The People · Page 101
The artisans of taste.
Chef
Jorge de Andrés
València, Spain
## Coming Up The defining line in Jorge de Andrés’s record is the length of the Vertical post: chef and director at Vertical in Valencia from 2006 to 2023. Seventeen years in one…
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Jorge Fernandez
London, United Kingdom
## Today At Fortitude Bakehouse in Bloomsbury, Jorge Fernandez’s work reads as bakery leadership built on repetition, control, and a clear point of view. The shop he founded in…
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Chef
Jorge Guadron
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
## The Climb Kitchen leadership in Honolulu’s New American register requires precision without losing local context. Early in Jorge Guadron’s career, service as Executive Chef at…
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Winemaker
Jorge Manuel Pintão
Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal
Head of Poças’ Winemaking and Quality team at Poças in Peso da Régua, Portugal, is the title that defines Jorge Manuel Pintão’s work. The achievement rests on a long winemaking…
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Winemaker
Jorge Monzón Pascual
La Aguilera, Spain
The work is built on manual labor, patience, and a cellar discipline that favors precision over display. Jorge Monzón Pascual’s practice reads as accumulation: each role adding…
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Jorge Peralta
Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala
## The Path At 6.8 Palopó in Santa Catarina Palopó, Guatemala, Jorge Peralta works as executive chef and chef/owner, building a kitchen identity from what the region already…
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Co-Owner and Winemaker, Wine & Soul; Co-Founder, M.O.B.
Jorge Serôdio Borges
Pinhão, Portugal
Jorge Serôdio Borges is the co-owner, founder, and winemaker of Wine & Soul in Portugal's Douro Valley and a co-founder of the Dão project M.O.B. A fifth-generation member of a…
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Winemaker
José Alberto Calvo Casajús
Burgos, Spain
José Alberto Calvo Casajús works at Bodegas Casajús in Quintana del Pidio, Burgos, Spain, and the wines are read through Ribera del Duero. The line starts in 1993, when Bodegas…
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Winemaker
José Antonio Iniesta
Fuentealbil, Spain
José Antonio Iniesta founded Bodega Andrés Iniesta in 1990 in Fuentealbilla. In trade terms, the significance lies in continuity. The bodega carries a family name, and José…
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Winemaker
José Antonio Merayo
Serrada, Spain
José Antonio Merayo is the winemaker and technical director of Bodegas Val de Vid in Serrada, Spain, a role that places him inside the estate’s daily pace and technical shape. In…
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José Antonio Olave Candia
Madrid, Spain
José Antonio Olave Candia’s profile is built on kitchen repetition, brigade discipline, and classroom instruction. The line from ThePowerMBA through Basque Culinary Center and…
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Winemaker
José Antonio Zarzana
Jerez de la Frontera, Spain
He directs a house built around Pedro Ximénez wines and brandies, limited annual solera selections, and a severe standard for what earns the label. ## Coming Up Law provided the…
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Winemaker
José Bueno
Saint-Estèphe, France
José Bueno works the wines of Château Clauzet in Saint-Estèphe, France, where cellar timing and estate continuity define the job. In that setting, the winemaker’s work is less…
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Winemaker
José Carlos Álvarez
Peñafiel, Spain
José Carlos Álvarez works from a simple premise: wine starts in the vineyard and is resolved in the cellar. The work is region, vineyard, cellar in that order, with the cellar…
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Chef
José Carlos Fuentes
Madrid, Spain
José Carlos Fuentes has been executive chef of Club Allard in Madrid since 2018, and that post sits at the center of a career built across El Salvador, Catalonia, Murcia, Toledo,…
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Chef
Jose Contreras
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Formation, for Jose Contreras, begins with a room: his grandmother’s kitchen, the family place he remembers as warm, generous, and full of people made happy by food. From…
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James Beard Award winner
Jose Enrique
Carolina, Puerto Rico
Food & Wine named Jose Enrique Best New Chef in 2013, a recognition that reads less like a break with the past than a read on work already grounded in Puerto Rican cuisine. Born…
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Winemaker
José Félix Callejo
Sotillo De La Ribera, Spain
## The Path At Bodegas Félix Callejo in Sotillo de la Ribera, the winemaking turns on site reading and parcel work, with José Félix Callejo and Noelia revamping the style by…
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Winemaker
José Jiménez-Landi
Mentrida, Spain
José Jiménez-Landi has made wine at Bodegas Jiménez-Landi in Méntrida, Spain, since 2004. That kind of long, continuous tenure matters in wine: it means the cellar work, the…
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Chef
Jose Lopez
Tempate Distric, Costa Rica
San Jose, Costa Rica. In the heat and rhythm of the capital, Jose Lopez has shaped a kitchen language built around fire, memory, and place. At Pampa, that approach is stated…
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Winemaker
José Luis Asenjo
La Roda, Spain
José Luis Asenjo's work at Bodega Dehesa de Luna in La Roda, Spain is built on site-specific agriculture rather than abstraction. His own frame is topographic and practical: “We…
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Chef
José Luis Chavez
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up Since 2015, Mission Ceviche has been shaped by José Luis Chavez in the dual roles of co-founder and Executive Chef, as well as chef-owner. Those titles mark a longer…
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Winemaker
Jose Luis Chueca
Borja, Spain
Jose Luis Chueca is principal winemaker at Bodegas Alto Moncayo in Borja, Spain. The role puts him inside one of the region’s most closely watched estates, where the work turns on…
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José Luis Díaz
Barcelona, Spain
Sense Pressa in Barcelona is built on a specific discipline: market ingredients handled with care, Spanish regional recipes kept in frame, and time used as a tool rather than a…
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Winemaker
José Luis Oliveira da Silva
Aldeia Galega Da Merceana, Portugal
José Luis Oliveira da Silva’s work is tied to Casa Santos Lima in Alenquer, Portugal, where the estate’s continuity is the point. The house north of Lisbon is built on family…
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Winemaker
José Manuel Echeverría
Los Arcos, Spain
José Manuel Echeverría is co-founder and director of Bodegas y Viñedos Alzania in Los Arcos, Spain, a role he has held from 2000 to the present. The work is defined by a…
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José Manuel Santos
Madrid, Spain
He was an empirical cook. ## Coming Up Training at UNITEC gave José Manuel Santos the base, but the work at Hotel Bogotá Plaza did the rest. As aprendiz there, the craft was…
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Winemaker
José María Vicente
Jumilla, Spain
José María Vicente is the owner and operator of Casa Castillo in Jumilla, Spain, and that role keeps the estate’s viticulture, cellar work, and business decisions in the same…
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Beverage Service Professional
Jose Medina Camacho
Birmingham, Alabama, United States
Jose Medina Camacho is co-founder and Beverage Director of Adiõs in Birmingham, Alabama, United States, and the work reads from a bar-side logic of balance: measured, expressive,…
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José Pinheiro
Vila do Bispo, Portugal
José Pinheiro’s profile is spare in the way some kitchens are spare: nothing superfluous, only the essential lines of a professional life. At the center of it is A Eira do Mel,…
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Winemaker
José Ramon Lisarrague
Morata De Tajuna, Spain
## Coming Up Viticulture in José Ramon Lisarrague’s work sits between the classroom and the cellar. As professor of viticulture of Madrid University, he brings academic method to…
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Winemaker
José Sanfins
Margaux Cantenac, France
José Sanfins has served as General Manager and Winemaker at Château Cantenac Brown in Margaux, France, from 1989 to the present. That kind of tenure matters in estate wine: it…
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Winemaker
Jose Spisso
La Consulta, Argentina
Jose Spisso serves as winemaker at Bodegas Y Viñedos O Fournier in La Consulta-San Carlos, Argentina. His work sits inside Argentine wine: group winemaking leadership, production…
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Winemaker
Josef “Sepp” Reiterer
Molten, Italy
## The Path Since 1979, the craft at Arunda has been carried by Josef “Sepp” Reiterer as founder, proprietor, and winemaker. That kind of continuity matters in sparkling wine: the…
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Winemaker
Josef Bayer
Donnerskirchen, Austria
The formation of Josef Bayer is best read through a family place: Bayer – Erbhof in Donnerskirchen, Austria, where continuity is not an abstraction but daily work. Since 2023, he…
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Winemaker
Josef Hummel
Gro Riedenthal, Austria
His craft is rooted in Wagram wine, shaped by a Pannonian climate and loess soils, and expressed through fruit, spice, freshness, structure, and regional character. In Josef…
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Winemaker
Josef Maier
Oberfucha Furth, Austria
Josef Maier works at Bioweingut Geyerhof in Oberfucha, Austria, where the job sits between vineyard, cellar, and method. The style is built on fruit clarity, close respect for raw…
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Winemaker
Josep Maria Albet i Noya
Subirats, Spain
His work sits at the point where winegrowing, ownership and environmental conviction meet. For Josep Maria Albet i Noya, the vineyard is not a backdrop or a balance sheet line; it…
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Winemaker
Josep Maria Pujol-Busquets i Camps
Alella, Spain
## The Climb Training at Cros gave Josep Maria Pujol-Busquets i Camps the groundwork for a career built on precision and patience. That early formation matters at Alta Alella,…
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Winemaker, Domaine Joseph Colin
Joseph Colin
Saint-Aubin, France
The work is measured in low yields, early picking, indigenous fermentations and white wines built for purity, minerality, freshness and minimal oak influence. In Joseph Colin's…
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Chef
Joseph Harrison
Savannah, Georgia, United States
## Coming Up The line through Joseph Harrison’s early kitchens reads less like a shortcut than a ground-level education in service. Before he became Executive Chef of Common…
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Chef
Joseph Hickey
Portland, Oregon, United States
Joseph Hickey came to Portland, Oregon, from Dallas, Texas, in 2009 with a background built outside the usual line-cook path. Construction, catering, and rock and roll drumming…
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Chef
Joseph Papas
Portland, Oregon, United States
At OK Omens in Portland, Pacific Northwest cooking is treated as a working inventory rather than a theme: cold-water seafood, herbs and greens, mushrooms, ramps, and acidity are…
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Chef
Joseph Raney
Custer, South Dakota, United States
Joseph Raney runs Skogen Kitchen in Custer, United States with a kitchen standard built on plain terms: cook what the team actually wants to cook, then serve guests with the same…
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Winemaker
Joseph Wagner
Rutherford, California, United States
His career is compact and entrepreneurial, built on family instruction, a founder’s role, and continued work in the cellar. Joseph Wagner’s path reads as a practical…
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Chef
Joseph Wrede
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
## The Training Formal training at the Institute of Culinary Education in 1995 marks the starting line in Joseph Wrede’s record. That date matters less as a biographical flourish…
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Owner
Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse
Saint-Émilion, France
Joséphine Duffau-Lagarrosse has been co-owner and co-director (with Prisca Courtin-Clarins) of Château Beauséjour since April 2021, and the estate is run from a plain principle of…
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Chef
Josey Baker
San Francisco, California, United States
Josey Baker’s work is defined by whole grain sourdough made from freshly milled flour, a practice rooted in the move to San Francisco in 2005 and in the earlier ground of being…
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Chef
Josh Quick
Florence, Alabama, United States
“I should be the favorite chef because everyone I meet is my guest. I cook from the heart and give my guests the best experience I can!” That line sets out the standard behind…
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Chef
Josh Raine
Sydney, Australia
## The Climb Josh Raine’s path runs through kitchens where precision is the baseline, not the finish line. A private-chef post in Les Gets, in the French Alps, set the work inside…
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Winemaker
Josh Scott
Blenheim, New Zealand
Josh Scott’s work sits where production, cellar discipline, and brewing logic meet: wine handling, fermentation, and the practical demands of running a family business. Based in…
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Chef
Josh Smookler
New York City, New York, United States
Korean adoption into a New York Jewish family, a Long Island upbringing, and later work between Queens and Sonoma form the biographical ground around Josh Smookler, but the trade…
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Chef
Joshua McFadden
Portland, Oregon, United States
Before any ownership title attached, Joshua McFadden’s work had already been built through the practical disciplines that hold a kitchen together: farming, design, programming,…
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Chef
Joshua Skenes
Los Angeles, California, United States
Before Joshua Skenes took over the kitchen at Leopardo in Los Angeles, his work was shaped in a fire-centered room in San Francisco, where heat, discipline, and control set the…
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Chef
Joshua Zeman
Naples, Florida, United States
Executive Chef Joshua Zeman has held Sea Salt Restaurant in Naples, Florida, since 2015, bringing continuity to a kitchen role that depends on pace, consistency, and a read on…
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Joy Stehney
Kansas City, Kansas, United States
## The Path Since 1997, ownership, operations, and kitchen leadership have sat with Joy Stehney at Joe's Kansas City Bar-B-Que. That combination places her inside the restaurant’s…
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Chef
Jozef Rogulski
London, United Kingdom
In a lineage-minded kitchen, the work is measured in repetition, judgment, pastry, stock, heat, and the discipline of making familiar forms land with precision. Jozef Rogulski’s…
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JP Lopez
Los Angeles, California, United States
JP Lopez co-founded Wanderlust Creamery in Los Angeles, a dessert business shaped with the logic of a craft studio rather than a conventional scoop shop. Founded in Tarzana,…
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Chef
JT Vuong
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path Boston University is the starting point in JT Vuong’s record, but the more telling education happens in line work: chef at the Yuji Ramen pop-up (2017–2019), then head…
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Winemaker
Juan Antonio Ponce
Villanueva De La Jara, Spain
## The Essentials Bobal is the core of the work at Bodegas Ponce in Villanueva De La Jara, where Juan Antonio Ponce founded the winery in 2005 and built a practice around that…
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Winemaker
Juan Bautista García
Murillo De Rio Leza, Spain
Juan Bautista García is the winemaker and manager of Bodega Paco García in Murillo de Río Leza, Spain. The work is split between cellar oversight and estate management, with the…
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Winemaker
Juan Bautista Sáenz
Haro, Spain
Juan Bautista Sáenz came to wine by way of Chemistry and an early course in Oenology, where science became cellar practice. That pairing set the terms of the work: close…
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Winemaker
Juan Carlos López de Lacalle
Laguardia, Spain
## Coming Up Single-vineyard wines sit at the center of Juan Carlos López de Lacalle’s work, and the principle behind them is stated plainly: “The value of great wines is closely…
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Chef
Juan Carlos Martínez Beltrán
Orio, Spain
We owe ourselves to the customer, and their well-being is very important. They must be comfortable. That premise sits at the center of Juan Carlos Martínez Beltrán’s work at…
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Chef
Juan Carlos Padrón
Adeje, Spain
## Coming Up Since 2021, Juan Carlos Padrón has worked as chef at El Rincón de Juan Carlos in Royal Hideaway Corales Resort, Costa Adeje, Tenerife. In a room closely watched on…
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Winemaker
Juan Carlos Vizcarra
Mambrilla De Castrejon, Spain
Juan Carlos Vizcarra is the owner and winemaker at Bodegas Vizcarra in Mambrilla de Castrejón, Spain, a role built on family land, formal study, and the decision to turn grapes…
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Winemaker
Juan Díez Bulnes
Madrid, Spain
Juan Díez Bulnes, owner of Bodegas Bernabeleva in San Martín de Valdeiglesias, Spain, belongs first to a family line: in 2006, he and Santiago Matallana Bulnes,…
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Viticulturist
Juan Esteban
Roa, Spain
Juan Esteban’s work at Bodegas y Viñedos Valderiz in Roa ties vineyard discipline to national commercialization. The craft here is not only cultivation, but continuity: decisions…
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Chef
Juan Ferreiro
Los Angeles, California, United States
Juan Ferreiro is chef of Great White in Los Angeles, a role that carries visible weight in a city where restaurant identities are often built as much by atmosphere as by the…
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Juan Geronimo
Amagansett, New York, United States
His cooking is anchored in Mexican food from Acapulco, with the family kitchen and market runs as its working reference points. Juan Geronimo’s mother and grandmother were always…
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Winemaker
Juan Glaria
Mendigorria, Spain
Since 2004, Juan Glaria has worked the cellar at Bodegas La Casa de Lúculo in Mendigorría, Spain, where the wines are built around restraint, precision and a direct reading of…
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Chef
Juan Ignacio Barcos
Buenos Aires, Argentina
His path combines formal culinary training with work in cattle. ## Coming Up Professional cooking starts with discipline, and at IAG, Juan Ignacio Barcos built the base that would…
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Winemaker
Juan Jesús Valdelana
Elciego, Spain
The craft here is not posed as self-expression for its own sake, but as a disciplined return to source. ## Coming Up Today, Juan Jesús Valdelana is the owner and winemaker of…
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Winemaker
Juan José Muñoz
Requena, Spain
## The Climb Technical Agricultural Engineering is the base of Juan José Muñoz’s work: a discipline that reads soil, vine and process as one continuous system. That training shows…
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Winemaker
Juan Luis Cañas
Samaniego, Spain
Juan Luis Cañas’s enthusiastic, kind character is present in every one of our wines. His winemaking philosophy is direct: "What really distinguishes us is our faith in the…
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Chef
Juan Pedro Secaduras
Alcalá la Real, Spain
Juan Pedro Secaduras works in the register of Andalusian specialties, with a line-up that stays close to the region’s core forms: cold soups, red tuna, slow-cooked meat, and…
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Winemaker
Judit Bodó
Bodrogkeresztúr, Hungary
Judit Bod is the owner and winemaker at Bott Pince in Bodrogkeresztúr. Her work is expressed in direct human terms: "When we succeed it brings joy to others that is generously…
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Judy Chan
New York City, New York, United States
Judy Chan cooks Cantonese everyday classics at Big Wong in New York City with the quiet assurance that comes from long practice. At 67 Mott Street in Manhattan’s Chinatown, the…
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Winemaker
Judy Kelly
Woodside, Australia
Judy Kelly has owned ArtWine in Woodside, South Australia, since 2009. The work sits where buying judgment, presentation, and wine selection meet: a retail model shaped by…
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Judy Sakuma
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Judy Sakuma has built a long practice around poke at Ono Seafood in Honolulu, the restaurant she co-founded in 1995. As chef, Sakuma has kept the work centered on repetition,…
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Chef
Julia Sullivan
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Julia Sullivan has made her mark in Nashville as Chef and Co-Owner of Henrietta Red, the role that most clearly defines her work in restaurants. Since opening Henrietta Red in…
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Julia Zardo Paterlini
Hook, United Kingdom
Head Chef at Heckfield Estates, Julia Zardo Paterlini sits in the part of the kitchen where leadership is measured by consistency, pace, and the ability to hold a room together.…
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Chef
Julian Baker
Miami, Florida, United States
## The Path Castle Culinary School gave Julian Baker a technical base, and the work that followed has stayed close to that discipline: clean execution, controlled detail, and a…
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Winemaker
Julian Faust
Eltville am Rhein, Germany
Julian Faust is the chef behind Fauststoff in Eltville am Rhein, Germany, and has held that role since 2019. His specialty is Riesling, the grape that defines the work. One venue,…
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Chef
Julian Medina
San Francisco, California, United States
At Amarena, Refined Mexican cuisine starts with translation: French reductions, sauces, and aioli reworked with Mexican ingredients. That method is the core of Julian Medina’s…
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Chef
Julian O'Neill
London, United Kingdom
Head Chef at The Fat Duck Group in Slough is Julian O’Neill’s leading title. The work behind it runs through a sharply practical career: Chef Manager at The Perfectionists’ Café…
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Chef
Julián Pulido
Madrid, Spain
Julián Pulido’s work at El Cisne Azul is built on a narrow, disciplined register: kitchen craft on one side, bar ownership on the other, and a mushroom specialist’s eye running…
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Winemaker
Julián Xu
Aranda de Duero, Spain
Julián Xu stands at the helm of Bodegas y Viñedos Alilian in Aranda de Duero, Spain, where the pace of the work is measured not only in seasons, but in the careful accumulation of…
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Chef
Juliana Latiff
Manhattan, New York, United States
## The Essentials - Leadership is part of the craft; as she put it, “I want to make sure I'm being a proper leader for them.” ## Signature Juliana's signature dishes include…
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Winemaker
Julie Guiard
Verdigny En Sancerre, France
## The Path Training at Université du Vin in Suze-la-Rousse gives Julie Guiard a base in wine that reads as methodical rather than theatrical. It is a formation suited to work…
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Julie Guinaudeau
Mouillac, France
Julie Guinaudeau is a co-director of the family-owned Société Agricole de Lafleur. Alongside Baptiste, Sylvie and Jacques Guinaudeau, she helps lead the estate and its six wines,…
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Winemaker
Julien Bonneau
Saint Ciers Sur Gironde, France
## The Essentials At Château Haut-Grelot in Saint Ciers sur Gironde, France, the work is framed by fourth-generation continuity: Julien Bonneau is taking over the estate from his…
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Chef
Julien Gatillon
Megève, France
Since 2012, Julien Gatillon has been head chef at Le 1920 in Megève, France. His standard is clear: "The most important things are precision and keeping a strict regime." ## The…
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Winemaker
Julien Guillot
Cruzille, France
Since 2001, Julien Guillot has been winemaker at Domaine des Vignes du Maynes in Cruzille, Burgundy, France. That long tenure is the key fact: the role has become the most…
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Winemaker
Julien Ilbert
Saint Vincent Rive D Olt, France
Julien Ilbert is the winemaker of Château Combel la Serre. He is also co-proprietor, and the work sits inside a family line he describes plainly: "This is a family business that…
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Chef
Julien Lahire
Bouillin, Belgium
Julien Lahire speaks about the Ardennes the way some chefs speak about memory: through what belongs there, what tastes of place, what feels inevitable once it arrives on the…
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Chef
Julien Lefebvre
Pauillac, France
Since 2017, Julien Lefebvre has been executive chef at Château Cordeillan-Bages in Pauillac, France. The work there is built on discipline: ingredients are handled with enough…
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Executive Chef, Les Sources de Vougeot
Julien Martin
Gilly Les Citeaux, France
Burgundy-born Julien Martin is Executive Chef of Les Sources de Vougeot and Head Chef of its gastronomic restaurant, Le Clos de la Tour. He trained with two-Michelin-starred chef…
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Julien Mercer
Singapore, Singapore
Executive chef at Claudine in Singapore, Julien Mercer brings a distinctly French sensibility to his cooking, but his work feels far from rigid or formal. At Claudine, his kitchen…
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Winemaker
Julien Meyre
Listrac-Médoc, France
## The Essentials Merlot carried the largest share in Julien Meyre’s blend, setting the round, supple center; Cabernet Sauvignon followed, adding structure and definition; Petit…
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