Denmark's Bold Bid to Elevate Cooking as Art

Denmark’s culture minister unveiled an exploratory plan to reclassify gastronomy from craft to art, potentially granting top chefs state subsidies and arts funding if Parliament approves. Aiming to keep the country at the culinary cutting edge—anchored by New Nordic pioneers like Noma’s René Redzepi—the move invites debate within both the culinary and art worlds about what constitutes art and how such support would be allocated.