Rene Redzepi’s food knowledge project MAD, the hottest global event for chefs and home cooks alike, is coming to Sydney on April 3. Called MADsyd, delicious. can confirm the event will include chefs Kylie Kwong, Redzepi himself and David Chang, with Australian researcher Rebecca Huntley and Zimbabwean food activist Chido Govera, who will take centre stage at The Sydney Opera House.

Redzepi himself made the announcement on social media tonight.

The project is known for challenging chefs on what it means to cook. It’s set to be the year’s top event for anyone interested in food, as well as the way we cook and eat.

The full line up is yet to be confirmed, but Italian celebrity chef Massimo Bottura will make an appearance 3 April. We can expect great insights from the chef, behind three-star Michelin restaurant in Italy, Osteria Francescana. The chef is known for celebrating local producers and cooking traditions from what he calls a “critical and not nostalgic point of view”.

Rene Redzepi, whose 10-week pop up Noma Australia is the most coveted (yet sold out, alas) table in Sydney, is the founder of this unique event. MAD, taken from the Danish word for “food”, travels the world doing small events – it hosted one with the World Bank in Washington DC in April 2015, for example, which included session talks on the future of food.

Then, large annual MAD symposiums discuss major issues affecting the world of food. In 2011, the first MAD symposium covered vegetation, and a year later the topic was appetite and the natural world to the inner one. MAD3, held in a circus tent in Copenhagen in 2013, looked at guts. MAD4 explored what cooking is.

Is cooking a path to celebrity, the MAD4 symposium asked, “a means of attaining fortune”. As the world turned to celebrity chefs and placed them in the limelight, the symposium set out to remind us what cooking should be.

In his closing speech at MAD4 symposium in August 2014, Redzepi told the audience to start taking action to help make every meal a better meal – not just the food served in restaurants, but the food served in homes around the globe. He urged the audience to remember that good cooking and a healthy environment can and should go hand-in-hand, that the quest for a better meal can leave the world a better place than how we found it.

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