A meals critic chronicles four years spent traveling with René Redzepi, the renowned chef of Noma, in search of one of the most tantalizing flavors the world provides.

Hungry is a reserve about not only the food cravings for food, but also for risk, for reinvention, for creative breakthroughs, as well as for connection. Sense stuck in his work and home life, article writer Jeff Gordinier occurred right into a fateful ending up in Danish chef René Redzepi, whose cafe, Noma, has been called the very best in the globe. A restless about Hungry perfectionist, Redzepi was near the top of his game but was seeking to tear everything down, to shutter his cafe and lay out for fresh places, flavors, and recipes. This is actually the tale of the subsequent four many years of globe-trotting culinary adventure, with Gordinier becoming a member of Redzepi as his Sancho Panza. In the jungle from the Yucatán peninsula, Redzepi and his comrades go off-road searching for an ideal taco. In Sydney, they forage for sea rocket and sandpaper figs in suburban parks and on surf-lashed seashores. On a sail boat in the Arctic Circle, a lone fisherman manuals them to what may or may not be his key cache from the world’s finest sea urchins. And back in Copenhagen, the quiet canal-lined town where Redzepi began everything, he plans the resurrection of his restaurant on the unlikely site of the garbage-filled lot. Along the way, visitors match Redzepi’s merry band of close friends and collaborators, including acclaimed chefs such as Danny Bowien, Kylie Kwong, Rosio Sánchez, David Chang, and Enrique Olvera. Hungry can be a memoir, a travelogue, a portrait of the chef, and a chronicle of the moment when daredevil cooking became one of the most thrilling and groundbreaking type of artistry.

‘Gordinier calls for us into the fabulously obsessive realm of the world’s many interesting chef–and he will it with the tone of voice of the poet.’ RUTH REICHL, writer of Save Me the Plums