Claus Meyer

Teaches at Murray's Cheese

Claus Meyer is a Danish culinary and social entrepreneur, restaurateur, professor, and cookbook author. For the past 30 years, he has dedicated himself to reviving and infusing deliciousness into Danish food culture and is cited as the creator of the New Nordic Cuisine movement and co-founder of the restaurant noma. In 2015, he relocated to New York to launch a family of food projects in the US: the fine dining restaurant Agern, as well as Great Northern Food Hall, both in Grand Central Terminal, and an outpost of Meyers Bageri, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  Meyer and his team is also working on establishing an artisanal grain, dairy, coffee and meat production program. Using food as a vehicle for social progress, he founded the Melting Pot Foundation in 2011, establishing cooking schools in Danish prisons, as well as a culinary school and the apprenticeship model restaurant, Gustu, in La Paz, Bolivia. Recently the Melting Pot Foundation US has established a program in Brownsville, Brooklyn, providing tuition free culinary training for neighborhood residents.