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Noma and Redzepi: A Shocking Tale of Abuse

Podcast: Special Sauce with Ed Levine
Published: Mar 20, 2026
Duration seconds: 2819
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Summary

According The New York Times , Noma chef and co-owner René Redzepi physically and verbally abused more than thirty of his kitchen staff between 2010 and 2017. To find out what that means, I sat down with longtime restaurant critic Bill Addison of The Los Angeles Times , and best selling author and youtuber, Kenji Lopez-Alt . Kenji worked in many serious restaurant kitchens in Boston for a number of years after graduating from college, before opening his own restaurant Wursthall in San Mateo, California. Can fine-dining restaurant kitchens become kinder and gentler places? What should happen to Redzepi? We mull over these questions and more on this episode of Special Sauce . Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices