People & Chefs
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Quique Dacosta | When Food Becomes An Enigma
Each person is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else, and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle. ∼ Theodore Zeldin enigma ɪˈnɪɡmə/ noun noun: enigma; plural noun: enigmas a person or thing that is mysterious or difficult to understand. Difficult to understand, yet beautiful and stimulating to the senses… mysterious yet slowly revealing like a poetry… that is how I will describe my experience at Enigma. Did I comprehend it? Will I go back to it? Will I recommend it? For now, one thing is certain, this is a first of a kind of a dining concept…
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ChefXChange | When A Chef Comes Home
Get to know the Chef and you will start to enjoy dining out even more. ∼ John Walters Nominated for #MasalaAwards2015 as Best Asian Blog! To vote for me, please click here... masala.com/awards And how much better can you know your chef than when he comes home into your own kitchen to cook? And serves delicious food – course by course, and leaves your kitchen scrumptiously clean? It does sound like a fairy Godmother descending into the kitchen and creating magic with the wave of her wand and disappearing in the end, while you are left behind to rewind the good times and burp out loud without any qualm of…
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Keeping Up With Chef Vikas Khanna | Igniting Sheer Passion!
The Power of Food is really Spiritual. It not only brings the whole family together on the same table, but also brings the whole world together. ∼ Vikas Khanna From receiving acclaim for his good looks as well as his passion for cooking, it is hard to keep up with all the titles that are conferred on Chef Vikas Khanna. A restaurateur, a TV host, an author, a humanitarian and of course the Michelin star association – there are too many overwhelming feathers in the cap that he so humbly wears upon his head. I have had the pleasure of meeting him in Dubai on two occasions – once celebrating…
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Ronda Locatelli | The Truffle Story With Giorgio Locatelli
Poetry on Truffles! No, I haven’t been brought up with the knowledge of these ‘fruiting body of a subterranean Ascomycete fungus’ that creates such an exciting topic of conversation amongst my foodie friends. It was not until I read a post written by Francine (aka Life in the Food Lane) that I became completely mersmerised by truffles. In her post, The Truffle Hunter and his Dog, she writes about her experience of hunting for truffles in the woods of Alba, in the Piedmont region of Northern Italy. I learn about truffle dogs and how these specially trained dogs hunt down quality truffles and rejects the inferior ones. She writes… Truffle…
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Greg Malouf | Unlocking Of Clé Dubai
A home grown restaurant – a home grown destination restaurant – a home grown fine dining destination restaurant – a Michelin starred Chef’s home grown fine dining destination restaurant (striking the previous part after a Michelin controversy that ensued with a comment left behind by a very respected food expert and some email exchanges wit the restaurant PR) – the tags had been increasing with each passing day and the curiosity that had been building up surrounding Greg Malouf’s Clé Dubai, was unlocked to the public on the 13th October, 2014. For me, the excitement that leads to the build up of a restaurant is gaining more momentum than the…
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Omnia Gourmet by Chef Silvena | Decadence, Deliciousness & A Lot of Expectations!
Everybody in Dubai knows celebrity chef Silvena Rowe right now. Solving weekly kitchen problems as the Domestic Diva in the popular Friday Magazine and doling out scrumptious exotic-do-able-at-home recipes, she is probably the only resident celebrity chef in Dubai. She is also the only celebrity chef on my speed dial. I have been following her journey in the UAE since last year when I got the first phone from her, that took me to Capital Club that very night to experience her magic. Earlier this year, I had tasted the exclusive ‘Taste of Organic Arabia’ three course meal featuring 98% local organic produce at her pop-up restaurant at the Dubai Food…
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P.F. Chang’s | Dynamite Shrimp For Breakfast And Talking To Philip Chiang
‘So what do you think is the reason that you like Dynamite Shrimp?’ or ‘Do you think that PF Chang’s will work in India?’ – well, these were the questions that I was being asked by Mr Philip Chiang, the co founder of P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, the popular American casual dining restaurant chain. And I thought that I had come to interview him! In exchange of an exclusive lunch invite to celebrate the opening of another of P.F. Chang’s many outlets (in the World Trade Center Mall in Abu Dhabi) today, I met up with him yesterday in the early morning hours as he visited the restaurant in the…
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Sumac Octopus with Pomegranate | Recipe From Celebrity Chef Silvena Rowe
Sumac Octopus with Pomegranate Category – Seafood/Salad; Cuisine type – Ottoman/Middle Eastern Courtesy: Chef Silvena Rowe and The H Dubai Celebrity Chef Silvena Rowe chose to share this amazing recipe from her cookbook Orient Express, specially for my blog readers. The salad looks very dramatic and vibrant, just like Silvena’s personality. It’s easy, uses the popular local spice Sumac and can easily be stirred up. For the printable recipes → Serves 8 persons Ingredients Octopus – 1, whole weighing around 1.5kg White Wine Vinegar – 3 tbsp Lemon – 1/2, juiced Bay leaves – 2 Black Peppercorns – 3 Sea salt– 1/2 tbsp Pomegranate Molasses – 2 tbsp Caster Sugar…
