reneredzepinoma for Issue 200, Joy is Contagious For over 20 years at nomacph, René Redzepi cultivated a mythology of blended berries, mosses, ferments, and fleeting seasons, each dish an edible thesis to the pleasures of paying attention. Now, Redzepi eyes our dear City of Angels with a sixteen week 2026 residency running from March 11 through June 26. Redzepi spends a great deal of his free time traversing the wilderness on foot. For our 200th issue, he shared with us some of his favorite hiking trails, drawing parallels between culinary creation and meditative walking. On the practice of walking as meditation, Redzepi shares, “Walking is experiencing the micro-seasons of a day: you feel the cold of dawn in your bones, you hear the insects rise with the sun, you taste dust in the afternoon, and then the stillness that comes before evening. What we try to do at Noma [is locate] a feeling of time and place. We ask ourselves all the time—what does today taste like? And through our i...