Lowcountry if we were to apply the same precepts. As …
Finding Noma
Big news from Copenhagen this week: I admit freely to an unabashed chef crush on Rene Redzepi. In the process of collaborating on a contemporary iteration of Nordic cuisine, he has broadened the landscape from which as chefs we may draw inspiration from. Rene Redzepi is an innovator and a leader. He was one of …