Kitchen culture and the myth of necessary suffering

Julia Moskin has been a food reporter at the New York Times since 2004, and her beat has taken her everywhere from the best Jamaican patties in New York to a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, earned for reporting on sexual harassment in the restaurant industry. Today she joins Matt to talk about her latest investigation: a bombshell report revealing years of alleged physical and psychological abuse inside Noma's Copenhagen kitchen. It’s the story that set off protests at the restaurant’s Los Angeles pop-up and led to founder René Redzepi stepping down, all in the same week. How do you get 35 former employees to go on the record? And what does this moment mean for the future of fine dining as a form? Julia tells us all.

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Read more about Noma:

• René Redzepi Steps Down at Noma Amid Allegations of Past Abuse [NYT]
• The Fall of Noma’s Chef Reverberates in the Restaurant World [NYT]
• Noma, Violence, and the Line Between a Hard Kitchen and an Abusive One [Mad Food World]

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