Extravagant food for invisible guests

Extravagant food for invisible guests

Nikolaos Strangas who is the winner of best dessert 2011is participated in the Copenhagen Cooking festival.

Copenhagen hosts a cultural food festival, its preprations started a year ago, is running during Feburary, but where are the people?

Unawareness of people about the festival

Although the festival is well publicized,  many people, like Peter Mærschalk who is a student at the Copenhagen University,  in the streets are not well informed about the festival. “… I do not know about the Cooking festival…” Mærschalk said.

An additional reason that might be the cause for the low number of attendees is the high price ranges of the food. For instance, Catarina Josef, a local resident, complains,  “It is very expensive for me to pay around 500 Danish Kroner for a meal.”

Concerning the activities of the festival, One of them, is the one held by Hotel Ibsens for kids. The kids were supposed to decorate  their own cakes and play together. Unfortunately, no one attended this joyful event. “Many people do not know much about the event and we prepared everything for the kids but they are not here” Anna Boel, an Ibsens Hotel staff said.

Background of the festival

The ‘Wonder-Cool’Festivals start during the month of Febraruy which consists of a series of festivals such as art, design, music, food, and fashion. One of these festivals is the Copenhagen Cooking festival.

The Copenhagen Cooking festival focuses on Nordic cuisines. This festival is unique than the previous ones; since its program includes several entertaining and engaging activities while enjoying the quality of the food offered.

Copenhagen has a series of festivals this February and that is under the umbrella of ‘Wonder-Cool’ Festival which includes a number of crossovers of cultural events such as art, design, music, food, and fashion.

“Copenhagen Cooking festival is beyond being just a festival because it is a food culture which grabs people from different countries and that is ourmaingoal; it also investigates the platforms of our ordinary food,” said Bech.

As for the food, Noma is the best restaurant from Bech’s point of view as it attracts people the most and it is always in the international press. For example, a lunch fish safari actually takes a lot of attention to cycle around because it is a creative idea and people want to try something new and adventurous.

Example of the participants of the festival

One of the participants of the festival is Nikolaos Strangas, the owner of CakeAway. He is the winner of the best dessert 2011. It is the first time for him to participate in the festival. He participated in order to change the mentality about desserts and to “prioritize” the dessert among food.

“I want to create a new trend because dessert is a trend” Strangas said. The event was took place at his shop on Feb16 at 19.30 p.m. According to Strangas, 8 people were attending and each person paid 695 DKR. There was no media attending the event becuase it was private party with candlelight.

“Food is to socialize and to talk with people and that’s how Food can combine culture,” Strangas said. He also said that his friend is going to play a violin and strangas with his staff  would make the cakes in front of the guests.

He thinks that people eat sugar becuase it tastes good. He is also aware that Danes wants to be healthy and he knows well how to make desserts healthy.

“What in here isn’t healthy? It has organic cream in it, organic cane sugar, organic nuts, and organic fruits. Tell me: What is not healthy?” he said.

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Copenhagen cooking festival: sea food is the main dish

The Amager Fiskehus with candles in front of the restaurant filled with people at the time of the event.

Lars Ahrensberg, The top chef of the the Amager Fiskehus restaurant is explaining different kinds of sea food.

Amager Fiskhus provided samples of sea food which is on the top of the festival’s menu for free to all the the guests.

Lars Ahrensberg, the top chef of the Amager Fiskhus shop said that the main cuisine of the Copenhagen Cooking festival in the winter edition is the Nordic cuisine and sea food. Ahrensberg considers himself special in the eggs of the fish.

“It is the first time for me to participate in the festival and it is very important for me because it is a worldwide festival,” Ahrensberg said.

Amager Fiskhus provides other restaurants that are participated in the festival with sea food and eggs of the fish. One of restaurants is Noma.