The man who runs the best restaurant in the world cannot afford his own home. He lives in an airy and light rented apartment in the old part of Copenhagen and cycles to work, pedaling through the streets with his 4-year-old daughter tucked cozily in his bike cart as he tries to get her to school on time. After dropping her off, he stops at a nearby coffee bar to down an espresso and a yogurt that will be his sole meal until his restaurant's staff dinner.
By now René Redzepi, the chef at Noma, could have TV deals and restaurants opening up in the world's major cities — and certainly a house in his own name — but that is not the kind of ambition that drives the 34-year-old Dane. Where many leading chefs seek to build empires, Redzepi wants only to dig deeper into his immediate surroundings. This helps explain why he is standing in his restaurant kitchen offering a skeptical patron not some truffle-covered delicacy from France or a pricey bit of sea urchin from Japan but a plate of scuttling Danish ants. "They're delicious," he says, "and they're Danish."
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do danish eat ants?
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