chefs

The winners of the ECKART 2016 award: outstanding achievements in the art of cooking and fine dining

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 ECKART 2016 award winners: Andreas Caminada, Dominique Crenn, Sebastian Copeland and the Munich Viktualienmarkt. “Chef of the century” Eckart Witzigmann and his jury announce honorees. The jury appointed by “Chef Of The Century” Eckart Witzigmann has made its selection: This year’s international Eckart Witzigmann Awards (ECKART) will go to Andreas Caminada (Switzerland), Dominique Crenn (USA), Sebastian Copeland (USA) … Read more

Massimo Bottura, the ‘poet’ chef with the best restaurant in the world

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The Italian has topped the list of the world’s best restaurants with a trademark combination of tradition and fantasy

The master of macarons, Pierre Hermé takes the title of Best Pastry Chef 2016

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World-leading Chef Pâtissier Pierre Hermé Crowned Best Pastry Chef 2016. Macarons may be his speciality, but Hermé has mastered the rest of the pastry chef’s repertoire. Pierre Hermé (54), the man that Vogue called “the Picasso of Pastry”, won the title of Best Pastry Chef of the year, a trophy and title awarded by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. … Read more

French leave: Pierre Koffmann’s final meal

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The three-Michelin starred chef would evoke the pace and pleasures of Provence by feasting on bouillabaisse and his grandmother’s apple dessert

Fifteen years in the world of food

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Observer Food Monthly, our award-winning magazine, is celebrating its 15th anniversary. We look back on the people, issues and moments that defined an era in which food became central to British culture

Why are there so few female chefs?

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Despite huge changes in kitchen culture, fewer than a fifth of professional chefs in the UK are female, down on last year. Is its reputation for being a tough, male-dominated job still putting women off – or is that image unfair?