René Redzepi, the young chef who elevated Noma in Copenhagen to its standing as best restaurant in the world in the S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants rankings, has pioneered a cuisine dubbed “New Nordic.”

While it may be impolite to wonder aloud about “Old Nordic,” the new cuisine is built on local ingredients like sweet green strawberries, musk ox and flowers harvested from the seashore, which tell a Danish tale of “time and place,” according to Redzepi.