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Bullseye with Jesse Thorne is a production of maximum fun.org and is distributed by NPR. It's bullseye, I'm Jesse Thorne. Now, every now and then, we bring guests onto our show for a special segment called,

I wish I made that.

Now, usually when we do this segment, we talk with, you know, a writer about a movie that they wish they'd made or a sitcom, a stand-up comic

wishes that they'd worked on. But today we aren't doing that. We're talking about food

instead. Our guest is Renee R. Zeepi, one of the greatest chefs in the world

and he's going to talk about a dish he wishes he'd invented. Well elaborate on that in a

second I promise. But first introducing Rizepi. He founded the restaurant Noma in Copenhagen.

Noma has for decades been one of the best restaurants in the world.

They serve a fine dining version of Nordic cuisine, and that in and of itself isn't revolutionary,

but their approach to it was. The menu is fiercely local, sometimes foraged, usually vegetable-focused.

The kinds of things that you see on menus pretty much everywhere these days, except that

when they open Noma it was a new old idea. Red Zeppy recently announced opened Noma, it was a new old idea.

Red Zeppy recently announced that Noma would close later this year.

He's followed that news with a little bit of a career pivot to TV host.

His show Omnivore just premiered on Apple TV Plus. In each episode, Rizepi talks about one ingredient,

maybe tuna or rice or bananas, how those ingredients became ingredients and how society and capitalism have changed those ingredients.

Sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse.

Like, for example, on the episode about Chili Peppers, he explores the factory where Tabasco is made.

I grew up between Macedonia and one of the least spicy countries in the world, Denmark.

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