Fully booked months in advance and popular with celebrities, Noma has not only elevated Danish cuisine to new heights, it has also given the country a lot of very valuable publicity. - Starting from scratch -Denmark's culinary successes have been attributed paradoxically to the country having no gastronomic traditions to speak of. As a result, Danish chefs have learned to make do with what they have at hand and tend to have an interest in organic foods. And it's mostly all organic, with a sharp focus on responsible consumerism: more than half of Danes buy organic foods at least once a week, according to Organic Denmark. "We use the bread and the peel for the chickens and they fertilise the ground in our garden," Jorgensen says.

Source: Bangkok Post May 19, 2019 02:37 UTC