How Does Noma Come About?

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In the 90s, Renee Zellweger thought she was going to cook French food in Denmark. She worked at El Bully and The French Laundry before becoming Noma's head chef. "I really do believe that cooking at nearly every level except the absolute most rarefied is a craft, not an art"

Chef René Redzepi said his Copenhagen restaurant, Noma, deemed the best in the world, isn't sustainable and will close next year. But if an establishment charging top dollar can't survive, what restaurant can? KCRW's Evan Kleiman explains.

This episode was produced by Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Robert Mounsey, and hosted by Noel King.

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