He started an article in the NYT magazine last year with the same three sentences: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nu... -- I suspect the article borrowed some material from the book-in-progress, or something like that. Reading that article influenced the way I think about food as well.
Hrm, my experience at CPH was pretty bad. I spent over an hour in the checkin line for a KLM flight to AMS (the first flight of the day; I arrived just before 5am for a 6-something departure), and they had to hold the plane for the checkin line to clear. Then again, that was probably mostly the fault of the KLM staff. In fact, it might have even been where you took the picture, except the room was completely full, with lines running the entire width of your picture to large numbers of the checkin desks.