Tuesday 8 March has the Faculty of Life Sciences turning 153. At the birthday party, a world-renowned chef Claus Meyer will open the students\u2019 eyes \u2013 and mouths \u2013 to the best of culinary Denmark.<\/p>\n
Claus Meyer is not only an honorary associate professor at the Department of Gastronomy and Health but also the co-founder of Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant recently voted the best in the world.<\/p>\n
He is known as an agitator for \u2018The New Nordic Cuisine Movement\u2019, which aims to minimize the use of non-local agricultural produce, hereby promoting environment-friendly food consumption.<\/p>\n
\u00bbHaving potatoes and meat with every meal, Danes do not eat healthy at all,\u00ab Meyer says.<\/p>\n
But \u00bbif we\u2019re going to have a more beautiful food culture, we need to eat local produce,\u00ab he elaborates.<\/p>\n
According to Meyer, the current food culture is not particularly good for people and definitely not for the environment. Yet he believes that every place in the world can promote a healthy food culture by adopting local foodstuffs.<\/p>\n
\u00bbThere is a beautiful message hidden in the Nordic landscape which speaks about what can or cannot be eaten,\u00ab as Claus Meyer puts it.<\/p>\n
Tuesday, Meyer will let 1,500 students in on this secret and teach them how to be part of The Nordic Cuisine Movement on a student budget.<\/p>\n
According to the Faculty of Life Sciences, the faculty will spend a total of DKK 60,000 on giving the students this memorable gustatory experience.<\/p>\n
If you are a Life Science student, it is all happening tomorrow morning Tuesday from 8.15 to 10.00 in Marmorhallen, 40 Thorvaldsensvej, Frederiksberg.<\/p>\n
uni-avis@adm.ku.dk<\/p>\n