Rene Redzepi Quotes

When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

When people are grownups they’re grown ups. They make their own decisions you know.

When I turned 15, I left school having failed to make the minimum grade. With little direction I enlisted at the local culinary school. Here the academic demands were less rigorous.

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.