Rasmus Kofoed in the garden.
Will King-Smith and liquid nitrogen.
Will King-Smith making dill rocks.
Rasmus Kofoed and table-side plating.
The Restaurant at Meadowood’s annual 12 Days of Christmas guest chef series is winding down. Here at Inside Scoop, we’re reviving our own tradition of individually tracking each night’s charity dinner — and the exploration of cuisine from the chefs from around the world, through their words and their food. You can check out past years here: 2012, 2011 and 2010. And catch up on this year’s prior dinners here.
It was fitting that on the same day that the American team for the 2015 Bocuse d’Or was revealed to be coming from the French Laundry, just a few short miles from Thomas Keller’s flagship, Rasmus Kofoed cooked dinner at the Restaurant at Meadowood.
Kofoed is the chef and owner of Geranium in Copenhagen, which sits at #45 on the World’s 50 Best list and carries two Michelin stars. But he is also somewhat of a badass when it comes to the culinary competition realm, and the Bocuse d’Or in particular. He was captain of the Danish culinary team for seven years, winning the Bocuse d’Or bronze medal in 2005, the silver in 2007 and finally reaching the top with the gold medal in 2011. He’s got technique down pat, and for the Meadowood dinner, he reportedly only brought one ingredient from Europe: woodruff powder.