The People · Page 88
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Carol Duval-Leroy
Vertus, France
Since 1991, Carol Duval-Leroy has served as president and chief executive officer of Champagne Duval-Leroy in Vertus, France. She took charge after her husband’s death, and the…
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Carol Reyes
San Juan, Puerto Rico
“My mission with Boba is to showcase what we're capable of doing here in Puerto Rico.” For Carol Reyes, Executive Chef of Bóveda Restaurante in San Juan, Puerto Rico, that…
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Winemaker
Carole Doyard-Mahé
Blancs-Coteaux, France
Carole Doyard-Mahé is the winemaker and head of Champagne Doyard-Mahé in Blancs-Coteaux, where the house’s style is built on precision, patience, and a controlled hand in the…
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Winemaker
Carole Pellet
Praz Vully, Switzerland
Carole Pellet is the vigneron-winemaker of Cave aux Hirondelles in Praz (Vully), Switzerland, a role that places her at the meeting point of vineyard, cellar, and landscape. In a…
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Chef
Carolyn Bane
New York City, New York, United States
She came up through books and home recipes first: Carolyn Bane says she loved cooking and cookbooks from a young age, and remembers leafing through her mother’s yellow box of…
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Cary Hynes
Miami, Florida, United States
The attention around Cary Hynes came through a menu built on precision rather than sprawl: bar food, drinks, creative pastas, and Parker house rolls. In a dining field that often…
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Winemaker
Caspar Eugster
Allaman, France
"High-altitude viticulture is still being invented," Caspar Eugster says, and the sentence carries the force of a working principle rather than a slogan. Since 2016, the Swiss…
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Casper Engel Rasmussen
Copenhagen, Denmark
Casper Engel Rasmussen is a Coffee Collective co-founder and Roastery Manager. He is responsible for roast quality and helps the company manage its coffee quality from sourcing…
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Chef
Cassie Piuma
Somerville, Massachusetts, United States
## The Path Training at Johnson & Wales University set the base for Cassie Piuma’s work, but the kitchens that followed did the heavier lifting. At Al Forno in Providence, Rhode…
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Catalin Lupu
Pozuelo De Alarcon, Spain
In Pozuelo de Alarcón, Spain, the work begins with meat chosen by hand, time held in a dry-aging locker, and the direct heat of fire. Catalin Lupu, chef and owner of La Taberna de…
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Catalina Vélez
Cali, Colombia
The working brief at Domingo in Cali, Colombia, joins kitchen direction with public-facing restaurant work. As chef and social manager, Catalina Velez operates in the space…
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Cathal Armstrong
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
Cathal Armstrong’s arc runs from Dublin, Ireland, where a college job turned into a kitchen life, to Washington, D.C, where he owned Kaliwa from 2018 to 2024. Along the way came…
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Winemaker
Catherine Marshall
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Catherine Marshall is a winemaker at Catherine Marshall Wines, where her work is shaped by a keen, exacting focus on Pinot Noir. Her own description of the role carries the same…
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Winemaker
Catherine Montahuc
Malvies, France
Her connection to the estate goes back to 2006, when Catherine Montahuc was production manager there. That kind of early, hands-on role puts her inside the working life of the…
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Chef
Cathrine Østerberg
Copenhagen, Denmark
## Coming Up Master’s-level training in Gastronomy & Health gave Cathrine Østerberg a technical frame for work that sits between service and science. That education shows up in…
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Cédric Duthilleul
Paris, France
## The Climb Career depth in this kind of house is usually built by repetition: service after service, room after room, until technique, judgment, and timing settle into place.…
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Cédric Grolet
Paris, France
“My focus is exclusively on flavor. It always has been and always will be.” In contemporary French pastry, that position sets the order of work: taste first, then structure,…
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Winemaker
Cédric Moussé
Cuisles, France
## Coming Up At Champagne Moussé Fils in Cuisles, France, the work is organized around Meunier, which gives Cédric Mouss’s practice its clearest technical center. In Champagne,…
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Celestino Drago
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path At Pierino in Pisa, the work began in a restaurant setting that gave Celestino Drago his first professional rhythm and anchored him in the pace of Italian kitchens.…
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Winemaker
Céline Champalou
Vouvray, France
## The Climb Since 2006, the work at Domaine Champalou in Vouvray has been carried by Céline Champalou as owner and winemaker, a transition into the family estate marked by plain…
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Céline Villars
Avensan, France
## Career Owner and winegrower of Château Citran in Avensan, Céline Villars works from the production side of the Médoc, where estate decisions are tied to the vineyard and the…
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Winemaker
Celso Pereira
Alijo, Portugal
Celso Pereira is the winemaker of Caves Transmontanas in Alijó, Portugal, and the work has been anchored to one producer for decades. Since 1989, that continuity has defined the…
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Chef
Cemal Yıldırım
Izmir, Turkey
Executive Chef Cemal Yıldırım leads Gula Urla in İzmir, Turkey. ## The Path A kitchen point of view is tested in daily service, not in declarations. At the restaurant, Cemal…
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Chad Conley
Portland, Maine, United States
American Deli cooking at Oakville Grocery in Oakville, California works best when the format stays familiar and the sourcing stays alert. As Executive Chef, Chad Conley uses the…
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Chan Hon Meng
Singapore, Singapore
## Coming Up Apprenticeship under a Hong Kong chef in Singapore gave Chan Hon Meng the repetition and close control that shape hawker cooking at its most exacting. In that kind of…
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Chan Wai Ting
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Chan Wai Ting’s profile is built around one kitchen and one brief: Greater China Club in Hong Kong. That narrow frame is not a limitation so much as the point. In a trade where…
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Finance Director
Chantal Gonet Brégeon
Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, France
## The Path Finance training at Ecole Polytechnique Feminine (EPF) and Dijon gave Chantal Gonet Brégeon a route into the commercial side of Champagne, before an export sales role…
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Winemaker
Chantal Michel-Tortochot
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
Her work is tied to traditionalist wines built on pure fruit and transparency of place, a style that puts clarity ahead of embellishment. In Burgundy, Chantal Michel-Tortochot is…
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Chao Wang
Manhattan, New York, United States
## Where They Are Now Before Chao Wang ran a restaurant kitchen, he trained at China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and the New York Academy of Art. That background shows up in…
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Winemaker, Domaine Ballot-Millot
Charles Ballot
Meursault, France
Meursault work at Domaine Ballot-Millot sits inside a long village line: 17 generations tied to the wines of Meursault, France, reaching back to the French Revolution. Charles…
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Charles Boixel
Paris, France
Executive Chef Charles Boixel runs Café César in Clichy as a French bistronomic kitchen, with his own brief for the food: “a bit of cosmopolitan influence, let’s say, generous,…
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Winemaker
Charles Carichon
Sarrians, France
Charles Carichon’s work at Domaine de la Brunely has been defined by restraint: in Sarrians, France, the aim is not to impose a signature over the fruit, but to let the place…
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Charles Kelsey
Brookline, Massachusetts, United States
## The Climb At the Culinary Institute of America, Charles Kelsey built the formal training that later informed a career moving between food media and the sandwich counter. A…
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Winemaker
Charles Magnien
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
Charles Magnien’s work at Domaine Henri Magnien in Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy, France, is built on succession. He took over from his father in 2009, then assumed oversight of the…
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Charles Palmer
Winchelsea, United Kingdom
## The Path Mechanical engineering training set the first frame for Charles Palmer’s work: structure, systems, and an eye for how parts hold together. That discipline was followed…
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Winemaker
Charles Perez
Nyls Ponteilla, France
## Career Since 2008, Domaine du Mas Bécha has been under the direction of Charles Perez in Nyls-Ponteilla, France. The work there has been defined less by expansion than by…
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Charles Phan
San Francisco, California, United States
Charles Phan shaped modern Vietnamese American dining through a practice built on place, service, and control of detail. At The Slanted Door in San Francisco, he used modern…
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Winemaker
Charles Rolaz
Rolle, Switzerland
## Coming Up Swiss wine governance, rather than cellar spectacle, defined the early public work of Charles Rolaz. As president of the commission of the 1ers Grands Crus at…
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Charles Savigneux
Saint Medard D Eyrans, France
## Coming Up Agricultural engineering at Ecole d'Ingénieurs de PURPAN gives Charles Savigneux a foundation built on method, observation, and an eye for the conditions that shape a…
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Charles Schumann
Munich, Germany
## The Essentials At Schumanns Bar in Munich, Charles Schumann has built a bar around exactitude, pacing, and control of atmosphere. What matters is the bar’s rhythm, the guest’s…
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Winemaker
Charles-Louis de Noüe
Kojsko, Slovenia
Charles-Louis de Noüe presides over Domaine Vicomte de Noüe-Marinič in Kojsko, Slovenia, where ownership and stewardship sit in the same hand. The estate’s identity is tied to…
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Sommelier
Charlie Marshall
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up Since 2013, Charlie Marshall has run The Marshal in New York City as chef and owner, with the restaurant built on a clear trade position: place is not garnish, it is…
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Winemaker
Charlotte Burgat
Colombier, Switzerland
Since 2022, Charlotte Burgat has worked as oenologist at Domaine de Chambleau in Colombier, Switzerland, where the pace of the estate follows the seasons and the demands of the…
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Winemaker
Charlotte Denis
Mareuil Sur Cher, France
Charlotte Denis has been winemaker at Domaine de la Renaudie in Mareuil-sur-Cher, Touraine, Loire Valley, France, since 2020, bringing a measured hand to a place that seems to…
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Winemaker
Charly Rol
Langenlois, Austria
French winemaking here is defined by place, and Charly Rol in Senftenberg is framed by that connection. The work is plain in its terms: winemaker, with the vineyard and cellar…
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Chef
Charo Carmona
Málaga, Spain
Charo Carmona’s cooking at Arte de Cozina in Antequera, Málaga, Spain is built on recovery as method. The work does not treat old recipes as museum pieces; it brings them back…
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Chatchai Huadwattana
New York City, New York, United States
Founder of Spot Dessert Bar in New York City, Chatchai Huadwattana has built a career that is centered on dessert as a category, not as a side note. The work is tied to a single…
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James Beard Award winner
Cheetie Kumar
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
In Raleigh, North Carolina, Cheetie Kumar has built a cooking style that feels at once expansive and grounded: a cuisine shaped by South Asian spices, the foodways and cultures of…
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Chef
Chef Cédric Béchade
Saint-Pée-sur-Nivelle, France
He has said, "My favorite place is the mountains." ## Today At La Table de l'Auberge Basque Restaurant, Chef Cédric Béchade works from a setting that matches the logic of his…
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Chef Christophe Chiavola
Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France
Christophe Chiavola has been Executive Chef at Restaurant Gastronomique Le Prieuré in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon since 2023. In a dining room that asks for stillness and attention,…
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Chef Christophe Hay
Blois, France
Christophe Hay’s work in Blois is built around place as a working method: the city is not just a setting, but the frame for both the kitchen and the house around it. As chef of…
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Chef
Chef Claus-Peter Lumpp
Baiersbronn Mitteltal, Germany
Claus-Peter Lumpp’s career is one fact: he is Executive Chef at Gourmet-Restaurant Bareiss in Baiersbronn-Mitteltal, Germany. It is where training, repetition, and accumulated…
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Chef Filipe Silvestre
Missillac, France
## The Climb At Le Club Restaurant in Missillac, France, the lunch menu carries Filipe Silvestre’s name, and the work reads differently as the day moves on. Midday service is…
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Chef Hernán Zavaleta
Luján de Cuyo, Argentina
## Coming Up At Awasi Mendoza Restaurant, the chef’s work is built around place: local flavours, pace, and the requirement to let exceptional wines carry their own weight. Hernán…
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Chef Juan Pablo Bonaveri
El Calafate - Santa Cruz, Argentina
Juan Pablo Bonaveri’s cooking at EOLO Restaurant in El Calafate, Santa Cruz, Argentina, is built from regional products and shaped by a precise, contemporary hand. The work reads…
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Chef Martin Herrmann
Bad Peterstal Griesbach, Germany
At Le Pavillon in Bad Peterstal-Griesbach, Germany, Martin Herrmann’s cooking begins with Baden material: Bühler Zwetschge cooked in red wine with sugar and spices, freshly caught…
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Chef Masahiro Tanabe
Matsumoto, Japan
Born in Tochigi Prefecture in 1975, Masahiro Tanabe’s work sits at the meeting point of French technique and Japanese ingredients. The line to that style runs through a family…
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Chef Nena
Itacaré, Brazil
## The Climb Training at Jones College, Everetts University, and Auguste Escoffier School of Culinary Arts gave Chef Nena a base that can move across kitchen work, catering, and…
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Chef Richard Picard-Edwards
Ballyfin, Ireland
Richard Picard-Edwards is Executive Head Chef at State Dining Room Restaurant in Ballyfin, Ireland, where the role is less a title than a daily standard to be upheld. In a setting…
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Chef Ryan Smith
Gay, Georgia, United States
## Coming Up Formal training at the Culinary Institute of America gave Chef Ryan Smith a base in technique and discipline that shows up across the rest of his work. That…
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Chen Lieh Tang
New York City, New York, United States
# The Path Since 2017, Chen Lieh Tang has held the combined role of owner and head chef at Hwa Yuan Szechuan. That pairing matters: ownership fixes the standard, and the kitchen…
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Cheng Ying Wu
New York City, New York, United States
Cheng Ying Wu’s work at Little Pepper is defined by two linked kinds of responsibility: the repeatable demands of service and the longer view of keeping a restaurant identity…
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Cheong Yew
London, United Kingdom
His work there centers on Cantonese roast craft, unfolding in a fixed sequence: marinate inside, rub outside, hang and fan-dry overnight, then roast, rest, and serve. The method…
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Chef
Chiara Barla
Copenhagen, Denmark
Chiara Barla runs Apotek 57 in Copenhagen as owner, baker, and chef, with the menu shaped around daily house-made seasonal bites and beverages. Breakfast and lunch carry the load,…
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Winemaker
Chiara Boschis
Barolo, Italy
Since 1981, ownership and winemaking have been joined in Chiara Boschis’s work at Azienda Agricola E. Pira E Figli in Barolo. The family’s purchase of the estate that year…
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Chiara Pavan
Mazzorbo, Italy
## The Climb University of Pisa and ALMA School of Culinary Arts gave Chiara Pavan a technical base built on discipline and precision. That training shows in a kitchen language…
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Chiel de Groot
Hardenberg, Netherlands
Chiel de Groot's work is built on a dual remit: owner and chef at Amused Food & Wine in Hardenberg since 2017. That combination keeps the craft close to the room and the pass,…
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Chika Tillman
New York City, New York, United States
Chika Tillman is the founder, chef, and owner of ChikaLicious Dessert Bar in New York City, and she has received the Top Pastry Chef award sponsored by Cacao Barry. The work…
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Chip Smith
New York City, New York, United States
Chip Smith cooks at Eulalie in New York City with French and Classic French technique as the base, then lets North Carolina read through the work. The point is not fusion as a…
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Founder of Balcones Distilling; Master Distiller for Innovation, Foley Family Wines & Spirits
Chip Tate
Santa Rosa, California, United States
Chip Tate became Master Distiller for Innovation at Foley Family Wines in Santa Rosa, California, United States, in 2024. The through line in his work runs through Waco, Texas:…
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Chef
chiro Kubota
Kyoto, Japan
# Chiro Kubota ## The Path The early training at **Kappo Hassun in Kyoto** and then at **Tsuruya main restaurant in Osaka** set the working grammar of the kitchen: precision,…
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Winemaker
Chris Alheit
Hermanus, South Africa
Chris Alheit is the winemaker at Alheit Vineyards on Hemel-en-Aarde Ridge in Walker Bay, South Africa, where the landscape itself seems to set the terms of the conversation. His…
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Chris Beckett
Paso Robles, California, United States
## Coming Up Training at Antelope Valley High School and California School of Culinary Arts gave Chris Beckett the base every line cook needs: discipline, pace, and repetition…
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Chris D'Ambro
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
## The Route The cooking at Southwark and Ambra is built around close handling: pasta, broth, game, mushrooms, and the point at which richness still keeps a clear line. Chris…
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Chris Dargavel
New York City, New York, United States
Focaccia with anchovy butter is the clearest read on Chris Dargavel’s kitchen: bread handled for warmth and structure, anchovy butter for saline depth, and a finish that stays…
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Chef
Chris Eley
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Since 2007, Goose the Market in Indianapolis has been the public anchor of Chris Eley’s work. The throughline is place: an Indianapolis native working in the Midwest, with…
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Chris Hathcock
Savannah, Georgia, United States
## The Path Forestry studies at the University of Georgia gave Chris Hathcock a way of reading systems, seasons, and the slower logic of growth before he ever took on the line.…
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Chris Hendrickson
Chicago, Illinois, United States
For an operator, longevity is not decoration. It is the craft. ## The Climb Training at North Dakota State College of Science (1992) and West Fargo High School gave Chris…
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Chris Huerta
San Antonio de Areco, Argentina
## Coming Up The early cadence of kitchen work took shape in 1998 in a local coffee shop and bakery in Aiken, South Carolina, where fresh bakes, early service, and the pace of…
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Chris Kajioka
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
## Coming Up The line from school to serious kitchens runs straight through Chris Kajioka’s early career. After training at the Culinary Institute of America, he moved through a…
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Chris Keung
Hangzhou, China
He gives regional cooking a technical frame. ## The Climb Regional cooking at Ming Kitchen is handled as a working discipline, not a reference category. In Hangzhou, China, Chris…
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Chris Lilly
Decatur, Alabama, United States
Chris Lilly is Vice President and fourth-generation partner at Big Bob Gibson Bar-B-Q in Decatur, Alabama, where the work is tied to continuity, inherited standards, and the daily…
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Chris MacCormick
Göttingen, Germany
Chris MacCormick is Head Chef at Freigeist Nordstadt in Göttingen, Germany, working in a career built through training, station responsibility, hotel kitchen leadership, and a…
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Chris Maybury
Sydney, Australia
Chris Maybury is a specialty-coffee barista at Beta Coffee in Surry Hills, Sydney. At Beta he develops an exploratory program spanning espresso, pour-over, signature drinks and…
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Chris Phelps
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path Since 2010, Salt's Cure has been under Chris Phelps as chef/owner, and that kind of tenure matters in kitchen terms. It points to more than continuity; it points to…
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Winemaker
Chris Ringland
Jumilla Murcia, Spain
Oenology training and Barossa Shiraz production form the working frame of Chris Ringland’s career. Study at the University of Adelaide and Roseworthy Agricultural College preceded…
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Chef
Chris Santos
New York City, New York, United States
Chris Santos has worked the floor plan of share-plate dining from the kitchen side, shaping Beauty & Essex in New York City around small plates and cocktails with a revisionist…
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Winemaker
Chris Thomas
McLaren Vale, Australia
## Coming Up At The University of Adelaide, Chris Thomas built the scientific grounding that later shaped a cellar-side approach to winemaking. That training carried into Vintage…
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Winemaker
Christelle Sorge
Soussans, France
Christelle Sorge has been responsible for Château Deyrem Valentin in Soussans, France, and the work is the place itself. Born at Deyrem-Valentin, she has lived and worked where…
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Chef
Christer Økland
Bergen, Norway
Bergen, Norway, sets a practical frame for Modern Norwegian cooking: season, weather, maritime setting, and a tempo that suits patient work. In Christer Økland’s kitchen, seasonal…
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Winemaker
Christian Bellei
Bomporto, Italy
## Coming Up At Cantina della Volta in Bomporto, Christian Bellei has built his work around sparkling wine and Lambrusco di Sorbara, with the winery he founded in 2010 as the base…
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Christian Dauriac
Saint Hippolyte, France
Christian Dauriac owns Château Destieux in Saint-Hippolyte, France, a property tied to Saint-Émilion Grand Cru Classé wine. In that setting, Destieux is framed as the product of…
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Winemaker
Christian Dugon
Bofflens, Switzerland
## Coming Up Changins gave Christian Dugon the technical base for a practice built on vineyard work as much as cellar work. The training established the discipline behind his…
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Winemaker
Christian Ehrlich
Rodelsee, Germany
## The Climb The work at Weinmanufaktur 3 Zeilen has been shaped by continuity, with Christian Ehrlich in the role of Inhaber since 2007. ## Today That position still anchors the…
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Winemaker
Christian Greber
Bregenz, Austria
Christian Greber is CEO and founder of Alpdrinks in Götzis, Vorarlberg, Austria. A Weinakademiker, he is defined by the company he built and leads, with his professional work tied…
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Winemaker
Christian Guyot
Bernex, Switzerland
## The Essentials Christian Guyot works as both winegrower and encaveur in Bernex, Geneva, Switzerland, a dual role that keeps vineyard work and cellar work in the same hands.…
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Winemaker
Christian Mayrhofer
Horitschon, Austria
Christian Mayrhofer makes wine at Domaine Mayrhofer in Horitschon, Burgenland, Austria. The work is tied to place first: Horitschon supplies the frame, and the cellar job is to…
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Winemaker
Christian Mrozowski
Hohenruppersdorf, Austria
Christian Mrozowski is the winemaker of Bioweinbau Christian Mrozowski in Hohenruppersdorf, Austria, a professional identity that reads with striking clarity: one person, one…
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Winemaker
Christian Perraudin
Saillon, Switzerland
Winemaking at Cave de la Sarvaz in Saillon, Switzerland, is built on omission as much as process. Christian Perraudin works with vines cultivated without herbicides, and in the…
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Chef
Christian Petersen
Buenos Aires, Argentina
## The Recognition The primary public marker of Christian Petersen’s career is the chef title at Hermanos, the dining room in Argentina’s capital through which his cooking is…
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