Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine

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Rene Redzepi has been widely credited with re-inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recognized as the #1 best in the world by the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant awards in April 2010 after receiving the 'Chef's Choice' award in 2009. Redzepi operates at the cutting edge of gourmet cuisine, combining an unrelenting creativity and a remarkable level of craftsmanship with an inimitable and innate knowledge of the produce of his Nordic terroir. At Noma, which Redzepi created from a ...

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Rene Redzepi has been widely credited with re-inventing Nordic cuisine. His Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, was recognized as the #1 best in the world by the San Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant awards in April 2010 after receiving the 'Chef's Choice' award in 2009. Redzepi operates at the cutting edge of gourmet cuisine, combining an unrelenting creativity and a remarkable level of craftsmanship with an inimitable and innate knowledge of the produce of his Nordic terroir. At Noma, which Redzepi created from a derelict eighteenth-century warehouse in 2003 after previously working at both elBulli and The French Laundry, diners are served exquisite concoctions, such as 'Newly-Ploughed Potato Field' or 'The snowman from Jukkasjarvi', all painstakingly constructed to express their amazing array of Nordic ingredients. His search for ingredients involves foraging amongst local fields for wild produce, sourcing horse-mussels from the Faroe Islands and the purest possible water from Greenland. Redzepi has heightened the culinary philosophy of seasonally and regionally sourced sustainable ingredients to an unprecedented level, and in doing so has created an utterly delicious cuisine. At the age of 32, Redzepi is one of the most influential chefs in the world.

Noma: Time and Place in Nordic Cuisine will offer an exclusive insight into the food, philosophy and creativity of Rene Redzepi. It will reveal the first behind the scenes look at the restaurant, Noma, and will feature over 90 recipes as well as excerpts from Redzepi's diary from the period leading up to the opening of the restaurant and texts on some the most enigmatic of Noma's suppliers. The book will include 200 new specially commissioned color photographs of the dishes, unique local ingredients and landscapes from across the Nordic region. It will also include a foreward by the artist Olafur Eliasson.

Winner of the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for Cooking from a Professional Point of View and the 2011 James Beard Foundation Award for Photography

Winner of the 2011 IACP Cookbook Award for Food Photography & Styling and the 2011 IACP Cookbook Award for Design

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René Redzepi, the head chef of Copenhagen's Noma and the author of this book, is perched at the very peak of world cuisine. This year, his restaurant received the 2010 San Pellegrino Award, the prestigious honor designating the best restaurant in the world. Redzepi has been credited with reinventing new Nordic cuisine, making it, in the words of Restaurant Magazine, "a raw and visceral dining experience." Redzepi's consistently strong emphasis on "place and time" or, in American terms "local and fresh" make his philosophy and this book's 90+ recipes especially amenable to stateside audiences. The gourmet cookbook of the year.

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Those unable to secure a seat at the World's Best Restaurant 2010, the 12-table Noma near Copenhagen, will have to settle for this massive study of the restaurant and its chef, 32-year-old Rene Redzepi. Even a casual flip will reveal why Redzepi's imaginative combinations and fiercely local approach to sourcing vaulted him over stalwarts like El Bulli: sous vide reindeer shoulder served with celery root rolled in hay ashes and a wild herb gel, a whimsical meringue-based snowman atop buckthorn mousse and carrot sorbet, and a carrot cake-coated ligonberry sorbet served with hay cream are but a few of his spectacularly innovative dishes. While few home cooks will have the equipment, ingredients, or patience to attempt Musk Ox and Fresh Young Garlic or Milk Skin and Caramelized Garlic, fans of molecular gastronomy will have a field day with this ode to meticulous construction and presentation. In the end, whether Redzepi's almost ridiculously complicated dishes reveal a pretentious chef or a passionate one making the most of his ingredients doesn't matter. This is an envelope-pushing exercise that deserves respect. 200 color photos.
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"Noma is an international sensation." - Frank Bruni, The New York Times

"Rene is a master locavore -- the most intense and ingenious I've ever met." - Jeffrey Steingarten, VOGUE

"The hottest topic in the food world. While Noma is all about Nordic cuisine, its philosophy is about the cuisine of wherever you are." - Mark Bittman, Kitchen Daily

"A gorgeous cookbook . . .spectacular. NOMA is going to influence another generation of cooks." - The Atlantic

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780714859033
  • Publisher: Phaidon Press, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 10/4/2010
  • Pages: 368
  • Sales rank: 100,264
  • Product dimensions: 10.10 (w) x 11.70 (h) x 1.60 (d)

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