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Heston Blumenthal
Thursday, 02 April 2009 13:44    PDF Print E-mail
Heston BlumenthalHeston is a completely self-taught chef. Before opening his restaurant 10 years ago, he had only spent a week working in a professional kitchen, with Raymond Blanc at "Le Manoir Aux Quat' Saisons". He was inspired to be a chef after visiting the three Michelin starred "L'Oustau de Baumaniere" in Provence, when he was a boy and was in awe of the beauty of the cuisine and the restaurant itself.

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Ferran Adrià
Thursday, 02 April 2009 13:29    PDF Print E-mail
Ferran AdriaFerran Adrià Acosta is considered to be one the best chefs in the world. He is of a jovial disposition, as optimistic as can be. How could he be any different: in 1980 he joined the Hotel Playafels de Castelldefels as a dishwasher to earn a bit of money (his first wage was 34,456 pesetas) and now he has been awarded as many trophies as Michael Schumacher. However, Adria has high concentration of reality coursing through his veins. He is from the district of Santa Eulalia in L'Hospitalet and this is as much a part of his training as being a Rothschild, albeit in a very different sense. That is to say, the dishes prepared by Adria might fly, but they invariably obey the Laws of Physics.
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Juan Mari Arzak
Thursday, 02 April 2009 13:11    PDF Print E-mail

Juan Mari ArzakJuan Mari Arzak is one of the great characters of the culinary world. At 65, he may be the grand old man of Spain’s new cuisine, but he has the energy and dynamism of a man one-third his age. He learnt to cook at his mother’s and grandmother’s knees in the family business – the 111 year-old roadside tavern/restaurant “Arzak”. The restaurant is located in the big house that his family built in the village of Alza as a wine-cellar and tavern back in 1897.

 

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Tetsuya Wakuda
Thursday, 02 April 2009 12:52    PDF Print E-mail
Tetsuya Wakuda The culinary history of Tetsuya Wakuda started in Tokyo, in a hotel restaurant where he worked for three years before making the major move in his life to Sydney, Australia. In that fi rst hotel establishment, at a very young age, he learned the basic aspects of western and Japanese cuisine before he had even realised that he wanted to be a chef; indeed, he never attended gastronomy school.
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