50 Best: How Janaina Rueda became a Brazilian icon
“If we want our kids to understand about food, then we have to make sure they receive food education.”
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50 Best: Inside Kol
After more than two years travelling in search of the best ingredients, Lastra has put the finishing touches to a concept that is set to transform Mexican food in the UK
Chefs TV: Daniel Humm interview
“Brands that don’t have a higher mission will become irrelevant”
50 Best: The 10 commandments of reopening
“Businesses won’t survive if people don’t understand the value. As restaurants, we now have the opportunity to make people understand the real value of things.”
50 Best: How chef Janaina Rueda is helping to save Brazil’s restaurants
“The time to make change is now – that’s our role. If cooking is a political act, let’s do it properly. Let’s change things.”
50 Best: How Slovenian chef Ana Ros is overcoming coronavirus
“We have every right to be scared and to panic, but we should also be positive and creative. After every rain, the sun comes out”
50 Best: Helena Rizzo on the inspiration behind Maní
“Brazil is such a diverse country. Our cuisine is like a patchwork quilt with a mix of influences that are similar but different; distant, yet always connected”
50 Best: René Redzepi on failure, the future and ditching aggression
“It felt like we were in a giant spaceship, on the runway going up. With each success, you are narrowed in.”
Nat Geo Traveller: Umami in the Amazon
Flavour-packed, nutrient-rich ají negro, an Amazonian condiment overlooked for generations, has been given a new lease of life
Nat Geo Traveller: Soul food at Refettorio Gastromotiva in Rio
Right before the doors open, there’s a moment of nervousness; a buzz of anticipation, of butterflies in bellies. Indoors, 15 volunteers line up against the wall, like schoolchildren on the first day of class.
Condé Nast Traveller: Santiago Lastra
After being picked by René Redzepi to lead Noma’s sell-out pop-up in Tulum, the Mexican chef is set to open his first restaurant, Kol, in London
50 Best: Pedro Miguel Schiaffino – Protect the Amazon, save our food future
“We are losing traditions and knowledge, and once it’s gone, there is no way to get it back because much of it is transmitted aurally”
50 Best: Introducing the Best of the Best
Oops! I Dropped the Lemon Tart. Five Ages of Parmigiano Reggiano. The Crunchy Part of the Lasagne. What do these three dishes have in common?
Interview: Gaggan Anand on restaurant ‘suicide’
“Every artist dreams of suicide, and this is my suicide. Gaggan will never come back, never resurface as a restaurant”
Interview: Daniela Soto-Innes on immigrant culture and a happy kitchen
“Cosme is not just a restaurant, it’s more of a cultural institution. We might not know everything about cooking but we all strive to do the best we can”
Inside Odette: The Best Restaurant in Asia 2019
“I realised that I had started to become a mature chef when I started to remove things from plates rather than adding and adding and adding”
Interview: Garima Arora, Asia’s Best Female Chef
“As Indian chefs, we need to change how people perceive Indian food”
Travel: exploring Peru’s Amazon with Jock Zonfrillo
“We’re speaking a language of food. Gastronomy can create change, there’s no question about it.”
Travel: exploring Peru’s coast with Daniela Soto-Innes
“The message is: know where your fish comes from. Peru is the land of ceviche, but how are we going to be Peru without fish?”
Why Colombia’s peace process is paving the way for better gastronomy
Chefs are cooking for the first time with ingredients they didn’t even know they had because much of their country had been inaccessible under FARC rule.
