I have never been an early morning person. But I still remember the days when my father used to wake me up early to go fishing with him. I used to relish the time with him. I used to love the anticipation and the preparation that went into the fishing. My father would prepare the fishing bait which either consisted of bread with fermented cheese that had been left in jars in … [Read more...]
GELINAZ! event in Austria starts with lunch at Konstantin Filippou
The GELINAZ! DOES UPPER AUSTRIA event started with a lunch hosted by the chef of Michelin starred Vienna restaurant Konstantin Filippou at his second restaurant O'Boufe. Among the chefs that were present for this first lunch were Momofuku Ko in New York, Ana Roš of Hiša Franko, Kobarid in Slovenia and voted the World's 50 Best Female chef for 2017, SLOVENIA – W50BR 2017 Best … [Read more...]
Preparations in full swing as GELINAZ! DOES UPPER AUSTRIA is just one week away
When the tickets for GELINAZ! DOES UPPER AUSTRIA went out on sale on Thursday 13 July they did not take long to sell out. Within 7 minutes, all the 140 tickets had been sold in what promises to be the most ambitious project undertaken by this collective of chefs. GELINAZ! co-curator Alexandra Swenden, who curates the events together with Andrea Petrini told Food and Wine … [Read more...]
Weekly roundup of great reads on food and wine #120
‘If the children grow it themselves, they’re more likely to eat it’: “These are peas,” says a tiny girl in a red bucket hat, her face a tapas of freckles. “We eat them for snack time. They just taste like ordinary peas; like you’d eat for your dinner.” I am standing in the Marlborough School allotment, tucked into the side of a sunny hill in Falmouth, Cornwall, surrounded by … [Read more...]
Maria Canabal and the difficult plight of women in the food and restaurant world
Maria Canabal, journalist and founder of Parabere Forum is on a mission to raise awareness on the importance of gender balance in the food industry. She has the figures to prove that the plight of women in the restaurant as well as the food industry is not something that would make any industry proud. Women are paid 28 per cent less than men in the industry making it the … [Read more...]
