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Chetan Sharma is chef and owner of Bibi restaurant in the heart of Mayfair, London, which serves plant-forward, modern Indian cuisine. Chef Sharma demonstrates several preparations of locally-grown tomatoes, dressed in smoked scallop roe and green mango powder, alongside house-made ricotta infused with dried mint and nigella seeds. Watch the full documentary and find recipes here!

Bibi restaurant is located in the Mayfair borough of London, and serves plant-forward modern Indian cuisine in a fine-dining setting. Chetan Sharma,chef and owner of Bibi, and demonstrates kohlrabi nimbu pani, folding petals of smoked kohlrabi to form a rose and serving it with pineberries, kaji lemon ceviche, a jalapeño and egg white emulsion, puffed quinoa, and citrus leaf chaat masala. Watch th...

Chetan Sharma is chef and owner of Bibi restaurant in the heart of Mayfair, London. Bibi features an Indian-inspired and produce-led menu that Chef Sharma describes as accessible fine dining. Chef Sharma talks about starting to cook at age 17, working in Michelin-starred restaurants, and how his PhD in physics helps him run a restaurant. Bibi opened in 2021, and is named after Chef Sharma’s two gr...

Executive Head Chef Philip Kearsey, of Michelin-starred Pied à Terre restaurant in London, shares how he makes his vegan dish of white asparagus Bavoise with pickled green strawberries, hazelnuts and nasturtium. Watch the full documentary and find recipes here!

Executive Head Chef Philip Kearsey of Michelin-starred Pied à Terre restaurant, in London, shares how he makes his dish,”Textures of Lion’s Mane.” The lion’s mane mushroom is served grilled, fried, powdered, pickled, shaved, roasted, and simmered to bring out its different flavors and textures. The lion’s mane is plated with a barley and pine nut porridge, barley chips, sea herbs, and Madeira crea...

David Moore is a restaurateur and owner of Pied à Terre Restaurant in West London. Pied à Terre is a Michelin-starred restaurant focusing on local British produce, prepared using French cooking techniques with a modern twist. David Moore talks about his dynamic career in the hospitality industry and working with the all-star chefs of Britain’s restaurant scene through the decades. Watch the full d...

King Cook is chef and owner of King Cookdaily in Shoreditch, East London. Here, he shows us his dish inspired by larrp, the national dish of Laos, in the kitchen of his plant-based take-out restaurant. He calls his version a Lao Bowl. To make his vegan version, he replaces traditional chicken with crumbled seitan and sliced mushrooms and uses vegan fish sauce. The key to the nutty flavor is toppin...

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King Cook is chef and owner of King Cookdaily in Shoreditch, east London, a takeout restaurant that serves vegan world cuisines, with an emphasis on Southeast Asia. Chef Cook talks about taking inspiration from Thai street food, growing up helping his dad in pub and hotel kitchens, and working in Michelin-starred restaurants. He reconnected with his Buddhist roots and became vegan, then transition...

Edit restaurant serves a plant-based menu using ingredients sourced from local, small-scale farms, foragers, and independent producers. Located in east London’s Hackney borough, Edit’s mission is to challenge traditional thinking and wasteful practices in the food industry. Elly Ward is founder of Edit restaurant and introduces us to the restaurant’s dish of asparagus. Chef Anna Bolechowska and Ch...

Edit restaurant, in the heart of east London’s Hackney borough, serves modern British fare with local, seasonal, and sustainable produce at the center of every plate. Elly Ward, the founder of Edit, introduces us to the restaurant’s dish of chicken of the woods mushrooms. Chefs Anna Bolechowska and Cheyenne Cunney demonstrate how the dish comes together, with chicken of the woods mushrooms, striki...

Edit restaurant in East London features a modern British plant-based menu using ingredients sourced from local, small-scale farms, foragers, and independent producers. Its founder, restaurateur Elly Ward’s background is actually in architecture. She talks about the marriage of her two passions—extending the sustainable ethos from the restaurant’s food to its interiors. In designing the restaurant,...

Inside the Plant-Forward Kitchen: London is the third installment of an educational video series produced by The Culinary Institute of America—a first-of-its-kind video reference library documenting plant-forward cuisines around the world. In this chapter, we explore the markets and restaurants of London and Cambridge, UK. Among the featured chefs are David Moore and Chef Phil Kearsey of Michelin-...

One of Chef Mark Miller’s favorite Japanese meals is tonkatsu, and here he shows us a new twist on this classic dish. In place of traditional pork, he uses a brined rack of lamb that he breads in panko and serves with tonkatsu sauce. He serves the lamb on top of a refreshing and colorful salad of corn, red peppers, cherry tomatoes and snap peas. This video series was created by the Culinary Instit...

Learn how to cook a whole lamb over live fire from Chefs Stephen Barber and Kipp Ramsey from Farmstead Long Meadow Ranch in California’s Napa Valley. They coat the lamb with a rosemary, harissa and vindaloo spice rub, and cook the lamb on a rack over a cherry and oak wood fire. They serve the lamb with a chimichurri sauce, potatoes and peppers.      Recipe at: http://www.ciaprochef.com/americanlam...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is a collection of more than 4,000 culinary artifacts. The exhibit includes a Savoy Tiered Cake Pan Set. The cake set is named after the type of cake baked in it, the Biscuit de Savoie, and was made in France between 1950 - 1970. Biscuit de Savoie (also known as Savoy cake) is a traditional...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is a collection of more than 4,000 culinary artifacts. The exhibit includes a copper and brass turbotiere pan from France, dating from 1950 – 1970. Turbotiere pans were designed specifically to poach a whole turbot, a type of flatfish. Turbotieres, like this one here, are still available to...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is home to more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a copper and iron daubiere, dating from 1780 – 1810 in France, when people used to cook their meals in a hearth. A daubiere is a type of rectangular pot that has a uniq...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is home to more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a George Jones and Sons Cheese Cover. This decorative glazed majolica ceramic cheese cover was intended for serving Stilton cheese and was made between 1866 – 1886 in S...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is home to more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma Founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a collection of terrines, dating from the 1700s through the 1900s. A terrine refers both to the dish it’s baked in, and to the dish itself. The literal translation of “...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is a collection of more than 4,000 culinary artifacts. The exhibit’s collection of butter churners, includes an example from an American Shaker community, dating from 1850 – 1890. This butter churn uses a plunge-like agitator paddle to make the butter. Even with several helping hands, makin...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, is home to more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a collection of early examples of food choppers. One hundred years before food processors became ubiquitous in American home kitchens, there were ingenious hand-cranked...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, houses more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a collection of copper water urns. By the end of the 18th century, in the homes of the upper and the middle classes of England, no dining room was complete without a silver...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, houses more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a collection of duck presses from France, dating from 1910 - 1945. Also known as a canardière in French, a duck press is used to prepare canard à la rouennaise, or "duck in...

The Chuck Williams Culinary Arts Museum, located at The Culinary Institute of America at Copia, in Napa, CA, houses more than 4,000 culinary artifacts from the Williams Sonoma founder’s personal collection. The exhibit includes a variety of porcelain cow creamers dating from the 1870s through the 1970s. The collection’s early examples of cow creamers are quite realistic, depicting lifelike cows wi...