If You See How A Plant Grows

Chefs Have A New Opportunity - And Perhaps Even An Obligation - To Inform The Public About What Is Good To Eat, And Why.

I Started To Change. It Was Sort Of A Restaurant Mid-life Crisis, You Could Say. I Lost A Lot Of Confidence, Not So Much As A Father Or As A Friend, But As A Boss, As A Chef That's To Make Decisions Throughout The Day All The Time. I Just Slowly Started Burning Out. Once You Lose Your Confidence Like That, You Start Being Angry In The Kitchen. I Couldn't Recognize Myself Anymore. I Started Writing The Journal. It Was Never Meant To Be A Book, But The Editor At Phaidon Read Parts Of It. As Editors Do, I Guess.

I Think That In Our Part Of The World, Scandinavia, We Are One Of The Pioneers Of Showing That Gastronomy Can Be Something - High Gastronomy Can Be Something Very, Very Present And Doesnt Have To Involve, You Know, What Is Perceived As The Normal Luxury Items That Belong In A High Gastronomy Restaurant.

But When Spring And Summer Happens, It's Intuition. Everything Is Based On Intuition. There's Not Too Much Time To Overthink, Over-complicate. Those Wild Strawberries, They Might Be There For Two Days.

If You See Someone In The Kitchen That Has Good Hands And A Quick Brain, Then You Need That Person To Be In The Front Of Everything.