Food - Scandisrael
August 14, 2018At the end of 2017, I decided to pursue a long time passion and turn my love for cooking into a more serious aspect in my professional life. I have been involved in cooking through my work as a food photographer and stylist for many years but never as the mind behind the food. Since I moved to Denmark in 2011, I was driven to explore and reconnect to my culinary roots from Israel. I suppose I was a little nostalgic and food was a way to connect and share it with people. I was watching the Israeli cuisine form into something beautiful, unique and coherent at the same time that the Scandinavian cuisine was modernising and reinventing itself. Both the Israeli and Scandinavian cuisines exploded world wide thanks to super talented people deeply dedicated to understanding where they came from. Living in Denmark I found my self in the middle of this avalanche of gorgeous food, representing so well these two very different societies. Slowly and without initially noticing I created my own strange little world where those two very different cuisines co existed side by side without clashing. Maybe it happened because I was free to experiment without any rulebooks, outside the restaurant business and far away from purists and critical mouthes. I managed to discover that yes smoked mackerel can be eaten with tahini. I have now cooked for many Scandinavians, who allowed me with their open-mindedness and curiosity to feed them with dishes and combinations I could never imagine before living in Denmark. In turn it made me curious about their culture and I became a better food creator since. I now feel comfortable sharing this knowledge with the Danish public in the form of a popup restaurant in the Autumn of 2018, followed by a recipe book that I am hoping to launch in 2019. Dates will be announced as soon as possible…