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.”
Chefs
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
Condé Nast Traveller: Manu, Curitiba
“My grandmother, Lelinha, put down all her recipes in her beautiful handwriting and I gathered them into a book”
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.”
Appetite: A London soup kitchen in the time of Covid-19
To many of us, the words ‘breakfast,’ ‘lunch’ and ‘dinner’ signify a beginning, a middle and an end. But when life loses structure, these simple words can lose their meaning
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
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”
