Friday, October 16, 2015

Noma and the quest for new (fermented) flavours

Lars Williams and Arielle Robertson

Lars Williams and Arielle Robertson Lars Williams and Arielle Robertson Lars Williams and Arielle Robertson Lars Williams and Arielle Robertson

Cooking is not enough anymore. At Noma, the two-Michelin-starred Copenhagen restaurant that is reinventing Nordic cuisine, the real task is finding new flavours. 

Noma's R&D chef Lars Williams and flavour scientist Arielle Johnson have given WIRED 2015 attendees  a  rundown of how they go about building new dishes, taste by taste. 

"We think about a dish as a complete sentence, "Williams said. "And we start from zero, we have to come up with the letters--with building blocks, basic flavours." This quest is a strange mix of "cookery and scientific investigation."

By: Gian Volpicelli,

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