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Andrew Wong is the chef of the two Michelin star restaurant A.Wong in London, England. Andrew grew up working in his parents’ restaurant, a straightforward Cantonese restaurant called Kym’s, and had no desire to go into the restaurant business. He went to Oxford to study chemistry, then switched to social anthropology, and then his father passed, so he jumped back into to the restaurant business t...

Robert Bradley is a professor at University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and is the author of the book Eating Peru: A Gastronomic Journey . Robert, or Bob as I have come to know him, was born in New Jersey, and after working in the wine world, started studying art history and archaeology and he followed his curiosities to Peru. There, he started to become interested in Peruvian food and why certain...

Deepanker Khosla, or DK as he is often called, is the chef of the Michelin starred restaurant Haōma in Bangkok, Thailand. He was born in Allahabad, India and breaks a lot of misconceptions of who an Indian chef is supposed to be and what Indian food is supposed to look like. Khosla has managed to make the sustainability of his restaurant something more than just a marketing ploy. Right in the midd...

Juan Sebastián Pérez is the owner of the restaurant Quitu in Quito, Ecuador. I was there for the first time earlier in the year and what I liked the most about it was that it felt like Quito, at least to me. There are a lot of ambitious restaurants in Latin America, that feel like they could be anywhere. Like they equate quality by looking international. At Quitu – the wood tables, the walls, the...

Katie Parla is the New Jersey born, Rome based food writer, cookbook author, tour guide , podcast host and frequent television show guest for anything that happens to include Italy. She has a new book out called Food of the Italian Islands: Recipes From the Sunbaked Beaches, Coastal Villages and Rolling Hillsides of Sicily, Sardinia and Beyond . Read more about her at New Worlder on Substack . --...

Atsushi Tanaka is the Japanese born chef of the restaurant A.T. in Paris, France. Despite being one of the most talented people I know, he has somehow managed to stay off the radar. His restaurant has a Michelin star and he often will go and cook at restaurants around the world, though he doesn’t give a lot of interviews. He’s quiet and elegant rather than in your face and loud, which is refreshin...

Vaughan Mabee is the chef of Amisfield in Queenstown on the South Island of New Zealand. It’s an out of the way restaurant in an already out of the way country. Yet, it seems like he is on to something. Everyone is always looking for the next big thing in fine dining. That restaurant that can bring an element of surprise. An extraordinary experience in an extraordinary place. And New Zealand has a...

Meyling Tang is one of the founders of Fundación CocinaMar , a non-profit organization based in Chile that promotes the well-being of the country’s fisheries and the people that work within it, as well as the seafood restaurant Tres Peces in the port city of Valparaíso. She is also a journalist, specializing in the research into global fisheries. She is perhaps the best person to speak with regard...

Natalia Burakowska is the founder of Terratela , which uses food loss and waste to create a line of sustainable clothing. She is using things like seaweed, corn husks, banana fibers and spoiled milk to create fibers that get transformed into clothing. She is trying to start a conversation within the fashion industry about transparency, in the entire line of production from product to packaging, ab...

Joris Bijdendijk is the chef and owner of the restaurants Rijks , inside of the Rijksmuseum , and Wils , which has an open fire restaurant and a café and bakery. A few years ago he started a foundation called Low Food in 2018 with a group of people that work in the culinary industry. Their aim is to change Dutch cuisine. I know there are a lot of other organizations doing something like this aroun...

Uruguayan-Peruvian photographer Luis Fabini lives in New York and is the author of the books Gauchos and Cowboys of the Americas , for which he spent more than 10 years shooting different cowboys from South America to Alaska. Gauchos come up a lot in our conversation. Their way of life and way of looking at the world. They are what lead him to the project he is working on now, called Harvests, exp...

Alberto Landgraf is the chef of Oteque in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. During our conversation we discuss how he has created a healthy work environment at his restaurant. For him, the culture of the staff, giving them growth opportunities and having a work life balance is integral to how good of an experience the diners have there. It’s a lot of common sense, but it’s refreshing to hear a chef really t...

Jeremy Chan is the chef of the London restaurant Ikoyi , a two Michelin star restaurant built around spice. Jeremy just came out with a book from Phaidon, called Ikoyi: A Journey Through Bold Heat , which describes at length his Chinese-Canadian background, his youth in Hong Kong and England, studying language at Princeton, working in finance, shifting his focus to cooking and how he jumped from k...

Nayan Gowda is the British born winemaker of Indian descent for Jardín Oculto, which makes wines from grapes grown from ancestral, ungrafted vines in the Cinti Valley of Bolivia. I haven’t met Nayan before, but I’ve wanted to speak with him for a long time and understand how he arrived in Bolivia. He’s a fascinating guy and the wines they are making in this corner of Bolivia, not far from Tarija,...

Marko Ayling is the American born, Mexico City based writer of the Substack newsletter The Missive. It’s a dispatch of his life in Mexico and world travels. He is a former Youtuber, who built up a following of more than a million subscribers to his channel Vagabrothers , which he created with his brother more than a decade ago. He talks about what that life was like, how exhausting it was, the ups...

José Gonzales is the chef and owner of the restaurant Al Mercat Dota in the mountains of Costa Rica, which is attached to a small ecolodge. It’s a big change for Jose. He is one of the most talented chefs in Latin America and spent years cooking in France, but for many years Al Mercat was in San Jose. He is someone that could have very easily focused on 50 Best rankings and media attention, but he...

Alejandra Salamanca is a Colombian Culinary Anthropologist and author of Abrazar la Tierra. She is also the executive director of FunLeo. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Chiara Pavan and Francesco Brutto are the chefs at Venissa in Venice, Italy. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Karime Lopez is the chef of Gucci Osteria in Florence, Italy. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Rafa Costa e Silva is the chef of Lasai and Crypto Kitchen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Maria Canabal is a French food journalist and founder of Parabere Forum. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Erik Ramirez is the chef and co-owner of Llama Inn & Llama San in New York City. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Writer of the newsletter Everyday Drinking and author of Godforsaken Grapes, The Cider Revival, and Boozehound. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Zineb Hattab, born in Spain to Moroccan parents, is the chef of the restaurants Kle and Dar in Zurich, Switzerland. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com

Jose Olmedo Carles is the chef of the restaurant Fonda Lo Que Hay in Panama City, Panama. -- Host: Nicholas Gill Co-host: Juliana Duque Produced by Nicholas Gill & Juliana Duque Recording & Editing by New Worlder  Email: thenewworlder@gmail.com Read more at New Worlder: https://www.newworlder.com