Which what skills you the appetite to continue this was the question I got from
Renee I really didn't want to come but I didn't felt I had anything to say so so
I had a problem but when he asked this question is just I understood what he was
thinking about as probably the many problems I had to change culture from
the need of eating you know to survive and to enjoy food and this I will also
come back to I come from Faro Islands just in the middle of the Atlantic
oceans not so big we're only 50,000 peoples we are more sheeps than we are
people and mainly almost all our export is fish the first we can read about the
ferries culture or food is in a very old document which we call the sheep's
letters from 1298 it's from an old bishop from Norway which was living in
Faro Island and he was writing about some laws and things like that and
there are something about whalings and sheeps so we know what they have been
eating but not how they have been eating it the next we are next document is
a Danish priest Lukas Depe's he was writing a book Ferro Reserata from 60
173 and he was writing a chapel about food and that was a poor text it was
terrible to read because they were almost eating nothing it was only fish a
meat and grain so it was a variation of that in different way but there was
nothing else if there were no vegetables and and things other things but he
writes in the start of this chapter other countries location are praised for
their great wealth several metals mineral precious stones pearls wines and
grain but all this God and nature has denied the fairies and that's some way
true but there are some good things but that will I will come to as I will
speak the circumstance has been very poor through the time you know everything
has been being self-sufficiency whaling fishing and catching birds and eggs and
you can see Bacalao and the right bottom there the famous Bacalao it was
probably the only thing we had to export at that time or 400 to 200 years ago
fish is our main export and nearly all family has a boat a little boat like
that my father has that boat and we eat everything on the fish liver hat and
everything and we we have fresh fish and then we have also what we call
fermented fish and aged fish it's there was a guy talking about umami that's an
umami bomb you can call it and then we have dried fish this we also use for
meat the climate is perfect to hanging something out if it if it's wasn't for
this climate I think no one was living on the island because there was no
freezer and there was no vegetables and if you only can use the meat for two
days there will not be any fairies people you're used to catch your own
food or my father was catching the food you know five days a week we were
eating something he had been catching or fishing and if it should be fine it
was probably Danish meatballs or something like that but it was no fine
food everything is put in one pot if you have meat plumber or potatoes
everything in the same pot and it was not a matter of enjoying it was a matter
of surviving what's gives you the appetite then we come back to this
question in these are two words appetites and ambition are a little
similar with if you think about appetite is something you smell and you are
seeing something or and you get the eager to get this and it's the same with
ambition you get the eager to do something so my appetite has been the
ambition to change things change things from whatever to something else I'm very
proud of my old culture but it's not so what's it's not updated to now that's
the problem huh people should not think that we are cave people living there so
in many relation you know to get food up to the present day also change other
aspects in the society for example if you would invite someone out to eat we
could not at that moment serve wine because it was not allowed to serve wine
so people thought we were a little stupid so it has been a hard work to come
to where we are today there are not so many chefs who are talking about food
on Faro Island so the mostly they are just working and doing this pepper steak
or what they are doing so I felt very alone sometimes but it's very good to
come to things like this because you got the courage again to do something it
gives me appetite to see that things are shaping up and people think that this
is not so stupid what we are doing some are angry because we are changing the
old culture but it's okay with the new restaurant Cox we have a new start Cox
is walking in the beaten off the beaten track and we are like most fine dining or
gourmet restaurant a little below the things we are thinking of is to make
nice food and get people to enjoy themselves renaissance about sir we
of that in a speech to sir we of the sir is properly the alphabet for the
culinary alphabet for Norma and we are looking for our alphabet we are not
found all our letters yet but then today we are focused on what we have what we
have is fantastic Renee is writing about this turnips in his last book where
he's getting a turnips to coffee one day he's eating at Faro Island and it's
just like to eat a juicy apple you can see how it's transparent here and it's
not only a slice we have carrots and we have potatoes in greenhouses we are
trying to make strawberry last year and it was fantastic probably the best I
ever have tasted and the reason is probably because the Sun is the limited
factor in the growth in Faro Island and the heat in the earth so it's growing
very slowly but it's sucking everything up from the air from the earth and
getting this fantastic taste wild plants were the first thing I was trying to
work with because I couldn't serve a meat and things like that so Angelica and
Cogliaria was two of the major plants in Faro Islands to survive because there
were no vegetables there were only those two which can you see with our mind we
are here Porto Lac it's fantastic because when the sea is coming over the
Porto Lac it's just tasting like oysters from nothing to something that was it
and when I think about this title here we started with nothing today we are in
the beginning to try to find something and try to find something for the
huge thank you
