Welcome to the Kitchen Stage – conversations, taste, and sharp perspectives

At the festival grounds in Kødbyen, you’ll find the Kitchen Stage – Copenhagen Cooking’s vibrant gathering place for conversations, inspiration, and quirky contributions from the worlds of food and culture.

Here, you can take a seat and experience talks, debates, podcasts, and sensory experiments with some of the country’s most exciting voices in gastronomy, research, communication, and literature. This is where we add flavor to ideas and talk about everything happening in and around the kitchen – from fermentation and the future of food to food culture, sustainability, and a love of open-faced sandwiches.

Program for the Kitchen Stage:

Friday, August 15

Adam Aamann & Jens Kjeldahl unfolds the virtues of the onion in a conversation about the green kitchen.

Easy Peacy & Gasa Odense demonstrates how strawberries can elevate the savory kitchen.

Sansebar with Rikke Bronx & Rasmus Breddahl, an experimental flavor workshop where the senses are set free – Buy your ticket here. 

Silent Disco under the open sky with Rikke Bronx – dance along in headphones as night falls – Buy your ticket here.

Saturday, August 16

Ingeniøren recording a live podcast about fermentation and genetic technology.

Lindhardt & Ringhof invites you for morning coffee and a conversation about ultra-processed food.

Gastrotools og Brian Mark tells the story of the road to the Bocuse d’Or gold.

FDM Travel takes you on gastronomic routes through Provence.

Kvægafdriftsfonden raises the debate about beef and climate.

Eva Hurtigkarl talks about cookbooks and kitchen love.

Culinary Institute of Ethiopia brings Ethiopian flavors into play.

Royal Unibrew is behind a beer surprise.

DJ MovieStarPlanet closes the evening with organic house beats.

Sunday, August 17

Michael Rahbek opens Smørrebrødets Dag.

Organic Summit checks the current state of organic farming.

Umut Sakarya & Økologihaven provides herbal inspiration for everyday life.

Louise Britze invites to a church service with a food-cultural twist.

My & Mikkel Maarbjerg dives into vegetables from soil to plate.

Monday, August 18

Claus Meyer & Axel Månsson goes green with power.

Kokkelandsholdet & Provence competes in a real ratatouille duel.

Kvægafdriftsfonden looks at whether we can eat our way to a green landscape.

Organic Summit wraps up the stage with a conversation about organic farming in times of crisis.

Most of the events at the Kitchen Stage are free and require no ticket — just show up and listen.

We look forward to seeing you for great conversations and fresh perspectives right in the heart of Kødbyen!