mad-symposium

Noma chef René Redzepi and his team are bringing back the world’s most famous food conference. After taking a year off, the two-day MAD symposium is scheduled to take place in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 28 and 29. There will also be a one-day pop-up event in Sydney, Australia, on April 3.Redzepi’s crew writes in…

For the fourth consecutive summer, the food world’s brightest and most inventive minds – from chefs to farmers to journalists and politicians — will gather in Copenhagen for the MAD Symposium. The two-day conference, led by Noma chef René Redzepi, will be co-curated by Brazilian chef Alex Atala (you may recall his provocative “Death Happens”…

“I’ve never seen chefs this nervous about meeting somebody,” joked Lucky Peach editor Chris Ying in his introduction for Alain Ducasse at the MAD Symposium in Copenhagen. It was a bit of a fanboy moment when Ying joined David Chang, Daniel Patterson and René Redzepi to talk about “Being Alain Ducasse.” Also covered: death, fear,…

“I’m going to get into it, man,” says Roy Choi to a packed house at last month’s MAD Symposium in Copenhagen (read our reports from Day 1 and Day 2-3). “With so many paved roads, farmers markets, great weather, restaurants and so much tree to smoke, we should be happy as clams,” he jokes. “But…

One of the most inspiring stories coming out of the recent MAD Symposium in Denmark — the theme was "Guts" in all its meanings — was that of Ahmed Jama, a Somali chef whose restaurant is in strife-torn Mogadishu. After sharing his harrowing tale of building his restaurant The Village and having it blown up…

[caption id="attachment_70368" align="alignnone" width="700" ] René Redzepi closed out the third MAD Symposium with a bang, with help from some heavy-hitter friends.[/caption] Coffee is a requirement at MAD. It’s the thing the throngs of symposium attendees stream to after disembarking the Copenhagen canal boat transporting them to another day in the cherry red circus tent.…

During the afternoon of the second day of the MAD Symposium last weekend, René Redzepi, David Chang and other members of the organizing team changed their green and white MAD t-shirts to ominous black ones that read “Death Happens.” No one was sure what they signified but everyone was curious and suspected it might have…

For the past two summers, some of the brightest minds in the food world — chefs, farmers, journalists, bakers, scientists and politicians — have travelled to Copenhagen to attend the MAD Symposium, a three-day conference spearheaded by Noma chef René Redzepi and his trusted lieutenant Ali Kurshat Altinsoy. Our reporter Jody Eddy is on the…

For the past two summers, some of the brightest minds in the food world — including chefs, farmers, journalists, bakers, scientists and politicians — have travelled to Copenhagen to attend the MAD Symposium, a three-day conference spearheaded by Noma chef René Redzepi and his trusted lieutenant Ali Kurshat Altinsoy. Our reporter Jody Eddy is on…

For the third consecutive summer, the food world’s brightest and most inventive minds – from chefs to farmers to journalists and politicians — will gather in Copenhagen for the MAD Symposium. The two-day conference, led by Noma chef René Redzepi and co-curated this year by Momofuku boss David Chang, will have a theme of “Guts.”…

For the past two summers some of the brightest minds in the food world — including chefs, farmers, journalists, bakers, scientists and politicians — have travelled to Copenhagen to attend the MAD Symposium, a three-day conference spearheaded by Noma chef René Redzepi and his trusted lieutenant Ali Kurshat Altinsoy. We’ve been on the ground for…

A video of Ferran Adrià's keynote address at July's 2012 MAD Symposium in Copenhagen was released today, and boy is our Spanish rusty! (Don't worry, he has a translator). Food Republic contributor Jody Eddy reported from the two-day conference in July assembled by chef René Redzepi of the famed restaurant Noma — you can see…

Enrique Olvera is the chef of Pujol in Mexico City, one of the country's most celebrated contemporary restaurants. At the recent MAD Symposium in Denmark, his presentation (Rotten, Fried Bananas) examined the role of tradition in the contemporary kitchen and the importance of examining ingredients and techniques in new ways. Here, he discusses the emerging…