René Redzepi, the Danish chef behind one of the world's most successful restaurants noma, has launched an app and website aimed at help you to forage. The app is called VILD MAD, Danish for wild food and is designed to teach you to read the landscape and to discover its culinary potential. Redzepi is known for introducing foods that had been foraged to the fine dining … [Read more...]
Tokyo meets Alba in unique four hands dinner between Enrico Crippa and Zaiyu Hasegawa at Piazza Duomo
When Zaiyu Hasegawa went to Alba the first time it was just a very short visit lasting less than 5 hours. He had been at an event in Milan and couldn't resist a visit to the temple of the white truffle. Little did he know that some time later he would be invited to cook with one of his idols Enrico Crippa, chef of the three Michelin star restaurant Piazza Duomo in … [Read more...]
GELINAZ! strikes back: this time it does Upper-Austria
GELINAZ!, the collective of chefs which each year organises ambitious events across the globe is returning in the summer month of August with an event at Mühltalhof (Neufelden) in Upper Austria. Details of the event have not yet been fully revealed but the lineup of 24 cutting edge chefs (12 men, 12 women) that will first head to Vienna and then to Mültahof has been … [Read more...]
Share a moment of generosity with Brussels chef Pierre Balthazar in aid of Operation Thermos
On 18 September, chef Pierre Balthazar of The Restaurant in Brussels will welcome 70 guests for a charity gastronomic dinner. The proceeds from the event will go to the not-for-profit association Operation Thermos. Reservations for the event have opened now. The event is expected to finance 2,000 meals for those most in need. This is not the first charitable gesture of chef … [Read more...]
Belgian Blenders: bringing Belgian coffee roasters to the fore
Ine Vanheyste, founder and CEO of Belgian Blenders is on a mission to introduce Belgian coffee and its roasters to the world and bring them to the fore. Italy may be world famous for its coffee and its coffee culture but few people know that the Antwerp harbour in Belgium is store to the world' largest coffee warehouses in the world with the capacity to store 350,000 tonnes … [Read more...]
