Career
Meyer has been engaged in a plethora of projects and has been a popular mediater of food culture in both Denmark and internationally for many years. A total of twelve chefs from the Nordic countries wrote a New Nordic Food Manifesto in 2004 to initiate the movement with Claus Meyer as an "arcitect" behind lieutenant The New Nordic Cuisine Movement seeks to foster local agriculture, honor the region"s agrarian traditions, encourage environmentally friendly production, and establish food with a uniquely Nordic identity among the world"s great cuisines.
He has hosted several Danish and international television cooking shows such as Meyers Køkken (English: Meyer’s Kitchen) on national Danish television (DR1) from 1991 to 1998 and New Scandinavian Cooking, broadcast in more than 130 countries.
Meyer has founded several organisations, including the Melting Pot Foundation, focused on driving social change through food. With Melting Pot, in 2013, he started and helped establish a food school and a food movement in South America, opening the gourmet-restaurant Gustu in Bolivia and several cafeterias.
Late spring 2016, he will establish Great Northern Food Hall and restaurant Agern, both in Grand Central Terminal in New York, bringing culinary concepts, flavors and ideas rooted in the history and the landscapes of the Nordic countries to the City of New New York In the summer of 2016, Melting Pot will initiate a social project in Brownsville, East New York, establishing a culinary school, cafeteria, bakery and community center, serving the local community and with the goal of engaging at-risk youth.
Meyer is an associate professor in the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen University of Copenhagen. as well as an adjunct professor at the Institute for Corporate Social Responsibility at the Copenhagen Business School.
In 2015 he was appointed “Social Impact Fellow” at the Hass School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. Meyer also holds an Master of Arts in International Business Studies from the Copenhagen Business School. Meyer is a world-renowned restaurateur and culinary entrepreneur.
He has also written and published numerous cookbooks.
Meyer co-owns several restaurants, including Studio in Copenhagen, which received a Michelin star just four months after opening, as well as a chain of bakeries, delis, a catering business, an orchard, fruit and chocolate supply companies, a vinegar factory, a coffee roastery and a cooking school for kids and adults. Believing in food as a driver for social change, Meyer established the Melting Pot Foundation in 2010.
The organization runs a cooking school project in Danish prisons, motivating incarcerated people to live a life without crime. In 2013, Melting Pot established a cooking school in Louisiana Paz, Bolivia, providing culinary education to impoverished Bolivians, also serving as a gourmet restaurant, Gustu, voted 17th best in Latin America on the Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants list.
Meyer is married to the graphic designer Christina Meyer Bengtsson.
They have four daughters: Elvira, Viola, Filippa and Augusta. He has recently relocated to New York City with the purpose of establishing a food hall and restaurant rooted in the New Nordic Cooking philosophy to be located at Grand Central Terminal.