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.”
Chefs
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
Noble Rot: Twins Garden vegetable wines
Sergey and Ivan Berezutskiy are as different as identical twins could be. One loves science, the other loves nature. One is talkative and confident, the other shy. They bicker all the time.
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”
Postcards: São Paulo’s food scene
Beyond the beach capital of Rio de Janeiro, the jungle capital of Manaus and the capital city of Brasilia, there’s São Paulo, the undisputed capital of gastronomy
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.
Interview: Gaggan Anand, Gaggan
“Ferran Adrià motivated me at El Bulli and now I’m here to motivate the next generation.”
Dan Barber takes farm to table to a new level
When Barber asked Mazourek why he didn’t make a squash that tasted good, the breeder responded by saying that nobody had ever asked him to breed specifically with flavour in mind.
Interview and video: André Chiang
“Perfection doesn’t exist. It’s whether we feel that the moment is completed. I have a bigger mission now.”
Video interview: Daniel Humm, Eleven Madison Park
“Only in the last two years have I found myself as a chef.”
Food trip: Slovenia
A three-day jaunt in a nifty hire car was the perfect amount of time to take in the capital and the iconic Lake Bled before combining peaceful countryside with destination dining at Hisa Franko.
