Noma’s René Redzepi on tour; all the chefs come out

René Redzepi kicked off the cross-continent book tour for his newly published “A Work in Progress” in New York last week, hitting Washington, D.C.; Toronto; Chicago; Seattle; San Francisco; and finally Los Angeles.

On Thursday night the Heath Los Angeles store hosted a private book-signing for the chef of Noma, the Copenhagen restaurant that has garnered worldwide attention. (Redzepi recently was included in the controversial Time article, “Gods of Food,” on whose European edition cover he appears.)

The Heath appearance followed Tuesday’s guest spot on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” where he showed Kimmel and actor Idris Elba how to make chocolate-covered chicharrones (“Everybody loves the crispy skin of a mammal,” Redzepi noted.) And on Wednesday Redzepi addressed a full Castro Theater in San Francisco. “I couldn’t believe so many people came,” Redzepi said at Thursday’s book-signing, which was a decidedly smaller venue though just as well attended.

In attendance and in line to have their books signed were several of L.A.’s top chefs, including Michael Cimarusti of Providence, Michael Voltaggio of ink., Josiah Citrin of Melisse and Nancy Silverton of Mozza.

Vinny Dotolo of Animal, Son of a Gun and Trois Mec provided appetizers such as scrambled eggs with uni, butternut squash salad and honey-soaked buckwheat pancakes. Plenty of Riesling and Japanese Ginga Kogen wheat beer was poured.

“A Work in Progress” is a cookbook that comes with Redzepi’s journal and a small book of random Instagram-style photos. The recipes call for ingredients such as green pillow moss, reduced birch wine, red oxalis stems and trimoline. A Thermomix would come in handy. So would a refractometer.

On Friday, Redzepi appears at Book Soup for a talk and signing at 7 p.m.

Book Soup, 818 W. Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, (310) 659.3110, www.booksoup.com.

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