The People · Page 100
The artisans of taste.
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Jin Caldwell
Portland, Oregon, United States
Before Jin Caldwell became chocolate production lead at JinJu Patisserie in Portland, the work was already centered on chocolate confections. That focus gives the role its shape:…
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Jin Qiang
Beijing, China
Jin Qiang became executive chef of Made in China in Beijing in 2024, and that appointment neatly defines the public shape of his career: a chef stepping into a prominent kitchen,…
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Jintana Noochlaor
Los Angeles, California, United States
From Bangkok to the kitchen at Sapp Coffee Shop in Los Angeles, United States, Jintana Noochlaor’s arc is measured not by reinvention but by insistence: Thai cooking kept direct,…
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Jirka Zajíček
Svätý Jur, Slovakia
Jirka Zaj moves through the kitchen world with the quiet precision of someone who has spent years refining motion into instinct. Now head chef at ARTE in Svätý Jur, Slovakia, he…
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JJ Proville
Seattle, Washington, United States
## The Essentials Restaurant service became the working education for JJ Proville; he has said the shift from food media into kitchens was the point where the trade itself started…
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Joakim Almqvist
Copenhagen, Denmark
Executive Chef at Punkroyale in Copenhagen, Denmark, Joakim Almqvist comes through a formation traced through guest stints and pop-ups before the first Stockholm restaurant…
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Joan Abril
Altea, Spain
## Early Years Ageing sits inside the cooking, not beside it. In Joan Abril’s kitchen, dry-aged beef and dry-aged steak define the house identity before the cut reaches the fire.…
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Joan McNamara
Los Angeles, California, United States
Joan McNamara has run Joan’s on Third in Los Angeles, California, United States since founding the business in 1995, with the work set by a simple brief: home cooking, pushed a…
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Co-Owner and Managing Director, Drop Coffee
Joanna Alm Leighton
Stockholm, Sweden
Joanna Alm Leighton is co-owner and Managing Director of Drop Coffee, the independent Stockholm roastery and café. She leads the company with co-owner Stephen Leighton and is…
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Joanne Chang
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Joanne Chang built her career by moving pastry work through restaurant kitchens and into bakery production, with Harvard College, management consulting, and a string of Boston and…
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Joannès Rivière
Siem Reap, Cambodia
Cambodian cuisine is the material Joannès Rivi works with at Cuisine Wat Damnak in Siem Reap: a craft of place, memory, and modern Cambodian cooking rather than a borrowed French…
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João Dias
Tavira, Portugal
## The Path Schooling at Escola de Hotelaria e Turismo de Faro sits at the start of João Dias’s record, and it matters here as the first formal frame around his cooking. That…
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Joaquim Perez
Barcelona, Spain
Joaquim Perez is the chef of Quimet et Quimet in Barcelona, Spain, a place that seems less like a workplace than a family pulse kept beating in public. His life and his profession…
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Joaquín Ignacio Sánchez
Barcelona, Spain
Formed at Basque Culinary Center, Joaquín Ignacio Sánchez brings a disciplined line of training into a role that is both culinary and creative: Executive Chef and co-founder of…
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Joaquin Rodas
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
At Bacchanal Wine in New Orleans, United States, Founding Chef and Managing Partner Joaquin Rodas is formed by the house he helped make: a kitchen associated with rustic yet…
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Winemaker
Jochen Dreissigacker
Bechtheim, Germany
Jochen Dreissigacker is a member of the 3 Winner collective in Bechtheim. Since 2001, he has worked as winemaker and leader of the estate at Weingut Dreissigacker, where his…
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Jodi Hortze
Los Angeles, California, United States
Jodi Hortze’s documented career is built around one operating fact: Chef and Founder of The Griddle Cafe in Los Angeles. That title is the anchor point of the record, with the…
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James Beard Award winner
Jody Adams
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
## The Climb Jody Adams’s route through Boston dining is built on disciplined advancement: Brown University, then a series of kitchen posts that moved her steadily toward larger…
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Winemaker
Joe Coughlin
Napa, California, United States
Joe Coughlin’s profile is built around a single post: winemaker at Rombauer Vineyards. That kind of concentration is rare in a trade where public biographies often sprawl across a…
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Joe Farruggio
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
His work centers on Neapolitan pizza and on ownership of restaurants in Washington, DC, Arlington, Virginia, and Virginia, with a career shaped by repetition, discipline, and the…
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Joe Gould
Windermere, United Kingdom
Cumbria gives Joe Gould his working ground: fields, farms, trusted local suppliers, and the steady pull of a British agricultural larder. At Gilpin Hotel & Lake House in…
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Joe Grossman
London, United Kingdom
Joe Grossman is the founder and head chef of Patty & Bun in London, the role that defines his public work. His career also includes pub operation in 2023, placing him across both…
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Joe Holness
London, United Kingdom
## At a Glance Since 2025, Joe Holness has been Head Chef at Seventy Five at Liberty in London, bringing a kitchen method built on restraint and care rather than display. His own…
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Joe Laker
London, United Kingdom
His career has moved through a sequence of kitchens before reaching Counter 71, and the through-line is clear: Joe Laker has been building toward a stricter, more self-defined…
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Joe Ng
New York City, New York, United States
In New York City, Chef Joe Ng works the pliant language of dim sum at RedFarm, where sweet potato, shrimp, watercress, mushroom, Chinese barbecue, butter, olive oil, and seasonal…
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Joe Palma
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Before Joe Palma became chef at High Cotton Charleston Restaurant in Charleston, United States, his formation ran through the city itself: College of Charleston, then the line at…
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Joe Rong
New York City, New York, United States
Joe Rong's path runs from arriving in New York as a teenager to founding a Flushing stand in 2017 and owning Joe's Steam Rice Roll in New York City. It is a compact arc, built…
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Winemaker
Joe Shirley
Napa, California, United States
Joe Shirley has been head winemaker at Napa Cellars in Oakville, California, United States, since 2007, and even after all these years, the philosophy that shapes his work remains…
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Chef
Joeffrey Fraiche
Montreux, Switzerland
## The Climb At Le Pont de Brent in Montreux, Joeffrey Fraiche has held the Head Chef role since 2025, and the title is best read as a public mark of authorship. The kitchen…
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Joey Campanaro
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path Joey Campanaro trained at Penn State University. That training sits behind a career built on repetition, ownership, and a few dishes that stayed on the menu long…
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Joey Scalabrino
New York City, New York, United States
Joey Scalabrino is the founder of Apollo Bagels in New York City. His defining work is a classic smoked salmon bagel with cream cheese, red onion, capers, dill, lemon, and olive…
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Joey Ward
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Joey Ward works as Executive Chef and owner of Southern Belle and Georgia Boy in Atlanta, Georgia, where the food is built with theatrical instinct and a disciplined frame. The…
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Johan Åkerberg
Bracke, Sweden
Chef Johan Åkerberg is the name most closely tied to Holy Smoke BBQ in Bräcke, Sweden, and to the move that brought Texas-style barbecue into a European setting. The work sits on…
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Johan Ducroquet
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chef and co-founder of Bouillon Bistro Parisien in Hong Kong, Johan Ducroquet cooks where refined Parisian cuisine meets classic French comfort food. Before that role, he was…
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Johan Fritzell
Bracke, Sweden
Johan Fritzell founded Holy Smoke BBQ in Bräcke, Sweden, in 2014 and has led it since. He presents the restaurant as authentic American barbecue and compares its atmosphere to a…
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Johan Sandelin
Stockholm, Sweden
Johan Sandelin has been master pastry chef at Vete-Katten in Stockholm since 1997, a long, quietly formidable tenure shaped by French confectionery training and an unwavering…
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Winemaker
Johann Gisperg Jr
Teesdorf, Austria
## The Path At Burgundermacher Weingut Johann Gisperg in Teesdorf, Austria, the winemaking is anchored in the Thermenregion and in the value of local difference. Johann Gisperg Jr…
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Winemaker
Johanna Höfinger
Gobelsburg, Austria
Johanna Höfinger works as winemaker and co-leader of Familienweingut Johanna Höfinger in Gobelsburg, Austria, where the job sits between cellar decisions and estate continuity.…
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Johanna Maier
Filzmoos, Austria
Johanna Maier is an Austrian chef at Hotel Hubertus in Filzmoos, Austria. Born on August 23, 1951, she has led the kitchen there and serves as chef de cuisine. Her kitchen credo…
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Johanne Killeen
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Chef-owner Johanne Killeen has been shaping the identity of Al Forno Restaurant in Providence since co-founding it in 1980, helping turn an idea of Italian cooking into something…
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Johannes Richter
Durban, South Africa
Born in Germany, Johannes Richter’s work is rooted in a family business in Durban. In 2017, he joined Summerhill Guest Estate in South Africa, and that move set the terms of his…
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Winemaker
Johannes Zillinger
Velm Gotzendorf, Austria
Johannes Zillinger is the winemaker at Bioweingut Johannes Zillinger in Velm-Götzendorf, Austria, where he took over the winery in 2013 and set a clear, uncompromising tone for…
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John Bucci
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
## Coming Up The Roast Pork Sandwich is the standard bearer here: roast pork, sharp provolone, and fresh leaf spinach sautéed in olive oil, as John Bucci describes the classic…
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John Castellucci
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
His work sits between family restaurant kitchens and formal instruction at the Culinary Institute of America: a kitchen education shaped by inherited repetition and by standards…
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John Cleveland
Los Angeles, California, United States
John Cleveland is the Head Chef and owner of Post & Beam in Los Angeles, the 2024 role that now defines his work. At Post & Beam, California comfort food gives the kitchen its…
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John DaSilva
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
In Boston, John DaSilva’s cooking at Chickadee works as a study in contrast: New England’s granite-and-salt precision set against a wider, more aromatic field of spice. Since…
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Winemaker
John Fogarty
West Perth, Australia
## Career - **Chief Viticulturist** — Fogarty Wine Group, Western Australia (2002–present) - **Director & Head Viticulturist** — Fogarty Wine Group, Australia - **Co-creator of…
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Winemaker
John Forrest
Blenheim, New Zealand
## Where It Started Marlborough is the first point of reference, and that matters in a wine business: place is not backdrop, it is working context. Forrest Wines was founded by…
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John Gionleka
London, United Kingdom
## Coming Up Balkan cooking sits at the center of John Gionleka’s work, and he has said as much in plain terms: “In the context of the Balkans, it has always been the case.” At…
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John Gorham
Portland, Oregon, United States
## Coming Up "The No. 1 rule at Tasty is it's going to taste good." Training at the American Culinary Federation shows up in John Gorham’s work as a bias toward fundamentals:…
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John Harris
Lacombe, Louisiana, United States
## Coming Up At Pennsylvania Culinary Institute, John Harris picked up the technical base that later carried through a sequence of kitchens built around French discipline and…
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Winemaker
John Matta
Greve in Chianti, Italy
## The Path That early record places him in a European wine setting shaped by discipline, repetition, and respect for method. Even in a short span, that kind of grounding often…
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John Michael Jensen
Copenhagen, Denmark
## Coming Up Training at Adser Hansens Konditori ved Hellerup Station gave John Michael Jensen a base in repetition, care, and finish. That is where the work of precision became…
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John Poiarkoff
New York City, New York, United States
Roman-leaning hearth cooking works by repetition of fundamentals: dough, char, rendered fat, melted cheese, seasonal produce, and the timing required to pull each before the fire…
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John Ross
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Before John Ross became chef of Neptune Oyster in Boston, the work had already been teaching him the pace and repetition that define a kitchen. Raised in North Carolina, he first…
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John Shepherd
Seattle, Washington, United States
John Shepherd’s profile sits at the intersection of restaurant work, recovery, and civic responsibility. The public record around him is plainspoken rather than polished, and that…
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John Sorrano
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
## The Path Neapolitan-style pizza is a discipline of dough, fire, and timing, and John Sorrano’s work at Punch Neapolitan Pizza sits squarely inside that line. Today’s role reads…
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John Stage
Syracuse, New York, United States
Barbecue has defined John Stage’s work, but the trade shows up here as method before identity: control of heat, timing, smoke, and the use of fire to build flavor without losing…
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James Beard Award winner
John Torode
London, United Kingdom
John Torode moved from Melbourne kitchens into restaurants, books, and television, building a career that spans local cooking jobs, ownership, and long-running broadcast work.…
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John-Vincent Troiano
Thornhill, Canada
The work is exacting and ingredient-led: local and seasonal produce, Asian influences, and a stated pursuit of nature’s simplicities shaped into complexity and intricacy of…
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Johnny Clark
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Johnny Clark is the Chef/Proprietor of Parachute Hi-Fi and Anelya in Chicago, and a Ukrainian American chef whose work sits at the intersection of formal training, kitchen…
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Johnny Jiang
Shanghai, China
Johnny Jiang is the chef-owner of Seul & Seul in Shanghai. In that position, the work is split between making the food and setting the terms around it: the pace of service, the…
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Johnny Leach
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
At the restaurant inside Hotel Kansas City, Johnny Leach cooks with seasonality as a working rule, not a garnish: local producers set the pace, and the Missouri white oak-burning…
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Johnny Pham
Shanghai, China
Since 2024, Johnny Pham has been chef of VIVANT by Johnny Pham in Shanghai, China. ## Where They Are Now The through-line in Johnny Pham’s work is range built on exacting…
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Jon "Cake" Garcia
Barcelona, Spain
## Coming Up Pastry entered Jon "Cake" Garcia’s working life through a second discipline, not as a first calling. He trained at Terrassa, then worked as an aeronautical engineer…
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Jon Guhl
San Francisco, California, United States
Jon Guhl’s work at Little Star in San Francisco sits at the point where kitchen discipline meets guest-facing pace. Creativity, quick service, and hospitality are the operating…
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Jon Matsubara
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Before Jon Matsubara became chef/owner of FEAST in Mānoa, Honolulu, the work had already moved him through kitchens where repetition, timing, and control define the line. The…
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Jon Nodler
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up Training at University of Wisconsin set the base, but the craft was shaped in kitchens where precision and discipline were the operating standards. Jon Nodler moved…
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Jon Ordeñana
Plentzia, Spain
Jon Ordeñana’s work at Asador Hondartzape in Plentzia is built on disciplined simplicity: a grill practice that depends on clean timing, close reading of heat, and respect for…
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Jon Snyder
New York City, New York, United States
## The Climb Gelato brands reward operators who can hold product, identity, and scale together, and Jon Snyder’s work is defined by that balance. After studying at Columbia…
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Winemaker
Jonas Brand
Bockenheim, Germany
## Coming Up Cellar master at Brand Bros - Weingut Brand is the role that anchors Jonas Brand in the estate’s day-to-day rhythm. It is hands-on work: reading the cellar, keeping…
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Jonas Gehl
Copenhagen, Denmark
His work moves from classroom discipline to service floor tempo, then into the technical demands of specialty coffee and the slower responsibility of building a business in…
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Master of Wine
Jonas Tofterup
Fuengirola, Spain
Jonas Tofterup is a Danish winemaker whose work has moved between formal study, export, production, and teaching. Born in Esbjerg, Denmark, in 1985, he built his base with an MSc…
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Winemaker
Jonatan García Lima
La Orotava, Spain
## Today At Bodegas Suertes del Marqués in La Orotava, Tenerife, Jonatan García Lima works with the kind of attention that keeps a wine anchored to site: detail first, gesture…
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Jonatán Gómez Luna
Cancún, Mexico
## The Climb Technique was the first discipline at Centro Culinario Ambrosía, where Jonatán Gómez Luna built the base of his cooking on precision, control, and repetition. The…
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Jonathan Aviles
Los Angeles, California, United States
Jonathan Aviles’s work reads as a study in discipline, pace, and control. As chef of Salazar in Los Angeles, the job places him in a service environment where timing, consistency,…
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Jonathan Brooks
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
## The Path At Milktooth in Fletcher Place, Indianapolis (2014–2026), Jonathan Brooks used ownership to build more than a menu: he built a restaurant with a clear point of view,…
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Jonathan Day
Lima, Peru
## Coming Up The point of the room is not garnish or excess but the loaf itself, treated as the thing around which the rest of the table is built. Day’s line on the work is…
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Winemaker
Jonathan Ducourt
Ladaux, France
## The Climb At the point where vineyard work meets distribution, Jonathan Ducourt’s brief sits on both sides of the trade: sales and marketing for Celliers de Bordeaux Benauge…
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Jonathan Fox
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
## The Path Jonathan Fox runs Fox Bros Bar-B-Q in Atlanta, Georgia, United States as chef and owner, with a style built on direct heat, clear seasoning, and a firm read on…
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Jonathan Goldsmith
Chicago, Illinois, United States
The pizza is built around contrast: a golden honey-colored crust, fior di latte, San Marzano tomato sauce, a soft center, crisp edges, and smoky yeast aromas. “It’s crazy, right?…
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Jonathan Kinsella
Singapore, Singapore
Jonathan Kinsella’s work is built from formal training and kitchen repetition. AB Properties and Cincinnati State Technical and Community College sit at the base of a career that…
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Jonathan Larsson
Oslo, Norway
Jonathan Larsson is Executive Chef at Haralds Vaffel in Oslo, where Norwegian waffles set the terms of the kitchen. The work is built on contrast: savory and sweet, rich and…
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Winemaker
Jonathan Pabiot
Pouilly Sur Loire, France
## The Climb Winemaking at Domaine Jonathan Didier Pabiot sits on a foundation of local training and place-based work. Jonathan Pabiot trained at Local college in Cosne-sur-Loire,…
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Jonathan Sawyer
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Jonathan Sawyer was chef at Greenhouse Tavern in Cleveland, Ohio, from 2009 to 2020, a run that helped define him as one of the city’s most attentive and wide-ranging kitchen…
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Jonathan Whitener
Los Angeles, California, United States
## Coming Up Technique from the Culinary Institute of America gave Jonathan Whitener the basic discipline to build on, but the work that followed was about turning training into a…
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Jonghun Won
Manhattan, New York, United States
Jonghun Won has built a career across pastry, bread, and ownership without treating those disciplines as separate lanes. Since 2022, he has been Pastry Chef, bread baker, and…
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Jonghwi Lim
New York City, New York, United States
Jonghwi Lim works at the meeting point of Korean cooking and Manhattan restaurant pace. At Osamil in New York City, his role as chef and Co-Executive Chef sits alongside work that…
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Jooles O'sullivan
London, United Kingdom
## The Path Early work at Mark Hix / Mission E2 in London, United Kingdom gave Jooles O'sullivan a practical grounding in service, pace, and consistency. In a kitchen shaped by…
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Winemaker
Joost de Willebois
Verdigny, France
## Coming Up Loire Sauvignon Blanc rewards precise reading, and Joost de Willebois built that habit from an earlier career in finance, where structure and discipline already…
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Co-CEO & World Barista Champion, MOMOS Coffee
Jooyeon Jeon
Busan, South Korea
Co-CEO of MOMOS COFFEE in Busan, South Korea, South Korean barista Jooyeon Jeon works from the bar outward: service, green coffee, roasting direction, quality control, and…
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Jordan Anthony-Brown
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
## The Climb Since 2024, chef and owner Jordan Anthony-Brown has run The Aperture as a single authorship project, with the room, menu, and concept moving under one hand. The…
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Jordan Rubin
Portland, Maine, United States
Jordan Rubin is the chef/owner of Mr. Tuna in Portland, Maine, the chef/owner of Bar Futo in Portland, Maine, and a partner at Crispy Gai in Portland, Maine. Across those…
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Jordi Coromina
Tavertet, Spain
## The Climb An early executive-chef post at L'Horta Restaurant Tavertet, Barcelona, Spain, placed the work in a kitchen where product, setting, and daily discipline had to meet…
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Jordi Llobet
Lladurs, Spain
Jordi Llobet’s profile is best read through the kitchens he has led, not through any broader self-description. As chef at Restaurant de La Vella Farga in Lladurs, he sits in the…
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Jordi Peris
Barcelona, Spain
Jordi Peris’s cooking at Bar del Pla in Barcelona, Spain is built for the Spanish bar format: compact, direct, and built to hold up in service. Within that frame, the work reads…
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Jordi Roca
Girona, Spain
The sweet course at El Celler de Can Roca in Girona, Spain, is built as a controlled shift in the meal: texture, scent, temperature, and humor move forward without dropping the…
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Jörg Müller
Westerland, Germany
Jörg Müller’s work at Hotel & Restaurant Jörg Müller in Westerland, on Sylt in Germany, is built around a single house and a fixed culinary line. That kind of continuity matters…
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Jorge Baeza
Madrid, Spain
## The Path Hospitality ownership runs through Jorge Baeza’s work in a direct line: founder at Grupo Larrumba, then chef and owner of La Savina in Madrid. The throughline is less…
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Winemaker
Jorge Caus Pertegaz
Font De La Figuera, Spain
## Coming Up At Universitat Politècnica de València, the technical base was set for a career built on measurement, process, and repetition. Jorge Caus Pertegaz moved first into…
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