 You're most honorable ladies and gentlemen and you're most honorable Josh Whiteland because I'm a copycat. He's very original for it. Aburidinist all countries indigenous people are original and we are just copying but we try to copy as possible so thank you for talking after after Josh yeah to make sure of his speech you will have some guts in it I have to tell you that I have been eating in test times on creed and stomach in Rome and brain too in Rome I once had the guts to order an item from the menu normally reserved for Greek traditionalists what it was it was testicles I had it today too from Lebanon thanks it's a Roman kitchen that has survived here and where in Lebanon and Istanbul for example yeah but where did I eat those testicles it was in a Greek restaurant of course but right here in Copenhagen and that is all I have to say on the topic of bloody guts when Renee invited me to speak at this event about foraging in a modern world he told me say something you have not there to say before and he meant it yeah so he wanted me to address an audience of 600 freedom fighters in the global culinary and cultural revolution looking for new ideas in the struggle in your strategy yeah that's not easy but I humbly accepted your invitation hoping that I had through previous experiences mobilized enough meters of guts to share some with you for this young audience it must seem like ancient times in the era of 1969 I tried to overpower the Swedish Prime Minister with my arguments in front of two thousand fellow students of Lund University in Skåne the southernmost part of Sweden the age of at the age of 22 I had been inspired by the political shockwave from China three years earlier the lesson was bombard the headquarters it's right to rebel so I went wild the government had decided to build a large airport outside the town of Malmö in Skania in my home territory this was totally unacceptable to me as an amateur field biologist I was furious because I was a part of that nature and that nature was an essential part of my identity I did not reflect our bravery or guts I was just protecting that which I loved the Swedish Prime Minister Targar Lander was defeated by a rational argument that day and so was his successor of Palma when he came to visit the university two years later at least according to the press despite our best efforts Malmö airport was built more or less in a big nature reserve full of birds and deer and the decision was taken without any democratic process all of Palma had accepted the utopian vision of Eurostat as Scandinavian megalopolis a Hamburg of the north to please economic powers of its time they want to build a new Copenhagen on the other side of the strait of Eurostat so we double the population here and okay the project went ahead without a referendum I call that criminal to survive as hominids we have to remember where we can find our different foods we are gatherers by the nature so we have strong memories of the places where we found those nice chanterelles delicious nuts or berries in the forest we also remember each restaurant by the same primordial instinct we connect to that certain place when we eat there becoming one with a place through the most ancient of sacraments we get involved with the soil and the people producing the food we get so much involved that we stand up and fight for the possibility to be able to eat that food again on that place we must fight pollution and climate change and all threats to our food it's a part of being a human being as a chef you must understand this we must stand up and fight for healthy sustainable production of clean food from a healthy planet we must go wild chefs have a unique opportunity in storytelling about food its origin history and we environment don't miss that chance people need it gastronomic innovation in refined dining kitchens always spritz to all other kitchens and this is developing very rapidly now the chef has to be historically and environmentally aware and conscious and let's guess have something to take notice of and remember for a long time the chef is suddenly required to become both teacher and environmentalist I'm an old teacher you see I must stand here by the pulpit or podium I can't live without it but I have had to do something else for it because I couldn't do any couldn't do any teaching anymore I had bad hearings so what to say yes when when you are or are when the guests are paying the bill on the restaurant ask them to go home and save the planet take the chance as the old proverb says the man to the mind the way to man man man once again as the old proverb says the way to a man's heart goes through his stomach completely disregarding its original sexes purpose of telling young women to learn to cook in order to attract suitable male companions I still think it holds wisdom I believe that the way to reach the mind of any human being goes through the mouth to the stomach from the stomach to the heart before finally reaching the head you can you can become conscious of a wild world in crisis when eating wild foods the solution is on the plate in front of you it just takes some guts to digest it all I implore you using the words of Jean-Jacques Rousseau retour à la nature and that is restored to man the forces of its natural process placing outside every bond of society and the prejudices of civilization the fact that these solutions manifested themselves in Copenhagen is no coincidence contradictions are here on the highest level urbanization has forced one third one third of the cities to live in Copenhagen a lovely city but one third the dream of the earth star we're now expanding city around the state of Ericsson is planned to force one third of the total population of all the Nordic countries to move in the populating other parts of a reading that happens now when I asked Olof Palmer in 1971 of how this was to be achieved he couldn't respond how are we to motivate people to leave our homes in the Scandinavian nature to live in a nightmare in Megalopolis through highways and various on bridge the cities and towns were to grow into an urban unit expanding on some of the most arable soil on earth comparable to the black earth of Ukraine the Swedish state original the Swedish state originally planned for six nuclear power plants and then the Danish state wanted to build a new airport hub on the island of Saltolm in the middle of Ericsson but these six reactors should be rather near on the Swedish side just some kilometer kilometers from the airport if not for the efforts of brave citizens with gats this could have been a politically organized hell six reactors beneath an aerodrome with 60 million people passengers per year it was should be the biggest in the world at that time bigger than Chicago's that had 48 million passengers that year when they they got the idea crazy people okay we could have been the Scandinavian we here could have been the Scandinavian Fukushima today the Baselberg reactor the plant called Baselberg have closed down and our food is that much safer who would want to cook and eat from Chernobyl or Fukushima don't let ignorant fools in suits gamble with your food your health think of your own best but at the same time take responsibility for generations to come go wild with yearly gathering in Copenhagen mad can it be the first step to something new we must in different ways find paths to wilderness to natural living to get to know some plot of your place to connect with and to protect during our short lives we need to find a place where we can sit down and let our souls catch up with us like the old native Americans did only then can we act responsibly so what's on the menu a return to nature does not mean the return to what used to be but something completely new leave towns and cities for the countryside decentralized and recolonize now abandoned but previously flourishing agrarian areas it is all very easy do you want to be a hypnotic robot an alien or do you want to be an emotional human being what's better gathering in the supermarkets or in the wilderness what are your goals with life you have to get wild we need a and we need a mental and geographical domain a home range a territory to defend with our life if necessary I grew I grew up in a town but got interested for nature I spent a lot of time biking in the vicinity of town as a teenager through a feeling of identity with nature I stood up for my home and for myself when politicians wanted to exploit it the nature irresponsibly I did it with guts I knew nothing about but trust me it is there in all of us nature can help us find it and without the peace of nature to fall in love with we are doomed perhaps some weeds on the plate and the pellet is enough at least as a starter a piece of wilderness to mood to mold our thinking to start transforming the so-called civilized aid society civilized society into something we cannot yet imagine where people is the model for a sustainable civilization the wild revolution did not start here in Copenhagen regathering heritage of indigenous people have survived scattered across the world forgotten wisdom to be relearned every innocence of the original of foods one of the most beautiful result of this culinary revolution is that indigenous people are restoring their dignity indigenous people are restoring that that is good I'm very happy for that and that is because their knowledge once again is recognized as important for our common future no man would say they have been the catalysts in this development by consistently using wild nature and local products to revitalize the traditional kitchen what a journey it has been not one odyssey but a series of adventures in the wake of a Greek precursor no doubt it is just like Renee would say be must have had Macedonian ancestors Renee also is a conqueror of the world like the Macedonian Alexander the great I'm forbidden to talk about Noma and Renee but I can't let I must weeds mushrooms and berries from Scania the southern most part of Sweden have been delivered to regional restaurants ever since the creation of my company it has meant weekly trips to Copenhagen for over a decade but it started as a humble sale of mushrooms in the marketplace in Lund 15 years ago where I had studied studied mathematics biology and chemistry and later also archaeology and the quaternary biology and petroleum yeah you you must have some knowledge to survive therefore why let me study two and a half year computer technology to build computers and to learn free programming programming languages but I didn't get any jobs so I had to forest that I'm very happy for that yeah I gradually expanded the assortment with weeds and berries not only mushrooms and started to sell to restaurants shortly thereafter I was forcing to survive I had no idea at that time that my little enterprise would become part of this expanding movement that the new Nordic cuisine and a new thinking of local ecological identity with nature it's a quality have been a quality raising agenda that permeates the kitchens awareness social responsibility sustainability and the concept is spreading globally at the speed of thought illuminating minds and helping us to stay human we go wild to rescue the planet and humanity with it now I have reached the point where I will say what I have not dared to say before our gastronomic culinary cultural and global and revolutionary moment movement it needs a right of passage and initiation ceremony some ritual event some ritual event that marks a person's transition from one status to another go to the beach or to the woods or to some part of nature but you have made your own kneel on the ground maybe I should kneel to it and maybe yeah yeah I do I think I do it here's good place to kneel yeah yeah it's not planned it's improved yeah yeah where is my kneel on the ground humbly bend your head and here is some edible things too humbly bend your head take a bite from a rooted plant okay it's a wood sorrel nice yeah take a bite from a rooted plant yes grace as the animal you are okay contemplate with universal empathy our critical impact on this wild symphony of existence thank son here's many sons thank the sun for giving us energy green plants animals and life infuse your identity with the earth be while join the revolution