Rene Redzepi

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

I know every movement of my kitchen.

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.

We in the media have been guilty about not doing a better job of making people understand how really simple cooking is. We've made everyone feel like they have to be a chef.

I just had an idea that went right over my head.

When we first did 'Modernist Cuisine,' I think most people in cookbook publishing would have said, 'This is insane.'