The People · Page 82
The artisans of taste.
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Ana Martin
Granada, Spain
## The Path Training came first, and it came through the Basque Government scholarship program in Madrid, where Ana Martin entered a disciplined setting that shaped the work that…
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Casey Lane
Los Angeles, California, United States
I was always the little annoying kid that asked ‘why’ constantly." ## The Path A kitchen voice usually sharpens through repetition, and Casey Lane’s record shows that kind of…
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Chad Robertson
Los Angeles, California, United States
Chad Robertson’s baking practice is anchored in naturally leavened bread, professional process control, and the production discipline required to build a bakery around daily…
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Elisabeth Prueitt
San Francisco, California, United States
Pastry work at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco has given Elisabeth Prueitt a platform for a career built on discipline rather than theater. The line from The Culinary Institute of…
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Jean-Paul Lair
Palm Springs, California, United States
Jean-Paul Lair is a chef centered on French-Mediterranean cuisine. His work stays inside that register, with the style itself doing the defining. ## The Climb Training at Ecole…
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Joel Pollock
Miami, Florida, United States
Joel Pollock is a co-founder of Panther Coffee, the specialty-coffee company he started with Leticia Ramos Pollock in Miami in 2010. The company began with a roastery café in…
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Leticia Ramos Pollock
Miami, Florida, United States
Leticia Ramos Pollock is a co-founder of Panther Coffee, the specialty-coffee company she started with Joel Pollock in Miami in 2010. The company began with a roastery café in…
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Masahito Namazue
Tokyo, Japan
I’ve started working in Chinese restaurants since I was in high school, and from there I went straight into Chinese cuisine. ## The Path Chinese cooking here is built through…
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Pedro Almeida
Macau, Macau
## Formation Restaurant work here starts with service and pastry before it reaches the pass. In Chaves, Portugal, Pedro Almeida worked first as a server and then as a dessert…
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Steve Williams
London, United Kingdom
## Career Britain’s fields and Franco-British technique sit close together in Steve Williams’s cooking: seasonal small plates at 40 Maltby Street in London, built to let product…
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Aaron Adams
Portland, Oregon, United States
The work of Aaron Adams keeps seasonal and local produce in close view, with zero waste treated as a working discipline rather than a point of branding. The result is food that…
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Aaron Barnett
Portland, Oregon, United States
Chef/owner work at St. Jack in Portland, Oregon, sits inside a French lineage interpreted through West Coast restaurant practice. Aaron Barnett is a Canadian chef whose work has…
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Aaron Brooks
Miami, Florida, United States
## The Path The pace of service and the pressure of the pass shape the work at EDGE Steak & Bar, where Aaron Brooks is Executive Chef. The room is built around appetite, but the…
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Aaron Cuschieri
Chicago, Illinois, United States
I remember being a young kid, and I always wanted to cook and bake with my mom in the kitchen." That early pull toward the stove settled into a craft built on timing, composure,…
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Aaron Rayor
Dundee, Oregon, United States
In 2024, Aaron Rayor was executive chef at Stokes Adobe, a role that matched a kitchen practice built around California produce and seasonal logic. As a California native, he…
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Abdelilah Ighiri
Marrakech, Morocco
Chef Abdelilah Ighiri leads the kitchen at La Villa des Orangers in Marrakech, where the work is organized around precision, restraint, and ingredient-led clarity. In a room that…
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Abida
Fès, Morocco
## Coming Up At Riad Fès, Abida works in a kitchen where Moroccan traditional cuisine is maintained through steady repetition, not novelty. The craft here is in keeping familiar…
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Accursio Craparo
Modica, Italy
Accursio Craparo is Executive Chef at Radici – L’Osteria di Accursio in Modica, Italy, where Sicilian traditional cuisine is treated as season, memory and craft rather than…
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Ace Watanasuparp
New York City, New York, United States
One of the most recognizable items tied to the business is Golden Toast: a large, crispy, honey-buttered toast topped with strawberries and condensed milk ice cream. The…
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Adachi Seiji
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Central, Hong Kong, sets the current working conditions for Edomae omakase: counter service, seasoned rice, vinegar, fish, and a sequence that depends on timing as much as…
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Adam Cole
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path Adam Cole holds that post today. ## The Work Today At Maple Block Meat Co, whole animals are butchered in-house, everything is smoked on the premises, and sauces and…
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Adam Horton
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path Adam Horton’s kitchen formation began at Saddle Peak Lodge in Los Angeles in 2000, where he started as chef and moved through sous chef to Head Chef. That climb gave…
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Adam Kulikowski
London, United Kingdom
Adam Kulikowski is the Executive Chef at Ember Yard in London, United Kingdom, where the kitchen is organised around wood fire and a concise Spanish-Italian tapas format. The role…
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Ádám Mede
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
The work associated with Ádám Mede is fine dining written in a precise Hungarian vocabulary, where each plate is named with care and built with tight composition: Sturgeon, wood…
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Adam Pegg
Vancouver, Canada
Our roots in cooking are the bigger, heavier flavours—not the pop-in-the-mouth kind of flavours, but the fattier meats, wild game, butter, and heavy cheeses. That line sits at the…
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Adam Tortosa
San Francisco, California, United States
"I personally love things that are hidden in plain sight." In Adam Tortosa's work at Robin in San Francisco, that idea reads as method, not mood. The cooking is built to reveal…
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Adam Warren
San Francisco, California, United States
## Coming Up At Navarre in Portland, Oregon, Adam Warren ran the kitchen in a pace that rewarded calm hands and a steady eye. That early post sharpened the composure and precision…
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Adarsh Suryavanshi
Copenhagen, Denmark
Adarsh Suryavanshi is Co-Founder at Democratic Coffee, a role he has held since 2020. The useful reading of the role is not a founder myth, but a set of working capacities…
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Addison Chase
Brunswick, Maine, United States
The work is part of a longer Maine pattern: Addison Chase and Penny Chase moved to the state in 1969, taught school, bought land in Freedom, built a house, and started farming.…
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Co-Manager, Domaine Matrot
Adèle Matrot
Meursault, France
Adèle Matrot is a winemaker and co-manager of the sixth-generation family estate Domaine Matrot in Meursault, Burgundy, France. Alongside her sister Elsa, she took over the…
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Winemaker
Adelino Pozzobon
Volpago Del Montello, Italy
Adelino Pozzobon works the vineyard and cellar at Case Paolin in Volpago del Montello as a single system: farming, timing, and cellar decisions all answering to the same…
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Adi Badenhorst
Paardeberg, South Africa
## The Path Winemaking at A.A. Badenhorst Family Wines in Paardeberg, South Africa, sits on a chain of practical steps: study at Elsenburg, cellar work at Rustenberg in…
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Adir Michaeli
New York City, New York, United States
Adir Michaeli has been baker-owner of Michaeli Bakery in New York City since 2019. In practice, that title folds together pastry discipline, opening experience, and ownership in…
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Winemaker
Adolfo de las Heras Polo
Caudete De Las Fuentes, Spain
Adolfo de las Heras Polo is the General Manager of BODEGAS NODUS in Caudete de las Fuentes, Spain, where the brief is quality wines shaped by refinement rather than haste. At…
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Adrian Claudio Lazar
Copenhagen, Denmark
His work at Warpigs Brewpub is built on American-style barbecue and smoked meats, with fire, time, and temperature treated as the core tools of the kitchen. In a setting that…
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Winemaker
Adrian Hartmann
Oberflachs, Switzerland
Adrian Hartmann has been winemaker and owner at Adrians Weingut in Oberflachs, Aargau, Switzerland, since 2015. That continuity matters: one estate, one cellar, one hand guiding…
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Adrian Kercuku
New York City, New York, United States
Executive Chef Adrian Kercuku leads Casa Lever in New York City after a route that begins in Florence, Italy, and moves through New York kitchens with Felice 56, Felice 64, and da…
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Winemaker
Adrián Moreno Llorente
Badaran, Spain
Since 2011, Adrián Moreno Llorente has worked as winemaker at RULEI / Bodega Adrián Moreno Llorente in Badarán, Spain. ## The Path The winemaking post at RULEI / Bodega Adrián…
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Adriana Antonutti
Pasian Di Prato, Italy
Adriana Antonutti’s work is defined by continuity: one producer, one Friulian base, one family name carried through CASA VINICOLA ANTONUTTI in Udine, Italy. In a field that often…
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Adriana Ochoa
Olite, Spain
Adriana Ochoa is the owner of Bodegas Ochoa in Olite, where the family name functions as lineage, not just branding. As the sixth generation to make wine in Navarra, Adriana Ochoa…
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Adriano Kaufmann
Tresa, Switzerland
## Coming Up Wine production begins with site reading before it becomes cellar work: climate, soil, vine material, harvest decisions, and the discipline of bringing fruit into…
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Adrien Layssac
Cambo-les-Bains, France
## Coming Up Seasonal market cooking is the throughline at Ama in Cambo-les-Bains, France, where Adrien Layssac works with local produce at the point when it is most direct:…
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Adrien Roustan
Vacqueyras, France
The work is built around one fixed point: wines that read as vineyard, not formula. Adrien Roustan’s practice follows that line from the cellar back into the vines, with each…
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Adrienne Borlongan
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path California State University, Northridge gave Adrienne Borlongan the base for a practice that now sits between craft and enterprise. That training shows up in the way…
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Adrin Loi
Singapore, Singapore
He helped carry forward the Ya Kun name and its signature kaya toast, keeping a familiar Singapore breakfast ritual in steady circulation for new generations. ## The Climb…
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Agnès Coutant
Saint Etienne De Lisse, France
## The Honours H.V.E 3 places the estate’s environmental work inside a defined French certification, and the category is earned through the way Coutant runs the property, not…
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Agnès Florisoone
Saint-Émilion, France
Co-ownership of Château Godeau since 2012 places Agnès Florisoone inside a long wine-growing tradition, where the work is governed by patience, discipline, and exacting standards.…
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Agnès Guérin
La Palme, France
Agnès Guérin is a proprietor and vigneronne at Domaine Les Mille Vignes in La Palme, Languedoc. She works with her sister Valérie at the family estate, whose small-production…
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Agnese Mazzei
Castellina in Chianti, Italy
In 2008, Agnese Mazzei was responsible for the Castello di Fonterutoli winery project in Castellina in Chianti, Italy, where engineering discipline and Tuscan landscape were made…
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Agustí Torelló Mata
Sant Sadurní d'Anoia, Spain
His work sits at the meeting point of family apprenticeship, formal enology studies, and a close reading of Catalonia’s cava tradition. In Agustí Torelló Mata’s hands, sparkling…
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Agustín Lombroni
Fernandez Oro, Argentina
Agustín Lombroni has been wine director and winemaker at Bodega Del Río Elorza in Fernández Oro, Río Negro, since 2012. In that role, the work sits where vineyard decisions,…
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Ah Tung
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Cantonese-style congee is the field, and Ah Tung’s work stays tightly within it. The register is restraint rather than display: bowls built on texture, warmth, and timing, with…
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Ahmed Handour
Essaouira, Morocco
Head Chef of the kitchens at Heure Bleue Palais is Ahmed Handour’s defining title, placing his work in Essaouira, Morocco. From that post and from Le Salon Oriental, he builds…
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James Beard Award winner
Ahmed Obo
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Since 2009, Jambo Café in Santa Fe, New Mexico has been shaped by Kenyan island food under Ahmed Obo, whose cooking keeps home-style warmth close to the plate. The restaurant’s…
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Ahu Hettema
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
## The Path University of California, Berkeley gave Ahu Hettema a framework of discipline and rigor that shows up in the work itself: measured execution, careful editing, and a…
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Aïda Lips
Leytron, Switzerland
Aïda Lips has been titular and manager of Cave Lips in Leytron since 2022, a role that sits inside a third-generation family winery structure rather than outside it. In Leytron,…
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Aitor Garate Berasaluze
Miami, Florida, United States
Aitor Garate Berasaluze is chef at Edan Bistro in North Miami, United States. The work there is shaped by formal training and a steady commitment to Basque cuisine, with technique…
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Aitor Jeronimo Orive
Singapore, Singapore
Born in Madrid and raised in Australia, Aitor Jeronimo Orive brought Basque cooking a set of references shaped by distance as much as by technique. Charcoal, seafood, stews, and…
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Aitor Manterola Aitor
Lezo, Spain
The #308 ranking on the 2024 Opinionated About Dining Casual Europe list went to Patxiku - Enea in Lezo, Spain, where Aitor Manterola Aitor serves as chef. The achievement points…
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Ajay Panicker
Kirkland, Washington, United States
## The Climb Hotel management training in Chennai, followed by ownership and then a kitchen defined by Kerala cooking, frames Ajay Panicker’s path with unusual clarity. At Aahaar…
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Ajit Bains
New York City, New York, United States
Brick Lane Curry House is the public marker for Ajit Bains’s work: original ownership, Manhattan operation, a Jersey City opening, and a British-style Indian format associated…
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Akhara Chay
Joucas, France
## The Path Akhara Chay’s career is built in the language of exacting kitchens: train, stage, advance, repeat. Institut Paul Bocuse provided the base, then Paris added the…
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Aki Matsuo
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path At Marugame Udon USA in Gardena, California, United States, Aki Matsuo holds the Director of Culinary role in a kitchen model built on consistency, sequence, and…
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Aki Tanaka
Barcelona, Spain
Aki Tanaka has been co-chef of Sato i Tanaka in Barcelona since 2017, a role built on precision at the counter and the patience to let service set the tempo. The work favors…
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Akihiro Horikoshi
Paris, France
## The Climb Training at 筑波大学 gave Akihiro Horikoshi an academic base before kitchen work took him to Paris, France, where he worked as chef at L'Ambroisie until 2010. That…
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Akkapong Ninsom
New York City, New York, United States
Akkapong Ninsom is chef and partner at Hat Yai in Portland, Oregon, and the work at that restaurant reads as a precise regional statement rather than a general Thai menu. The…
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Winemaker
Alain Brumont
Castelnau Riviere Basse, France
Alain Brumont is a figure whose professional life is defined by two intertwined responsibilities: owner at Alain Brumont in Southwest, France, and winemaker at Alain Brumont and…
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Alain de Laguiche
Arlay, France
## The Path At Château d'Arlay, Jura, France, Alain de Laguiche worked at the helm of Château d'Arlay until 2021, a position that placed him inside a place where winegrowing,…
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Alain Emery
Aigle, Switzerland
He took over the management of the estate in 2007, stepping into a lineage that he describes with pride and continuity: "For 5 generations, our family has been working on their…
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Alain Guiard
Barcelona, Spain
## Coming Up At La Mundana, the work is defined less by a career arc than by continuity: Alain Guiard has served as executive chef there since 2015, after opening the Barcelona…
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Alain Huang
Taipei, Taiwan
Bitter Melon, Salted Duck Egg, Grains reworks a Taiwanese staple: Salted Duck Egg and Bitter Melon congee. At Raw (Taipei), Alain Huang treats that home-cooking reference with…
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Alain Moueix
Saint-Émilion, France
## The Climb At Château Mazeyres in Libourne, Alain Moueix works as director of the vineyard, a role built on stewardship, patience, and close observation. The path to that…
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Winemaker
Alain Parisod
Grandvaux, Switzerland
Owner, winegrower and cellar master at Domaine de la Grille in Grandvaux, Switzerland, Alain Parisod carries the central responsibility for a Parisod family estate. His work is…
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Alain Pascal
La Cadière-d'Azur, France
That earlier arc points directly to the cellar work Alain Pascal carries today: the reputation rests on Domaine du Gros 'Noré, where Bandol reds set the center of gravity and the…
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Alain Raynaud
Pomerol, France
## The Climb In Bordeaux, the manager’s job is measured in timing, judgment, and the ability to keep a property moving without losing its shape. Alain Raynaud entered that frame…
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Alain Rolaz
Gilly, Switzerland
## The Path Estate winemaking at Domaine de Chantegrive has been defined by continuity rather than rotation. Alain Rolaz took over the family property in 1992, and since 1993 he…
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Alain Sacy
Verzy, France
His work is framed in family terms, and that language is part of the method: “We are a family-run Champagne house (Champagne Louis de Sacy).” In Alain Sacy’s case, the house is…
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Alam Méndez Florián
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
His cooking starts with Traditional Oaxacan cuisine, then applies Mexican technique to ingredients close at hand. The result is work that keeps memory and place in the same frame,…
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Winemaker
Alan McCorkindale
Christchurch, New Zealand
Alan McCorkindale works as the winemaker of Alan McCorkindale Limited in Christchurch, with Riesling as the stated center of the brief. That combination gives the work a narrow…
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Winemaker
Alban Corbeaux
Verzy, France
Since 2017, Alban Corbeaux has held the winemaker post at Champagne Pierre Deville in Verzy, Champagne, France. The shape of the role is straightforward: training in Burgundy,…
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Albéric Florisoone
Saint-Émilion, France
Viticulturist Albéric Florisoone of VIGNOBLES FLORISOONE in France works from a plain idea: wines should read as a transcription of the soil through the vine. At Château Godeau in…
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Albert Benvenuti
Montovun, Croatia
## At a Glance - Current role: owner. - Company: BENVENUTI WINES. - Country: Croatia. - Named wine: Santa Elisabetta. - Craft note: effort, sacrifice, and pride are the terms he…
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Winemaker
Albert Costa
Porrera Tarragona, Spain
His work is centered on Priorat wines, and Albert Costa says so plainly: “I’m dedicated to capturing the essence of Priorat.” In a region where identity is tied to place, that…
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Winemaker
Albert Jané
Els Guiamets, Spain
Albert Jan has been making wine at Acústic Celler in Marçà since 2003, and the work is built on a vineyard-first discipline rather than a cellar-led one. Growing up in a family of…
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Pastry chef
Albert Roux
London, United Kingdom
Born in Semur-en-Brionnais, France, on 8 October 1935, Albert Roux became a durable reference for Great French cooking in the UK through work that prized discipline, warmth, and…
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Winemaker
Alberto Alessandria
La Morra, Italy
Alberto Alessandria works at Crissante Alessandria in La Morra, where the standard is set by discernment rather than display. The line that frames the house is direct: “Better to…
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Alberto Antoniolo
Gattinara, Italy
His work sits inside one estate and one landscape: Antoniolo in Gattinara, northern Piedmont, where Alberto Antoniolo is centered on wine rather than service, dining-room…
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Alberto Ballarin
La Morra, Italy
Alberto Ballarin works as winemaker at Cascina Ballarin in La Morra, Italy, where the role sits inside a family estate and depends on continuity as much as technique. Since 2013,…
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Chef
Alberto Bettini
Savigno, Italy
His defining act came in 1988, when Alberto Bettini took over the family trattoria and committed himself to a long stewardship grounded in place, producers, and the basic…
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Winemaker
Alberto Bocelli
Lajatico, Italy
Alberto Bocelli’s work at Bocelli 1831 in Lajatico sits across Terre di Sandro IGT and Bianco Toscana IGT, keeping the winery’s production tied to named bottlings rather than…
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Winemaker
Alberto Cobo
Valbuena de Duero, Spain
Alberto Cobo’s work in Ribera del Duero is defined by a move from pharmacy into wine, and by the dual discipline that followed. Based in Valladolid and originally from Jaén, he…
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Chef
Alberto Criado
London, United Kingdom
Executive chef Alberto Criado keeps the standard at Cambio de Tercio in London tied to a simple brief: “What matters to us is that everything is exquisite.” That measure sits over…
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Winemaker
Alberto d’Attimis-Maniago
Buttrio, Italy
Alberto d’Attimis-Maniago is the owner of Conte d’Attimis-Maniago in Buttrio, Italy. He also leads the family business there, keeping the role tied to the estate itself rather…
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Winemaker
Alberto Grasselli
Pratissolo Di Scandiano, Italy
Alberto Grasselli’s work is tied to Casali Viticultori in Pratissolo di Scandiano, Reggio Emilia, Italy, where his record includes employment from 2000 to 2009 and his current…
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General Manager and Oenologist, Cadis 1898
Alberto Marchisio
Soave, Italy
Alberto Marchisio is the general manager and an oenologist at Cadis 1898 in Soave, Veneto. He joined the cooperative wine group in May 2024 after working at Cantine Vitevis, where…
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Winemaker
Alberto Mazzoni
San Paolo Di Jesi, Italy
Alberto Mazzoni works across vineyard, cellar, and consortium life in the Marche, where the job is as much about technical consistency as it is about keeping a region legible to…
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Chef
Alberto Melano.
Saluzzo, Italy
Alberto Melano’s work is defined by a single house: Locanda Corona di Ferro in Saluzzo, Italy. In a trade that often measures itself by movement and accumulation, his practice…
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Alberto Quadrio
Milan, Italy
## The Climb At Cucine Nervi in Gattinara, Alberto Quadrio’s 2021–2021 stint as chef reads as an early marker: a short but clear entry point in a career shaped by steady…
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Alberto Salinas
Pasai Donibane, Spain
## The Path The Jefe de cocina role at Casa Cámara calls for control over a coastal Basque register: fish, shellfish, vegetables and oil handled without excess. In that position,…
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Alberto Spezzamonte
Venice, Italy
Before Alberto Spezzamonte took on Estro in Venice, Italy, in 2014, the work had already been built in spare time and in other kitchens: at friends’ restaurants, in Venice, and…
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