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Connecting with Nature Through Your Food with Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen, Forager
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Connecting with Nature Through Your Food with Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen, Forager

Our guest is Mikkel-Lau Mikkelsen, head of the foraging program at MAD, a non-profit founded by Chef Rene Redzepi of Restaurant Noma to inspire and empower the global hospitality industry to create sustainable change and transform food systems for the future.

Foraging is something I am super interested in, but have always been a little hesitant to engage in directly.

This conversation answered all of my concerns. In the episode, Mikkel-Lau outlines his background growing up in Copenhagen and finding a connection with nature through more of a kitchen out approach.

We discuss how our industrialized food system creates what he calls interfaces that keep us separate from our food, and that foraging can enable a direct connection that can influence how we think about the food we consume, wherever it comes from.

We also talk about the method of foraging and the app that MAD developed that combines both the deep knowledge of some of the best foragers in Denmark with some of the best chefs in Copenhagen to give you a one stop shop for getting started on your foraging journey.

Huge, huge thanks to Mikkel-Lau for taking time to chat. I think his work and the work of MAD more generally is incredibly important and I am glad he was able to take some time away to share his connection with nature through foraging with us. Make sure to check out the links below for where to download the app, follow Mikel-Lau and his foraging activities on social media and also where to subscribe to MAD's epic email newsletter.

Links

VILD MAD - https://vildmad.dk/dk

VILD MAD App - https://apps.apple.com/dk/app/vild-mad/id1230602644?l=da

VILD MAD on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/vildmaddk/

MAD Newsletter - https://madfeed.co/

Rene Redzepi on the Launch of VILD MAD - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1xTPi8KA9A

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