Welcome to the Dave Chang Show, part of the Ring of Podcast Network presented by Major

Domo Media.

Today's guest is the world famous one of the greatest chefs ever, René Ritzepi of

Restaurant Noma in Copenhagen.

He was with us in New York probably a couple months ago on his New York leg of the Noma

book for fermentation that's out right now.

Highly encourage you guys if you are a professional cook, you should definitely think about

purchasing it.

If you're a home cook, it gives you insight into the intense organization and rigor to

do a state-of-the-art world class fermentation program because they're like an open source

book in terms of information at Noma.

We go into detail a little bit about how they got to this point and a little bit at the

end about what it's like to operate Noma some 15 plus years later.

There's a lot of backstory.

I think we mentioned Mark Verrat and Michelle Braw and Farhan Adria.

In some ways, I believe that what Noma is doing is sort of the legacy of those guys.

They're still highly influential chefs, Mark Verrat and Michelle Braw from France, Farhan

Adria, Argoly, these are three of them biggest, most famous chefs in the world.

And while René didn't work for Michelle Braw or Mark Verrat, these chefs, he did work

for Farhan Adria.

He did work for Thomas Keller.

The best way I could describe some of the food that's happening at Noma right now is

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