Tekuna Gachechiladze is the chef and founder of Café Littera in Tbilisi, Georgia. She has been called the godmother of Georgia’s culinary revolution and fuses thousand year old Georgian flavours with contemporary international influences. We will hear how Tekuna Gachechiladze, to her family’s disappointment, switched her academic career to chef-restaurateur and how important the ceremony around eating is for the Georgians, especially in times of oppression and political turmoil. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In the first episode of the World of Mouth Destination guides, recorded in Helsinki not far from the World of Mouth headquarters, we’re meeting local chefs and World of Mouth experts Helena Puolakka from restaurant Savoy, Ina Niiniketo from Canvas Canteen and Tom Hansen from Restaurant Kuurna. In the podcast they will tell what makes Helsinki unique as a culinary destination and guide you to the best places to eat and drink in town, from local must eats, like a 3 euro meat pie snack, to the best Michelin starred fine dining experiences. This podcast will cover all your needs during your Helsinki stay. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, sourcing the best Canadian seasonal produce from producers and their own farm. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 new restaurant in a new place, and how he sees his role as a chef and restaurateur in a small rural region. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 chef in Bangkok and about the status of the Indian cuisine. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 hear Bo Bech tell about the birth of the modern restaurant wave in Copenhagen and about his creative cooking process. He will also reveal his favourite restaurants in Copenhagen and in the rest of the world. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Best Restaurants. He is the host of the Welcome Conference, an annual hospitality symposium. In the podcast Will Guidara will tell his whole story about becoming the best among restaurateurs. He will also reveal the secret to great hospitality and his favourite restaurants in NYC and the rest of the world. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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, in Paris. In his podcast, he will talk about the similarities between the Japanese and French cuisines and which restaurant destinations he loves the most. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Australia. We will also hear how Jake Kellie builds his cooking on great local produce prepared over different temperatures of open fire. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/  Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 the coastal terroir cuisine he is known for today. We will hear how he works on sustainability, and how this philosophy is reflected in the restaurant’s work process and also focusing on minimizing the ecological footprint and maximizing the local impact. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 in Paris, and finally got a traineeship at El Bulli with Ferran Adrià, that changed his career. We will also hear José Avillez tell about the many global influences that the Portuguese cuisine has gotten during hundreds of years. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 about opening his first bar, White Lyan, in London in 2013 as the first cocktail bar in the world to use no perishables, like fruit and even no ice, and how this led him to the center stage of the cocktail world. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 abroad for years, decided to return to Sydney to join the family business. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Chinese cooking mixed with French gastronomic techniques at his two restaurants. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 in the first season of Netflix Chef’s Table series. All the recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app : https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 there with chef Victor Arguinzoniz for five years, pushing the limits of what could be cooked over fire. We will also hear about Lennox Hastie’s move to Australia in 2011, where he started a new chapter when he opened Firedoor in 2015. Since, he has won several awards and has been featured in a Chef’s Table episode in Netflix. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 hear about how he promotes better farming practices for a more sustainable agricultural system and tastier food, by taking the farm to table movement to the next level. The recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 worked at Convivio Troiani and later joined Glass Hostaria in the heart of Trastevere. All of the recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 him to create Maido, a Japanese restaurant with a Peruvian heart. At Maido he works with his team creating new culinary trends where Japanese and Peruvian cuisines merge as Nikkei cuisine. All of the recommendations mentioned in this podcast and thousands more are available for free in the World of Mouth app: https://www.worldofmouth.app/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.