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  Meet Anthony Bourdain, plus restaurant and food predictions from celeb chefs – second course

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  I had every intention of sharing the most mouth-watering snippets from all the celeb chefs I interviewed at Cayman Cookout in this post...

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  A celeb chef culinary holiday for your bucket list – first course

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  I am tucking into breakfast in the all-white Club room sitting next to Eric Ripert (on the next table, not mine sadly), so my groupie chef gazing has...

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  Levant by Anissa Helou – more than just a cookbook

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  “When I was in Gaziantep in south eastern Turkey last year researching my cookbook I visited a large hangar where this man was rolling ceviz sucugu, grape leather for walnut

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  Celebrity chefs dock into Dubai

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  Over the next couple of weeks Dubai will welcome 33 celebrity guest chefs, of which 19 have restaurants with Michelin stars around the world. Now that’s no mean feat for our small fine dining out population, but a testament perhaps to the emirate’s rising status in the...

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  Meet the chef: Atul Kochhar talks menus, curries and Michelin

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  In 2001, two men in London became the very first Indian chefs whose restaurants were each crowned with a Michelin star at exactly the same time. According to Atul Kochhar, “I tease Vineet [Bhatia] because alphabetically I come first!”

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  An interview with an Italian self-taught, celebrity chef

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  He’s a self-taught chef and a rather famous one at that, but otherwise he would have become an anthropologist. His cooking ethos is all about...

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  Dining differently in Dubai…at a chef’s table

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  Dubai; I dine out a lot, in restaurants that is. But I don't often dine INSIDE the kitchen. Not my kitchen, even though on occasion I do, but a restaurant's.

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  Meet Pierre Gagnaire in Dubai

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  He has 12 restaurants around the world including two with three Michelin stars each in France. He's humble and sweet-natured but sometimes, due to the language barrier I expect, can come across as...

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  Shall I share a secret?

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  FooDiva's gonna have to let you in on this little secret...Dubai FINALLY has its very own supper club. Now am not talking the racy Amsterdam import Supperclub which opens at Jumeirah Zabeel Saray any day now, but...

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