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Dubai chefs! Perfect your pastry and baking skills with Richemont Masterbaker

Looking to enhance your knowledge and skills in pastry and baking? Richemont Masterbaker - the region’s first specialised bakery and pastry institution located in Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai, provides a modern, comprehensive bakery and pastry education programme to all aspiring chefs in the region. Through the school’s specialised programmes, chefs can upgrade

Taste New Zealand Chef of the Year 2017

Take a look at the Taste New Zealand Chef of the Year competition which was held throughout 2017. In total, 30 Chefs competed across the four heats with James Knight-Pacheco from Vida Hotels & Resorts being crowned the winner at The Pro Chef Middle East Awards this November. The prize

Taste New Zealand – Chef of the Year 2017 – Meat Heat

The Taste New Zealand Chef of the Year Competition is an opportunity for UAE-based professional chefs to create dishes using a range of fresh New Zealand ingredients. Professional UAE chefs are invited to prepare dishes using New Zealand ingredients at three heats in 2017. Two winners will be selected from

Taste New Zealand – Chef of the Year 2017 – Poultry Heat

The Taste New Zealand Chef of the Year Competition is an opportunity for UAE-based professional chefs to create dishes using a range of fresh New Zealand ingredients. Professional UAE chefs are invited to prepare dishes using New Zealand ingredients at three heats in 2017. Two winners will be selected from

Taste New Zealand – Chef of the Year 2017 – Seafood Heat

The Taste New Zealand Chef of the Year Competition is an opportunity for UAE-based professional chefs to create dishes using a range of fresh New Zealand ingredients. Professional UAE chefs are invited to prepare dishes using New Zealand ingredients at three heats in 2017. Two winners will be selected from

Taste New Zealand Chef of the Year Competition 2016

This annual professional chefs' competition is an opportunity for UAE-based chefs to create dishes using a range of fresh New Zealand ingredients.

Top of the world

Not normally thought of as a food destination, the distinctive cuisine of Nepal comes as a pleasant surprise to many drawn to the country for either its spectacular scenery or Buddhist heritage. Similar in many ways to North Indian dishes, Nepalese cuisine is different enough to intrigue and delight. Nepal's cultural

Check in and dine in

With airline food so universally poor, unless you're sitting in First Class, an increasing number of international airports are not looking at celebrity and high profile chefs to provide excellent food airside - by mid-June, for example, Heathrow will have three from Ramsay, Blumenthal and a quartet of female chefs.

A CUT above

With a food empire that spans much more than 20 fine dining restaurants, you'd think chef/restauranteur and Wolfgang Puck might think about slowing down a bit as he approaches 65. No, he says, as more books, catering contracts, casual restaurants, licensed products and more continue to flow from the man

A family affair

Heading the newly opened Don Alfonso restaurant located in Shangri La Hotel on Sheikh Zayed road, we chat to Head Chef Christian de Nadai about his recent arrival to Dubai and his plans to differentiate his Italian, from others. With an interest in cooking dating back to his traditional Italian upbringing,

A taste of Canada

Proudly standing as the second largest country in the world, it’s no secret that with Canada’s mix of ethnic backgrounds, restaurant-heavy culinary industry and vast landscape, it can be quite challenging to pin-point what exactly Canadian cuisine is all about. With a heavy focus on dairy products and processed grain,

Art and science together

Electrolux Professional has announced an international alliance with WORLDCHEFS, the global network of chefs' associations, aimed at sharing the common knowledge and increasing awareness on specific topics related to sustainable cooking. The new partnership between Electrolux Professional and WORLDCHEFS will launch a number of dedicated exciting activities which will unite the

Life’s a beach

Irish born Chef Gavin Gleeson recently joined the Monte-Carlo Beach Club on Saadiyat Island as Executive Chef, following a career that included Michel-starred restaurants in Dublin and London, as well as Marco Pierre White’s Wheelers in Dubai. But what does he have in his fridge at home? Growing up in a

Brazilian producers aim to beef up meat exports to the UAE

An association representing the Brazilian beef industry is seeking pastures new for its gourmet-quality cuts of Angus beef. The Brazilian Association of Beef Exporters (ABIEC) hosted the ABIEC Gourmet Beef Event in association with the events company Sopexa in a bid to promote exports of Brazilian Halal-certified Angus beef. The dinner event

A bumpy ride

The UAE’s hospitality sector has encountered copious challenges in the past few years and though the industry is beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel, stability is not yet on the horizon. Sidharth Mehta highlights some of the vital factors that have attributed to the sector’s ongoing

The eggs factor: Full circle

Having begun his culinary journey in 2005 after graduating from the Institute of Hotel Management in Bangalore, Chef Pravish Shetty worked as a Commis 3 in Sloane’s all-day-dining restaurant at Grosvenor House Dubai. He soon ventured to the hotel’s award-winning restaurant Indego by Vineet after his talent, hard work and

Catering for tomorrow

Food and water are the basic requirements for human survival, and yet each day millions of people still go without. At the turn of the millennia the United Nations (UN) pledged to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger by 2015. But, as the last of the sand trickled from the hourglass,

Back to the roots

Upon reading Plated Heirlooms it is clear to see that the book is written with love, passion and emotion from start to finish. No ordinary cookbook, the creative piece by chef and writer Dima Al Sharif is filled with mouth-watering recipes and attention-grabbing tales of Palestine, a country immersed in

Perspectives on plating

Chefs are artists: the only difference is that their creations are edible. If the kitchen is the studio where colours are thrown together, discarded and hashed out again then the plate is the gallery on which the final creation hangs. Plating is an art. And, like any iconic artist, the

Avoiding food faux pas

There are a number of stages at which the quality and integrity of our food can become compromised, including direct or indirect exposure to pests, pesticides, pathogens and other harmful bacteria. All these can lead to food poisoning and other related diseases. From the farm to our forks, as Dubai