Prince Henrik’s Recipes: Danish Royal Cuisine

Having exquisite taste and overwhelming desire for novelties, The Prince Consort of Denmark, Henrik (Danish: Hans Kongelige Hojhed Prinsgemalen Henrik, name at birth Henri Marie Jean Andre de Laborde de Monpezat (French); born in 1934) has achieved amazing gastronomic results and has written three cookery books which have been a triumphal success all over Europe. The first book of cooking secrets of His Royal Highness in Russian, “Prince Henrik’s Recipes: Danish Royal Cuisine” gift book, was published by Ayaks-Press in 2009.

 

His Royal Highness The Prince Consort of Denmark, Henrik was born in France in the family of a wealthy nobleman. He spent his childhood in Indochina, obtained his education at the Sorbonne, studied Chinese and Vietnamese. The Prince Consort of Denmark lived and worked in Hong Kong, Hanoi and Saigon, did military service in the Algerian War, worked as a Secretary at the embassy in London.

The versatile and active husband of Danish Queen Margrethe II is famous in Denmark and abroad not only for being an outstanding public figure, poet, keen traveler, pilot, and yachtsman, but also for being a gifted cook.

Having taken interest in cooking in his early childhood, Prince Henrik has had this passion all his life. The main ideas of his cuisine are as follows: firstly, the freshest ingredients which means choosing local products; secondly, their daring combination; thirdly, simplicity of cooking.

"Prince Henrik’s Recipes: Danish Royal Cuisine" can be bought nearly in all Russian bookstores and online shops, including online shop Labirint.Ru (Лабиринт.Ру), following the link: http://www.labirint.ru/books/219006/