Lunch Break
How to Get Happy With a Top Chef’s Simple Pasta Recipe
Niklas Ekstedt says food affects your mood: Reasons to be cheerful.
Pasta al dente with sage, butter and pine nuts.
Photographer: David Loftus/Bloomsbury Absolute
Niklas Ekstedt, co-author of “Happy Food for Life”, isn’t feeling too cheerful.
“I crashed on my snowmobile and broke my shoulder blade, so it has been a painful couple of weeks,” the Swedish chef says from Stockholm during a telephone interview. “And then you have the Covid thing on top of that. It is not the greatest time ever, but we can only get better.”