René Redzepi, co-owner and chef of Noma, the twice-crowned “Best Restaurant in the World,” visited Yale in October as the guest of Jim Scott, co-director of the Program in Agrarian Studies. While on campus, the not-quite 34-year-old gave a public address on his love affair with food and spoke of his very unlikely entry into the culinary profession.
Mark Bomford (left), director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and René Redzepi (right), co-owner and chef of Noma, tour the mid-autumn crops of the Yale Farm, and discuss a challenge humans have faced ever since our forebears migrated north: What do you eat in winter?