If anyone, Rene Redzepi really does need an introduction. What can you write about someone who has been the most discussed chef, the most influential chef of the past 18 years? He opened Noma back in 2003, as the most prodigious 26-year-old chef ever, and with it, he didn’t just open a restaurant, he created a whole movement, changed the Nordic restaurant scene, changed the international food scene. For good.

There's many adjectives that can be used to describe Angel Leon: innovative, revolutionary, groundbreaking, crazy. Yes, crazy, because that’s exactly what you have to be to come up with some unheard of ideas to apply in your kitchen.

It's very trendy to write about fine dining in remote locations. The recently closed Fäviken obviously being at the very top of all such lists. Koks in Faroe Islands, Fogo Island Inn off the coast of Newfoundland, South Africa’s Wolfgat, team Central’s Mil up in the Andes …

With all the boom Nordic gastronomy has seen in the past 15 years it's easy to forget the guys who were pioneers of the New Nordic cuisine are still just barely 40 years old. Which might also explain why the movement shows no signs of slowing down.