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[quote=Anonymous]I've been following this.  I went to Noma when they were at their peak - can't remember what year but it was during the time when they were always #1 in the world and apparently the worst abuse was taking place according to these stories. The service was so friendly and each dish was presented by the chef that made it.  I thought it was super laid-back and not pretentious like many similar places.  At the end of the dinner they took us up to their test kitchen where they brainstormed and created dishes - which is mentioned as a location of a lot of the abuse.

The thing that struck me after reading the NY Times articale was that so many of the chefs told us how much Rene supported their careers, encouraged them to start their own restaurants, taught them so much about foraging, etc.  They even gave us a list of local restaurants in Copenhagen that were started/run by Noma alumni.  We went to one the next night and it was amazing. This is exactly the opposite of what they report in these stories. To me it's almost like Stokholm Syndrome - They all had great things to say about their abuser.

I think emotional and physical abuse can really traumatize people especially when the perp is someone they look up to and really want to please. Like Weinstein and others in Hollywood, they threatened to blacklist them and ruin their careers.  The Noma staff who spoke up in these stories said having Noma on their resume could set them up for life and they tried hard to just live through it for a period of time when they could finally get out and do something else.  I don't think we can judge unless we walked in their shoes.

That said, I'm pretty old and in the 70s-80s as a fairly attractive woman in the workforce, I experienced MAJOR sexual harassment on a daily basis.  There was no such thing as HR to go to - you just had to grow a thick skin, shout back at them and go on with your day.  You could usually shut them down with a comment about their tiny dick.  Crazy times.   [/quote]

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