dubious. alessandro: did you ever eat moss before? anthony: no. that is incredible. alessandro: wow. anthony: there s no way that this is going to look convincingly delicious on tv, but it is really delicious. alessandro porcelli is italian, living in denmark. he worked at noma before starting cook it raw, the roaming boy scout camp for the world s best chefs. alessandro: i met rene in 2004. basically, the restaurant was just opened. rene: four on six. kitchen staff: yes. anthony: ten years after noma s inception, rene is arguably the most famous dane since hamlet. and so it s happily ever after, right? not quite. alessandro: it s funny that all this happened actually in copenhagen. you have all these rules about where you have these guidelines where you never brag about yourself. it s all understated. anthony: the law of which discourages attention seeking is
alessandro: there is the hard thing, yeah. to change the way people think about food. not just the 35 people that can afford to come eat here at noma. soren: thank you for joining. rene: thank you chef. anthony: it s magnificent. (music throughout) you got to get up early. (female speaker) give the gifts that create a lifetime of outdoor memories from bass pro shops and cabela s black friday sale. like hobbs creek men s flannel shirts for only $10.
rene: when i had my kids, two rooms down, that s where the future king had his kids. anthony: there s no like beyoncé suite? rene: no. we re all there. we re all the same and that makes people more happy. anthony: it looks like a nightmare to me. by the way, it would be helpful to point out this show is not about denmark. it s not about copenhagen. i m here for one man rene: food this way. anthony: and one restaurant rene: then we can start. kitchen staff: yes chef! rene: go, go, go. anthony: noma is the place where rene redzepi pretty much changed the whole world of gastronomy. rene: let s go. anthony: for three years in a row, it was named the world s best restaurant by a jury of chefs and food writers who presumably know such things. rene: come on with those two. they re sitting waiting. come on. noma cook: nordic coconuts. also at the same time, this little bouquet of flowers.
that s a perfect dish. allesandro: perfect. perfect dish. anthony: i want more of those. risenga: so here you go. anthony: thank you. so there s nobody in charge? risenga: i am. i am. i m in charge. the only problem is that everybody else is, too. anthony: it seems utopian. joker: we have the same problems as anybody, but we try to solve them in a different way. and one of the ways we try to solve the sort of challenges is by embracing people as much as we can. and trying to make space as much as we can. rene: do we have two peas ready for table four? can i go with that now? noma chefs: yes. anthony: extraordinary. i was reading something you wrote that s very un-american in its concept, which is don t be afraid to fail. rene: yeah. when we did this dish, to us it was a very big moment. because we burnt it by mistake. and then we thought, okay, it s
that my kids get to walk around the streets without worrying about being run over by a car. joker: there s no hot rods and no cars running in the streets. it s like a little village! it s very secure. anthony: are you a hippie? risenga: he is. noma chef: you have two eggs smoking now? chefs: yes, chef. risenga: so right down there we have pusher street, which is probably the most famous part of christiania. anthony: the green section, right? where you can buy weed and hash oil, hashish. joker: yeah. anthony: i would never do that as a responsible journalist but i m interested in investigating that. pusher street, it s a beloved institution here, you are free to use an array of cannabis products. theoretically by the way, marijuana is like, not legal in denmark. risenga: but there s great tolerance for marijuana here and i think that s because it isn t really harmful. people who smoke too much, maybe they pass out. anthony: right. oh! quail egg cooked in hay. wow,