World of Mouth podcast

Eric Robertson is the co-chef of restaurant Pearl Morissette in the Niagara region of Canada. As a young chef he left Canada for Europe, where he worked at some of the best restaurants in Belgium, France and with Magnus Nilsson at Fäviken in Sweden. We will hear how Eric Robertson, after returning to Canada, started working at Pearl Morissette in 2017 together with his friend, chef Daniel Hadida,...

Daniel Berlin is the chef and restaurateur of restaurant VYN in Southern Sweden. He has a strong connection to the land and as a young chef trained and worked for the best chefs in the region. In 2020 he closed his two-Michelin-starred restaurant Daniel Berlin Krog, one of Sweden’s best restaurants, and soon after, his wife passed away. We will hear how Daniel Berlin a few years later started a ne...

Garima Arora is the chef and owner of Restaurant Gaa in Bangkok. She was born in a Punjabi family and grew up in Mumbai. In 2018, Arora, at the age of 32, earned a Michelin star for her restaurant, and in the following year, Restaurant Gaa made its debut on Asia's 50 Best Restaurants list at No. 16 with the Highest New Entry Award. In the podcast we will also hear about how it is being an Indian c...

Bo Bech is the chef and owner of restaurant Bobe in Copenhagen. He is one of the most famous Danish chefs and a pioneer of the restaurant scene in Copenhagen. He first made his name at Restaurant Paustian, where he earned a Michelin star, before setting up Geist in 2011. Working mostly with Nordic produce, his dishes are personal reflections of him as a chef, of his background and his travels. We...

Will Guidara is a former restaurateur and author of the best-selling book Unreasonable Hospitality, where he chronicles the lessons in service and leadership he learned during his restaurant career. He is the former co-owner of Eleven Madison Park, which under his leadership received three Michelin stars, four stars from the New York Times and in 2017 was named #1 on the list of the World’s 50 Bes...

Atsushi Tanaka is the chef of restaurant A.T in Paris. He was born in Japan and grew up in Kobe. As child, his interest for cooking started after he watched the Iron Chef tv show, and at 16, he decided to become a chef after reading the avant garde cookbook of French chef Pierre Gagnaire. He worked in Tokyo, Paris, Spain, Copenhagen and Stockholm, and ten years ago opened his own restaurant, A.T,...

Jake Kellie is the owner and head chef of the open-fire restaurant Arkhé in Adelaide, Australia. Born in New South Wales, at the age of 16, Jake Kellie passion for cooking started. He studied cooking and travelled overseas to cook and learn from some of the world’s best chefs, like Heston Blumenthal of The Fat Duck and Brett Graham of The Ledbury in the UK, and Scott Pickett and Matt Moran in Aust...

Willem Hiele is the chef of restaurant Willem Hiele in Koksijde on the coast of Belgium. He grew up in the towns of Ostend and Koksijde in a family of fishermen. Everything in his restaurant is in some way connected to the sea, fish, seafood and other produce from his region, and he’s also a passionate surfer. Trained as a baker, Willem Hiele moved over to cooking and developed his own style of th...

José Avillez is the Portuguese Chef of Belcanto in Lisbon and seven other restaurants in Portugal, one in Dubai and one in Macao. Cooking has always been a passion for José Avillez, but it was only in his senior year of studying Business Communication that he decided to become a chef. He worked and trained with many famous chefs, like Antoine Westermann in Portugal, Alain Ducasse and Eric Frechon...

Daniel Calvert is the chef at Sézanne in Tokyo. He grew up in southeast England and worked his way through the star restaurants Pied a Terre in London, Epicure in Paris, Per Se in New York and Belon in Hong Kong before moving to Tokyo. We’ll hear about Daniel Calvert’s life and work across the world’s culinary capitals and why Tokyo is every top chef’s dream city. The recommendations mentioned in...

Cocktail bartender Ryan Chetiyawardana, a k a Mr Lyan, is the owner of the cocktail bars Super Lyan, Dandelyan, Cub, Lyaness, Silver Lyan and Seed Library. He grew up in a family where food and drink were the heart of the household. To develop his passion for food, he began his career training as a chef, but missed the personal interaction with customers. We will hear Ryan Chetiyarwardana tell abo...

Palisa Anderson is a farmer at Boon Luck Farm and a second generation restaurateur at the Chat Thai restaurants in Sydney, Australia. Her mother started Chat Thai in 1989, and Palisa Anderson and her family have expanded the business to multiple venues and an organic farm near Byron Bay. We’ll hear Palisa Anderson tell about her childhood in her mother’s restaurants and how she, after working abro...

Vicky Cheng is the chef and owner of restaurants Wing and Vea in Hong Kong. He was born in Hong Kong and raised in Toronto, Canada. His passion for cooking started at an early age, and as a young chef, he was classically trained under some of the best French chefs, including Daniel Boulud in New York. We’ll hear about Vicky Cheng returning to his birth place Hong Kong and creating his own style of...

Ben Shewry is the chef and owner of Attica in Melbourne. He grew up on a remote sheep and cattle farm in Taranaki, a mountainous coastal region on the west coast of New Zealand’s North Island. Shewry arrived in Melbourne in 2002 and worked with chefs like Andrew McConnell. He’s been the head chef at Attica since 2005 and made the World’s 50 Best Restaurants list in 2010. Ben Shewry also featured i...

Lennox Hastie is the chef and owner of Firedoor Sydney, Australia’s only fully wood fueled restaurant. He spent his early career working at Michelin Star restaurants across the UK, France, and Spain. While working in the Basque country, he realised he had lost focus on the most important in cooking: quality ingredients. He got a job at the legendary open fire restaurant Asador Etxebarri and worked...

Dan Barber is the chef and co-owner of Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns in New York, and the author of the book “The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food.” His opinions on food and agricultural policy have appeared in the New York Times, along with many other publications. Dan Barber is also an agronomist, an environmentalist, an activist, and a powerful agent of change. We will he...

Cristina Bowerman is a chef with an innovative take on regional Italian fare at her Michelin starred restaurant Glass Hostaria in Rome. Born in Puglia, in southern Italy, Bowerman originally studied foreign languages and law and worked as a graphic designer, before deciding to pursue a degree in Culinary Arts in Austin, Texas. We’ll hear about Bowerman’s return to Italy, where she first worke...

Mitsuharu Tsumura, or Micha, as everybody calls him, is the chef at Maido in Lima, Peru. Of Japanese-Peruvian background, as a young student he moved to the United States where he graduated in Culinary Arts from University. Before returning to Peru, Mitsuharu Tsumura lived in Osaka to specialize in Japanese cuisine. In the podcast, we will hear how his passion for Japanese and Peruvian cuisine led...

Rosio Sanchez is the chef and founder of Sanchez and Hija de Sanchez in Copenhagen, Denmark. She was born and raised in the South Side of Chicago, and grew up eating Mexican food. She began cooking at 19 and worked with some of America’s most famous chefs, like Wylie Dufresne at wd-50, before moving to Copenhagen to work under René Redzepi at Noma. We’ll hear about Rosio Sanchez big decision...

Chef JP McMahon is a chef, restaurateur and author in Galway, Ireland. He is the owner of restaurants Aniar and Cava Bodega and globally known as the founder and director of the Food on the Edge chefs Symposium in Galway. We’ll hear about JP McMahon’s chef career that started in Dublin at the age of 15, about his love for Irish oysters and seaweed and how he has created a symposium that unites peo...

Karime López is the chef at Gucci Osteria in Florence, Italy. She was born and raised in Querétaro north of Mexico City and learned the love for good food from her mother and grandmother. As a chef, she’s worked in some of the most prestigious kitchens around the world, from Mugaritz in Spain to Ryugin in Japan, before finally landing in Italy, working for Massimo Bottura. We’ll hear abo...

Vaughan Mabee is the chef at Amisfield restaurant in Queenstown, New Zealand since 2012. He uses local wild seafood, game and foraged produce found in the Central Otago area, and presents them in his creative dishes, accompanied by wines from the Amisfield winery. We’ll hear about Vaughan Mabee’s career that took him from Auckland around the world and back to New Zealand and how he express the uni...

Chef Will Goldfarb lives on the island of Bali, where he runs Room 4 Dessert, a dessert bar focusing on local culture and produce. As one of the world’s most renowned pastry chefs, he’s worked in many legendary restaurants, including El Bulli in Spain and Tetsuya’s in Sydney. He’s also known from the Chef’s Table series on Netflix. We’ll hear about Will Goldfarb’s success, his failures, and his ca...

Chef Petter Nilson is the chef at restaurant Petri in Stockholm, Sweden. He’s had a career spanning over more than 35 years in Sweden and France. Some 15 years ago, he was part of a small group of the world’s most creative chefs, among them Massimo Bottura, René Redzepi and Inaki Aizpitarte. We will hear about Petter Nilsson’s time among the very best and hear his personal view about being a chef....

Chef Himanshu Saini is one of Dubai's most acclaimed chefs. His mission is to change the perception of Indian cuisine and elevate how we experience Indian food today. His restaurant, Trèsind Studio, is his ode to the culinary legacy of his roots and his perspective on Indian cuisine. We will hear about Himanshu Saini’s childhood in an agricultural family in India, with plenty of fresh produce, her...