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ROSKILDE FESTIVAL

Leftover festival food feeds thousands

Over 27 tonnes of food otherwise destined for the rubbish bin was collected at this year's Roskilde Festival and converted into meals for the needy.

Published: 14 August 2014 15:10 CEST
Leftover festival food feeds thousands
The leftover Roskilde food was either delivered directly or converted into new dishes and frozen. Photo: Bobby Anwar
Some 50,000 meals were donated to area hostels, shelters and asylum centres using unused food from last month’s Roskilde Festival.
 
Festival organisers announced on Tuesday that kitchen scraps totaling 27.5 tonnes were collected during the festival. 
 
Working together with the Stop Wasting Food (Stop Spild af Mad) movement, the festival leftovers were collected and either delivered directly to recipients or taken to the Danish Meat Trade College (Slagteriskolen) in Roskilde, where the food was turned into new dishes and then frozen. 
 
 
The frozen meals were delivered to social help centres all across Zealand. 
 
One of the recipient locations was Kirkens Korshær in Holbæk. 
 
“The users of our shelter were very happy for the lasagne. The good leftover food that we received meant that we were able to save time and money,” Pernille Korzen, a spokeswoman for the centre, said in a press release.
 
Stop Wasting Food is Denmark’s largest consumer movement against food waste. Some 70 volunteers from the organisation collected the leftover food at the Roskilde Festival, which ran from June 29th to July 6th.

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FOOD AND DRINK

Danish chef wants to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere

Danish chef Rasmus Munk wants to take high-end cuisine to the edge of space, with plans to serve up a stratospheric dining experience in 2025, his restaurant said Thursday.

Published: 14 March 2024 16:38 CET
Danish chef wants to launch gourmet dining to stratosphere

“The expedition will take place aboard Space Perspective Spaceship Neptune, the world’s first carbon-neutral spaceship,” Alchemist, the Copenhagen restaurant that has earned Munk two Michelin stars, said in a statement.

“They will dine as they watch the sunrise over the Earth’s curvature” at an altitude of 100,000 feet (30,000 metres) above sea level, it said.

For $495,000 per ticket, six tourists will embark on a six-hour journey in a pressurised space capsule that will rise into the stratosphere in a hydrogen-filled “SpaceBalloon”.

The 32-year-old chef and self-confessed space enthusiast will be joining the trip.

READ ALSO: World-famous Copenhagen restaurant to close after 2024

Munk promises “dishes inspired by the role of space exploration during the last 60 years of human history, and the impact it has had on our society — both scientifically and philosophically”.

His menu will be restricted only by his inability to cook food over an open flame.

Many of the ingredients will be prepared on the ship from which the capsule is launched, according to Alchemist, which is ranked fifth among the world’s restaurants in 2023 according to the World’s Best 50 Restaurants guide.

In recent decades, Denmark has emerged as a gastronomical powerhouse on terra firma, with the Copenhagen restaurants Noma and Geranium both having held the title of the world’s best restaurant.

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