Chef Umut Sakarya and food historian Bettina Buhl, from The Green Museum, will take you on a culinary journey. The star of this event is unquestionably the potato. We celebrate the potato - a versatile ingredient in Danish food culture.

Prepare for a day where we delve into the wonderful world of potatoes, filled with knowledge, humor, and of course, delicious tastings.

We start from the humble beginnings of the potato to its current status as an indispensable part of global gastronomy. "Tour de Kartoffel" will show you why this modest tuber deserves a starring role in both our kitchens and our hearts.

Prepare for an unforgettable event where we reveal the secrets of the potato, inspire new ways to prepare this versatile ingredient, and celebrate its importance for sustainability and nutrition.

With a blend of learning and play, taste and sustainability, we promise an experience that will renew your love for potatoes and perhaps even revolutionize your approach to cooking.

See you at "Tour de Kartoffel"!

Your hosts

Umut Sakarya, chef, YouTuber, cookbook author, and food enthusiast.

Umut Sakarya is a well-known chef born in Turkey and residing in Denmark. He is known from TV. In 2015, he won "Masterchef – Me and My Chef" along with Rene Dif from the band Aqua. Over the years, Umut Sakarya opened several successful eateries serving classic Danish food, all of which closed in 2022. Umut Sakarya has a YouTube channel on cooking and an Instagram profile with many followers.

Bettina Buhl is a food historian, MA in history and communication, museum curator, and works daily on research and dissemination of Danish food history and food culture at The Green Museum. She is the author of numerous articles on Danish food history and contributes as a food history consultant to many projects and to TV and radio programs on food - including being a frequent guest on Go ‘Morgen Danmark. In connection with the TV series Badehotellet, Bettina contributes with culinary historical knowledge and ideas for menus and preparations. She is also a regular columnist and food critic for Jyllandsposten.

Both Umut Sakarya and Bettina Buhl are represented in the Danish Potato Council.

The event is supported by the Potato Levy Fund, the Danish Potato Council, and The Green Museum.

Cabbage in focus

This year's headliner at Copenhagen Cooking 2024 is cabbage, and under the heading Cabbage Love, it will play an undisputed leading role in the ambition to make this versatile vegetable even more attractive.

Cabbage is full of flavour, affordable, filling, full of health and good for the body and the climate - and it thrives in our local climate. See all food events with cabbage in focus here and buy this year's cabbage poster by Pine Cone Project here.

Read more about this year's headliner here.