which were related to the current coronavirus crisis. The book also went into problems that stem from our ever-growing demand of cheap animal protein and the unsustainable industrial farming necessary to satisfy that need. “I started to eat predominantly plant- based (food) late 2018 when I started to train for Everest,” he says. “And I felt more energized, slept better, had more stamina when working out and at the same time lost fat and built muscle.” He believes in the importance of health eating and in the quote by Hippocrates, the Ancient Greek father of medicine: “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” “I am in a preferred position where… people are interested in what we do. I can be a voice and plant seeds in (people’s) minds,“ says Chef Ekkebus. “We have, as a restaurant and a hotel, a very privileged opportunity to drive consumer change. That is a slow process but I am a man of persistence.”
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