You could say Andy Gaskin is a nomad. Born in London in 1962, his cooking journey has taken him from London to Anguilla with stops among others in Malta, Porto Cervo, Rome, Paris, Monte Carlo, Sicily, Africa, Thailand, China, the Pacific island of Bora Bora and more recently in Croatia. His love of travel has given him the opportunity to move and discover new places, get new ideas and create recipes and memories along the way. In the years he has been inspired by Professor Hubert from his culinary school, who taught him the basics, Marco Pierre White, whose dedication to top quality and perfection he immensely appreciates and Heston Blumenthal, with his creativity and constant re-examination of all the culinary aspects. Andy Gaskin does not consider himself as a cook or chef but rather a hyperactive artist with food as his medium and cooking as his chief technique. He describes his own style of cooking as innovative, light and inspired by the Mediterranean, with … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2018
Vegetarian menu is biggest challenge of my entire career – René Redzepi
Last week, Noma 2.0 turned fully vegetarian as the first ever full vegetarian menu was served at the restaurant. Guests at the Copenhagen restaurant were served a full vegetarian menu from start to finish. Chef René Redzepi has said on his Instagram Stories feed that the vegetarian menu is without a shadow of doubt the biggest challenge of his entire career. "We are very happy even though it was difficult because there is something that feels like you are cooking the future by choosing the plant kingdom," Redzepi said. "We will see," he said. Redzepi and his team have often worked with vegetables but this is the first time that they have no fish or meat at the end of the menu.The chef said that they had been working like mad people for three months for this menu. Noma last week moved from the Ocean Menu to the Vegetable menu where they will be exploring the plant kingdom and everything that is edible, cooking with what they find underground, above ground, near the water and … [Read more...]