Lunch Break
The World’s Best Restaurant Sells a Magic Ingredient for Home Pastas
Noma’s first commercial product, a mushroom garum, sells out as fast as its reservations.
Pasta carbonara benefits from smoked mushroom garum.
Photographer: Cory SmithEditor’s note: As we leave our home kitchens to dine out more, the weekly Lunch Break column has evolved to highlight dishes from a variety of sources: a new or reopened restaurant; a newsmaking person, place, or recipe; or, of course, a great cookbook.
René Redzepi might run the world’s most famous restaurant, Noma, in Copenhagen, but he doesn’t make his family’s favorite dish.