Morten Schakenda is a Norwegian cook, known as one of the leading chefs in the country.

After working on the school ship Gann

Gann

Gann may refer toPeople* Ernest K. Gann , author, sailor, fisherman and airline captain* Kyle Gann , composer and music critic* Thomas Gann , medical doctor and amateur archaeologist* W. D...

, he worked at Hotell Ulstein. Later, he was leader of the Gastronomisk institutt in Stavanger

Stavanger

Stavanger is a city and municipality in the county of Rogaland, Norway.Stavanger municipality has a population of 126,469. There are 197,852 people living in the Stavanger conurbation, making Stavanger the fourth largest city, but the third largest urban area, in Norway...

 for eight years, and made his debut for the national cooking team (1997). He worked in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

 restaurants such as Bagatelle

Bagatelle

Bagatelle is a billiards-derived indoor table game, the object of which is to get a number of balls past wooden pins into holes...

, Jans Mat og Vinhus, Terra Restaurant, D'Artagnan

D'Artagnan

Charles Ogier de Batz de Castelmore, Comte d'Artagnan served Louis XIV as captain of the Musketeers of the Guard and died at the Siege of Maastricht in the Franco-Dutch War. A fictionalized account of his life by Gatien de Courtilz de Sandras formed the basis for the d'Artagnan Romances of...

 and Holmenkollen Restaurant. After three years as the apprentice at Åpent Bakeri, he established a bakery in Lom

Lom

Lom as an ethnic group:* Lom people, a Gypsy group, mainly in the CaucasusLom as a placename:* Lom, Norway, a municipality in Norway** Lom prisoner of war camp, a Norwegian prisoner of war camp in the above-mentioned location....

 (2004-).
Schakenda has, along with Stein Mortensen and Charles Tjessem

Charles Tjessem

Charles Tjessem is a Norwegian chef, and winner of the 2003 Bocuse d'Or. The victory was achieved over the French chef Frank Putelat by the smallest margin of points to date in the competition....

, written Med skjell fra gaffelen (2004).