{"id":511,"date":"2012-09-27T01:12:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T23:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tor.dk\/?p=511"},"modified":"2012-12-03T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T00:02:08","slug":"its-a-kind-kind-of-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tor.dk\/en\/2012\/09\/27\/its-a-kind-kind-of-world\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s a kind kind of world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Video of a talk on how we see the world: Today \u2013 as an enemy to be controlled by our technology. Tomorrow \u2013 as a friend to be explored by our appetite. From a symposium for chefs, here is a story about a forager in a kindergarden.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The world is not a desert, devoid of edible stuff. It is a welcoming, blossoming and rich world full of plants, animals and insects that we can eat as food. But we seem to have forgotten what is there. We have forgotten that we are natives belonging to this world.<\/p>\n

We treat the world as if it was hostile and unfriendly. Our technology reflects that attitude. We try to control the world because we are afraid of it. That is a major mistake. We have to learn that it is a kind kind of world.<\/p>\n

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A kind kind of world<\/em> was my punchline in my opening talk at this summers’ MAD Food Symposium on Refshale\u00f8en in Copenhagen, July 1-2 2012. Some 500 chefs and food people from all over the world gathered to discuss the future of food under the theme of appetite. Rene Redzepi from restaurant noma <\/a>is the convener of this spectacular annual event.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0\u00a0Audience going MAD<\/em><\/p>\n

My talk this year exemplified the kindness of the world \u00a0by the story of a foraging tour with the kindergarten Skovbo<\/a> from Taarb\u00e6k, north of Copenhagen and British forager<\/a> Miles Irving<\/a>. The extraordinary experience of seeing the edibility of the wild plants of the world \u00a0through the eyes of kids developed my thinking into three basic “kindergarden rules” for how to go about the world:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Everything is everywhere <\/em>(the world is rich)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Go look<\/em> (we are blind)<\/p>\n

\u2022 Eat together\u00a0<\/em>(we need to share)<\/p>\n

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British forager Miles Irving speaking at Mad 1<\/em><\/p>\n

The videos of this summers’ talks from chefs and other explorers of the dealing \u00a0food of the planet are now up at the website Madfood.co<\/a>. The site is rich in great talks also from \u00a0last year. New videos from this years’ talks are added on a daily basis with half the talks up by now \u2013 with my kindergarden stories here:<\/p>\n