Chef Monisha Bharadwaj is a culinary genius known for simple, authentic Indian cuisine and is also the founder of cookery school Cooking With Monisha.
“I always loved food, a lot,” beams multi-award-winning, London-based Kiwi chef and restauranteur, Chantelle Nicholson. “I think I got into cooking pretty young for a few reasons. I had an aunt in Central Otago that was an amazing cook and baker, and then had another aunt who spent some time travelling and living in America, so had very different influences from her."
Sunshine Coast-based Kiwi chef Andy Hearnden has worked the world over – and cooked at some of its finest restaurants such as Sydney’s famed French bistro, Felix, and Tom’s Kitchen in London.
Verve catches up with some cool Kiwi chefs to talk about the festive season with Pierre-Allain Fenoux, Adel Jener and June Street.
She's progressed from being a 15-year-old dishwasher in her native Northern Ireland to working under Gordon Ramsay to the opening of her triple Michelin-star restaurant, Core. Clare Smyth opens up about this most tasteful evolution of dining excellence and explains why simplicity is making a comeback.