Interview with
Nanna-Marie Thinesen
Chef
Interview

Nanna-Marie Thinesen

Chef

During a time of heartbreak, Nanna began shaping what would later become ‘She Serves’ alongside her business partner, Claudia. What started quietly, through shared work in the kitchen, unfolded into a practice rooted in hands-on creation and presence. For Nanna, the project exists in the overlap between life and work, where curiosity, physical work, and vulnerability move side by side. Rather than aiming for polish or certainty, She Serves makes room for messiness, intuition, and human imperfection, creating experiences shaped as much by feeling and energy as by food itself.

Editor’s note: Nanna is not easy to pin down. She moves between things rather than settling into one fixed way of being – something she also recognises in herself. There’s a looseness in how she speaks and thinks, where ideas branch out and overlap, not always in straight lines, but with a kind of instinctive clarity underneath. What becomes apparent is a way of approaching things differently. Not as a statement, but as something that simply happens. Familiar forms shift slightly, take on another direction, and end up somewhere you didn’t expect. At the same time, there’s a tendency to downplay it – as if it’s nothing special, even when it clearly is.

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