Trine Hahnemann
cook, author, entrepreneur
copenhagen, denmark
Trine Hahnemann is a cook, food and cookbook writer, entrepreneur and founder of several companies working with farm-to-table ideas and sustainable solutions. A catering company touring with bands. A canteen company for 23 years feeding 3,000 to 4,000 people a day from several locations, she also ran the restaurants and canteen at the Danish parliament for 7 years. And she started Hahnemanns Køkken a 100% organic foodspace with a bakery, eatery and cooking school in 2028. Both companies are now sold, the canteen company in 2019 and Hahnemanns Køkken in 2023. Both located in Copenhagen.
Trine has for the last 30 years worked with sustainable food solutions, organic produce, emphasis on vegetables, farm-to-table, diversity-and-storytelling, food cooked with love. Trine has over the last 20 years also work as a consultant, for big and small companies, both helping develop new products and brands, but also change concept to organic practices. Been running workshops about leadership and teamwork. Transforming canteen and public meals into more sustainable practise.
Now Trine spends her time cooking, writing, and is often used as a keynote speaker across the world. She now lives in Piemonte, where she will start up a small project to grow her own food, and looking for new opportunities.
She has talked and cooked at TEDxKrakow, The Nordic Council of Ministers event at Rio+20, James Beard dinner New York, Oxford Food Symposium. She is the co-founder of the Rye Bread Project launched in NYC 2011. Co-author on a book about Syrian culture and food, the proceeds of which goes to the refugees. Trine has also been sitting at several committees for the Danish government like: Fødevarefortællingen and Gastro 2025. Currently Trine sits on the board of “Madkulturen”, a government organisation working to improving the food culture in Denmark with emphasis on the everyday, children and young people.
She is a member of Basque Culinary Centre international advisory board.
Trine has written 10 cookbooks in her native Danish and 9 in English: The Scandinavian Cookbook (2008), The Nordic Diet (2009), Scandinavian Christmas (2012), Scandinavian Baking (2014), Scandinavian Comfort Food (2016), Open Sandwiches (2018) and Copenhagen Food and Stories (2018), which won the UK Guild of Food Writers award for BEST international cookbook 2019, and Scandinavian Green (2020) about her love of vegetables, all published by Quadrille. Her latest book is Simply Scandinavian from 2023, a book about the easy meals we should eat everyday with focus on vegetables.
She writes and appears regularly in magazines and newspapers in America and Britain. Her books Scandinavian Baking and Scandinavian Comfort Food were serialised in the Observer Food Monthly. She has appeared in The Times, The Independent, and The Guardian, Vogue, written for House and Garden, and been a guest editor of the food pages of Grazia. She writes for Fool Magazine. She has appeared on the Great British Bake Off and has been a guest chef on the BBC ONE flagship food programme Saturday Kitchen. She’s been a guest several times on BBC4’s iconic radio program: Woman’s Hour, on BBC4’s Food Programme, and on a range of US local radio and television shows.