The Nordic kitchen on the worldmap

The Nordic kitchen on the world map

The idea behind the Nordic kitchen was from the beginning to get Denmark and the other northern countries on the gastronomic world map. Things that are on the gastronomic world map are the most interesting food/dishes and restaurants around the world. 

It was all started by the Danish cook and baker Claus Meyer, who had been a famous tv cook in Denmark for 

some years from 1991-99 with ‘’Meyers kitchen’’ and again from 2007 with ‘’Food in the north – taste of Denmark’’.   

Claus Meyer has a very long list of experiences from the professional kitchen. He has written a lot of books about special ingredients, cooking and so on. Furthermore he has received a lot of prizes for his commitment. To mention some of them there is for example: the vegetable prize, the fruit grower of the year - for the establishment of Fruit from Lilleø, winner of the canteen prize for the year 2010 etc. He is specialized in several different kinds of cooking but his main project in these days, is the Nordic Kitchen which was attended to be something totally new. Something that the world haven´t seen so far. 

This is where the history of NOMA begins. In November 2003 a partnership between two men (Claus Meyer and René Redzepi) became a well-known restaurant all over the world, when they together created new Nordic food in the kitchen of NOMA.

On behalf of Claus Meyer NOMA was created, so that the world could see all the delicious ingredients that we have in the north. And people could try a new type of cooking, with different and also some atypical ingredients that they were not used to eat. One of the visions that Claus Meyer had, was to keep and/or cultivate our food articles and also to change or improve the way we produce them.

In the year of 2010 NOMA got the prize as the world’s best restaurant – this was not the main purpose for the partners but suddenly all the hard work seemed like it was all worth it.