Norwegian chef Orjan Johannessen was recently crowned champion in the European leg of the Bocuse d’Or contest, known as the Olympic Games of the food world.

Twenty chefs faced off in a two-day cookout in Brussels, ahead of the worldwide Bocuse d’Or competition to be held in the eastern French city of Lyon next January.

Sweden’s Adam Dahlberg and the Danish chef Jeppe Foldager took silver and bronze respectively – an all-Nordic trio of winners, as was the case in the last global edition.

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