• René Redzepi's MAD Symposium Will Return To Copenhagen. Here's How To Apply.

    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…

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  • Watch This Trailer Of The Noma Documentary

    The most celebrated restaurant in the world, Noma, not only put Scandinavian cuisine on the map, but also altered the meanings of "foraging" and "sourcing" food. Now, you can see the operations of the restaurant for yourself in the film, Noma: My Perfect Storm. Directed by documentary filmmaker Pierre Deschamps, the movie focuses on chef and co-owner…

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  • Rene Redzepi Talks Noma 2.0 In New Short Film

    One of the big stories in the food world this week is Rene Redzepi's decision to close Noma, one of the world's top-rated restaurants, next year. Now it's being revealed that he intends to reopen Noma next year in a new Copenhagen location, to evolve the restaurant into a true Nordic culinary laboratory. The staff will grow their own…

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  • These Are Australia's 18 Best New Restaurants

    As we’ve reported several times before, Australia serves more than just bloomin' onions, shrimps on the barbie and whatever else is on the menu at Outback Steakhouse. The restaurant scene there is flourishing as a whole, and we even pondered whether the country is the next great venue for whiskey production back in 2012.Yesterday, national airline Qantas released…

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  • René Redzepi Made Sea Urchin Pie In Tokyo. WTF Is Sea Urchin Pie?

    [caption id="attachment_75467" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Behold: Creamy Japanese uni in pie form, courtesy of Noma's René Redzepi and his Tokyo pop-up.[/caption] When Copenhagen’s Noma was awarded the heady title of world’s best restaurant during a ceremony last April — the fourth time it earned the honor in five years — it once again anointed chef-owner…

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  • René Redzepi Shocked By The Deliciousness Of Slow-Cooked Pig Ears

    World-renowned Danish chef René Redzepi has been called a visionary. Often. We're talking about a guy who treats a two-year-old carrot like côte de boeuf at his acclaimed restaurant Noma in Copenhagen. So, it's quite striking to see the man who blows so many minds (red ants with crème fraîche, anyone?) seem entirely blown away…

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  • Here's How An Italian Chef Pronounces 'Worcestershire Sauce'

    What happens when an Italian YouTube chef with a heavy accent and a matching no-nonsense policy encounters a bottle of Worcestershire sauce? "We gonna use that wah-stah-shoo-shah!" decrees Orsara Recipes chef Pasquale Sciarappa. He doesn't know where this stuff comes from, but he does know he doesn't need it (and finally decides on the Italian…

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  • These Are Some Seriously Heady Days For The Restaurant Industry

    As we turn the calendar for the final time in 2014, food media types will begin to analyze the big events that have caused ripples across the industry. Looking at a couple of news beats over the weekend alone, however, it’s not a pebble but a giant boulder that has been tossed into the lake.…

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  • The Entire Staff Of Noma Is Learning Japanese Right Now. Why?

    When Copenhagen’s Noma was awarded the heady title of world’s best restaurant during a ceremony in April — the fourth time it earned the honor in five years — it once again anointed chef-owner René Redzepi as keeper of the most-exclusive reservation book on the planet. Reserving a table at Noma can be like scoring…

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  • Video: Justin Yu Talks Vietnamese Influence, Copenhagen Hype

    Earlier this year, we held the third annual Food Republic Interview Lounge at the W Austin during the Austin Food & Wine Festival. Ever since, we've been featuring video excerpts of the sessions with host Richard Martin. Next up is Justin Yu of Oxheart in Houston, Texas.  Justin Yu of Houston's Oxheart from Food Republic…

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  • A Day With Paul Qui At MAD 4 In Copenhagen

    Chef Paul Qui, of Austin's East Side King food trucks and the restaurant Qui attended MAD this year for the second time. The fourth iteration of the symposium in Copenhagen just wrapped up but not before we spent a day trailing Qui for the cachaça and fermented casava–infused ride. 9 a.m. Paul and his crew,…

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  • This Year's MAD Symposium Dates And Theme Are Announced

    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”…

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  • Video: Watch 500 Chefs Go Fanboy With Alain Ducasse At MAD 2013

    “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,…

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  • Here's What Happened On The Second And Final Day At MAD Symposium 2013

    [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.…

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  • Photos From Day 2 At The 2013 MAD Symposium

    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…

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  • Photos From Day 1 At The 2013 MAD Symposium

    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…

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  • MAD Symposium Announces Initial List Of Confirmed Speakers

    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.”…

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  • René Redzepi: Help Support MAD Symposium!

    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…

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  • Big Weekend: Margaret River Gourmet Escape

    “I love the fact that you're visiting a part of Australia that's not on the map usually. I guess this is the Napa Valley of Australia, although much more wild.” – Rene Redzepi In the past 10 years, Perth has changed from the most remote big city in the world to a small-scale metropolis with…

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