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Meet Daniel Boulud in Dubai
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I first interviewed chef and restaurateur Daniel Boulud in the Cayman Islands for Ritz-Carlton’s annual Cayman Cookout beach bash in 2014. Digging out my interviews for FooDiva and, separately, for...
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Meet chef Alain Ducasse at his first restaurant in Dubai
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The legend that is chef Alain Ducasse has landed in Dubai. Softly spoken. Calm. Collected. And slightly reticent. His publicist acts as a translator when we meet over an 8am coffee and...
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Meet chef Thomas Keller
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Chef Thomas Keller has no intention of bringing his three-Michelin starred US restaurants The French Laundry and Per Se, or his one-star Bouchon Bistro to the UAE due to lack of access to fresh ingredients...
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Meet chef David Myers
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He calls himself the ‘gypsy chef’, spending more time in Tokyo, Singapore and Hong Kong at his six restaurant concepts, than he does in his home city of Los Angeles. But that’s not surprising...
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Meet chef Chris Galvin
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I first stumbled upon chef Chris Galvin (and his younger brother Jeff) when they opened Terence Conran’s Orrery in Marylebone in 1997. I used to work round the...
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Meet the two chef Daniels; Boulud and Humm – dessert course
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I’ve given you a peek into Cayman Cookout, shared local and global restaurant predictions from some big name chefs, and interviewed Anthony
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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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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 Chef Nobu in Dubai
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Dubai; Sauntering into Nobu at Atlantis, I find the chef himself, Nobu(yuki) Matsuhisa standing behind his sushi counter grinning shyly as the camera clicks away for a publicity shoot.
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