The magazine Le Chef has released the list of top 100 chefs for 2016. French Michel Bras of restaurant Le Suquet is the top choice this year. The top 10 includes no less than 6 French chefs including Pierre Gagnaire, Alain Ducassee, Pascal Barbot, Eirc Frechon, Emmanuel Renaut. Another, Benoit Violier is French/Swiss. The magazine consulted 528 2 and 3 Michelin star chefs … [Read more...]
Archives for 2016
Q&A with Syrco Bakker: ‘Forget about the things you cannot control’
Syrco Bakker is the chef of Pure C and one of the rising stars in the Netherlands. He has had stints with Gordon Ramsay, Jonnie Boer and Sergio Herman at Oud Sluis before being entrusted to head the kitchen at Pure C in 2010. Herman described Syrco as a chef with an inexhaustible amount of creativity. "He is extremely talented and just as passionate as me," Sergio says about … [Read more...]
Colatura di Alici from Cetara – with so little you get so much
Colatura di Alici could easily be one of the most elusive ingredients that I have yet to come across. A fermented anchovy sauce produced in Campania and specifically in the village of Cetara between Salerno and Naples, it is often considered as 'liquid gold'. Try it and you will know why the term 'liquid gold' is no exaggeration. Cetera is a fishing village that is famous … [Read more...]
Weekly round-up of great reads on food and wine #63
Your dose of inspiration this week should start with this article about Mikael Jonsson of Hedone who traded a career as a successful lawyer in Sweden with being a Michelin starred chef in London. He decided to do this when he was 44 when he says it started to grind in the back of his head that he should take his home-cooking skills and see how could he could become as a chef. … [Read more...]
Why Michelin may have gone a step too far with acquisition of BookaTable
Michelin may have gone a step too far with its acquisition of BookaTable, an online restaurant reservation platform earlier this week. With the acquisition of BookaTable, Michelin becomes the European online restaurant reservation leader. But the company that is also famous for its Michelin guides is likely to face criticism for a huge conflict of interest. When … [Read more...]
