On your extraordinary doorstep

August 13, 2012 — Copenhagen, doorstep, Drogor beach, Noma, Rene Redzepi, sea arrowgrass

Chef Rene Redzepi runs Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant lauded as the best in the world for the past three years. Rather than ship in exotic ingredients from around the world, he did something simple. He looked at what was around him in a way that nobody else had done, simple ingredients on his doorstep, and he made them world class.

He says “We foraged for ingredients – whether it was along the shoreline in the hedgerows or deeper into the forest. We found all these insane flavours like rosehip berries on Dragor beach. When ripe they taste just like sundried tomatoes. And sea arrowgrass, which has the flavour of coriander but grows out of rotting seaweed”.

He turned trash to treasure just by looking at it in a different way. What’s on your extraordinary doorstep?

Have a curious day.