The People · Page 90
The artisans of taste.
Chef
Damien Rigollet
London, United Kingdom
## The Climb Damien Rigollet trained at Chambre de Commerce de Versailles, a grounding that gave his career the discipline and classical polish that would later define his kitchen…
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Winemaker
Damijan Podversic
Gorizia, Italy
## The Path At Azienda Agricola Damijan Podversic in Gorizia, the winemaking rests on vineyard recovery, family trade, and a measured move toward bottling under Damijan…
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Chef
Damon Baehrel
Earlton, New York, United States
Damon Baehrel in Earlton, New York is built on a single-property model in which growing, gathering, preserving, cooking, and service are kept under one set of hands. Damon…
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Chef
Dan Jacobs
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Dan Jacobs works the line between memory and structure at EsterEv in Milwaukee. Chicago roots, Milwaukee kitchens, and a practice shaped through repetition give his cooking its…
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Dan Perretta
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Head of Culinary at Groot Hospitality, Dan Perretta’s career reads as incremental kitchen work: training first, then service, then broader control over standards and rhythm. The…
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Chef
Dan Raskin
Chicago, Illinois, United States
His work is tied to the restaurant that raised him and still defines the standard he keeps in place. For Dan Raskin, ownership at Manny’s Cafeteria & Delicatessen is about…
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Dan Serfer
Miami, Florida, United States
Dan Serfer is chef of Mignonette in Miami, United States, where the room may run on energy but the kitchen is built on precision, not fuss. ## Coming Up At Mignonette, the work…
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James Beard Award winner
Dan Sidner
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Founder and co-owner of Black Shoe Hospitality in Milwaukee, Dan Sidner has built his work around the less visible machinery that makes restaurants run smoothly: systems and…
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Chef
Dan Van Rite
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
## The Climb Training at Western Culinary Institute set the baseline for Dan Van Rite: timing, repetition, and the technical habits that make a kitchen run. Executive chef at…
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Dan Weiland
Chicago, Illinois, United States
## The Climb Chicago kitchens set the terms for Dan Weiland’s early work: pace, precision, and the expectation that every plate carry a clear point of view. ## Today At About Last…
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Winemaker
Danie Malan
Riebeeck West, South Africa
In Riebeeck West, Allesverloren Wine Estate stands as the fixed point around which Danie Malan’s career has long revolved: red wines, cellar work, and a Malan family line carried…
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Pastry Chef
Daniel Amrein
Wauwil, Switzerland
## The Climb The handover of a family bakery in 1991 set the frame for Daniel Amrein’s early career: a direct continuation of Bäckerei und Café des Vaters in Wauwil, taken up as…
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Winemaker
Daniel Beck
Nittel, Germany
Daniel Beck is winemaker at BioWeingut Beck-Winter in Nittel, Germany, where the work is carried through family continuity and organic practice. The estate is described from…
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Chef
Daniel Bojorquez
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Fire is the defining material in Daniel Bojorquez’s work at La Brasa in East Somerville, Massachusetts: heat, char, smoke, and the memory of cooking rooted in a Mexican…
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Chef
Daniel Burns
New York City, New York, United States
A Canadian from Nova Scotia, Daniel Burns built his practice in the tight overlap between pastry, beer, and research. The work reads less like a linear climb than a set of…
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Winemaker
Daniel Etter
Savièse, Switzerland
From the founding of Cave Boléro in Savièse, Switzerland, to the work of owning it today, Daniel Etter’s path has moved through one demanding idea: wine as something alive,…
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Chef
Daniel Ganem
Coral Gables, Florida, United States
In Coral Gables, the cooking is organized around cold fish work, pasta dough, pumpkin, sage, cheese, and the daily discipline of a seafood-minded Italian kitchen. At Fiola Miami,…
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Chef
Daniel Garcia
Madrid, Spain
Daniel Garcia serves as Executive Chef of Casa Dani in Madrid, a restaurant opened in 1991 by Garcia and Dolores Cuerda. Over more than three decades, Casa Dani has been defined…
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Chef
Daniel Olivella
San Francisco, California, United States
Daniel Olivella is the chef-owner of Barlata Tapas Bar in Austin, Texas, a title earned through a career centered on Catalan cuisine. A native of Vilafranca del Penedes,…
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James Beard Award winner
Daniel Patterson
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Path Daniel Patterson trained at Duke University before moving into a sequence of kitchens that maps a specific California line of work. At Babette's in Sonoma, California,…
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Winemaker
Daniel Schwarzenbach
Nelson, New Zealand
His work has been centred on aromatic wines, a style that depends on patience, precision and control of fragrance, texture and lift. Daniel Schwarzenbach frames the craft in…
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Chef
Daniel Sharp
New York City, New York, United States
Daniel Sharp moves through New York City with the calm, efficient energy of someone who has spent years learning how to make a kitchen hum. As Executive Chef of The Meatball Shop…
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Winemaker
Daniel Then
Sommerach, Germany
Daniel Then works as a winemaker at BIO-Weingut Daniel Then in Sommerach, where organic wines set the pace in the cellar and shape the bottles that leave it. The estate name and…
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Winemaker
Daniel Zuzulo
Willunga, Australia
Daniel Zuzulo moves through wine with the quiet authority of someone equally at home in the vineyard’s broad sweep and the cellar’s fine-grained decisions. He works as wine…
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Chef
Daniela Damasceno
Governador Celso Ramos, Brazil
## Coming Up At Univali (Universidade do Vale do Itajaí), Daniela Damasceno built the technical base that now supports her work at Restaurant Awasi Santa Catarina. The value of…
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Daniela Moiseev
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Daniela Moiseev is the on-the-pass chef at Kokoro in Dubai's Alserkal Avenue. She leads the current open-kitchen team producing made-to-order Japanese hand rolls, nigiri, sashimi…
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Chef
Daniela Moreira
Washington DC, Washington DC, United States
Daniela Moreira’s work at Timber Pizza Co. In Washington, D.C. is built from formal study, an internship at Eleven Madison Park in New York City, and the kind of repetition that…
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Winemaker
Daniela Olivero
Vezza D Alba, Italy
## Coming Up Daniela Olivero’s current work is built on stewardship: entrepreneur at Antica Cascina dei Conti di Roero, and co-leader of the company with Luigi Roagna of Antica…
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Winemaker
Daniele Accordini
Negrar, Italy
Winemaker at Domìni Veneti, Daniele Accordini also serves as enologist and general manager at Cantina Valpolicella Negrar, Italy. The work sits at the junction of cellar…
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Winemaker
Daniele Dzieduszycki
Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy
Daniele Dzieduszycki works the agricultural side of Fattoria di Sammontana in Montelupo Fiorentino, Tuscany, where the estate’s identity has been shaped by the family across…
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Winemaker
Daniele Rossi
Torgiano, Italy
Daniele Rossi works from the cellar at Cantina Daniele Rossi in Torgiano, where his focus has been on winemaking since 2017. The work sits inside a wider practice that connects…
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Chef
Daniele Sperindio
Singapore, Singapore
Daniele Sperindio is the chef and owner of Art di Daniele Sperindio in Singapore, where Italian fine dining is handled with polish, restraint, and intent. The work is built around…
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Chef
Danielle Duran Zecca
Los Angeles, California, United States
Danielle Duran Zecca is the chef of Amiga Amore in Los Angeles, where her cooking is centered on Mexltalian cuisine, a style that feels both intuitive and intentional in her…
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Danile Boulud
New York City, New York, United States
Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Chandieu, France, in 1955, Danile Boulud was shaped by a farm outside Lyon where seasonality, labor, and close reading of the land were part of daily life.…
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Danile Maldonado
Quito, Ecuador
Danile Maldonado is the chef of URKO in Quito, where he has been chef and owner since 2015. In a city that rewards focus and patience, Maldonado has built a practice that runs on…
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Danilo Brunetti
Milan, Italy
## Beginnings At Luigino, the family pizzeria in Cetraro, Calabria, pizza was the first discipline on the bench for Danilo Brunetti. Luigi Brunetti, his father, guided that early…
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Danny Bowien
San Francisco, California, United States
Danny Bowien’s cooking is built around impact rather than polish: high heat, hard seasoning, and cross-cultural combinations that read clearly on the plate. At Mission Chinese…
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Danny Do
New York City, New York, United States
At Hanoi House in New York City, the work reads from the grammar of Northern Vietnamese cooking: clear intent, close attention, and names that point back to Hanoi. Danny Do’s…
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Danny Ibarra
San Antonio, Texas, United States
The title is the defining fact of his public culinary work, linking Danny Ibarra’s name to Boudro’s on the Riverwalk through two house signatures: tableside guacamole and a…
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Chef
Danny Trejo
Los Angeles, California, United States
Danny Trejo’s restaurant work is anchored in Trejo’s Tacos in Los Angeles, where tacos are the specialty and the concept stays as direct as the man behind it. The line he uses to…
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Chef
Dany Karam
Sydney, Australia
## The Climb The fire and grill station at BLACK Bar & Grill at The Star in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia asks for control: heat management, timing, and enough patience to…
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Winemaker
Dany Rolland
Saillans, France
She grew up in the Dordogne, outside the day-to-day logic of vineyard life, and that distance later became an advantage in Fronsac. In a district where inheritance can carry as…
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Chef
Dario Avenca
London, United Kingdom
French technique, London dining-room discipline, and a precise fine-dining register define the professional ground around Dario Avenca. The route runs from the south plains of…
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Winemaker
Dario Borgogno
Castiglione Falletto, Italy
Dario Borgogno works the cellar at Azienda Agricola Cavalier Bartolomeo in Castiglione Falletto, Italy, where continuity is paired with measured adjustment. The same estate…
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Winemaker
Dario Bove
Avezzano, Italy
Dario Bove is the winemaker of Cantine Bove, and his work there is shaped by a clear, almost uncompromising brief: to make honest wines that offer real pleasure and a true sense…
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Chef
Dario Catapano
London, United Kingdom
Dario Catapano works inside the Gordon Ramsay group with the kind of steadiness that service demands. Since 2019, he has held two current posts in Greater London, England, United…
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Dario Cecchini
Panzano, Italy
## The Climb The counter at Officina della Bistecca in Panzano in Chianti, Italy, is built around inherited practice: the butcher’s work sits inside a family line, and Dario…
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Winemaker
Dario Molino
Treiso, Italy
Dario Molino works in the measured, exacting traditions of Piedmont at Agricola Molino in Treiso, Italy. The estate's focus falls on the classic varieties that define the region —…
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Winemaker
Dario Pistarà
Capolago, Switzerland
## At a Glance - Craft: wine production. - Current role: wine producer. - Company point: Castello di Cantone SA, 2019. - Place markers: Ticino and Capolago, Switzerland. Wine…
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Chef
Darrell Boles
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Executive Chef at Little Donkey in Cambridge, United States, is the title that defines Darrell Boles’s work. In 2024, StarChefs published his Ham Hock Cavatappi and listed several…
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Chef
Darryl Bell
Napa, California, United States
Darryl Bell came to Stateline Road Smokehouse in Napa in 2024 with a résumé built in kitchens where pace and precision are part of the brief. As Executive Chef and co-owner, he…
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Darryll Bell Jr.
Napa, California, United States
Darryll Bell Jr. The work there is organized around smoke, timing, seasoning, and the slow conversion of raw product into finished barbecue. ## The Climb The role of chef at…
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Dave Kopushyan
Los Angeles, California, United States
## Coming Up At The French Laundry, Dave Kopushyan worked as a professional chef in a kitchen defined by precision, discipline, and repeatable standards. Early service in that…
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Chef
David Ahn
Santa Clara, California, United States
The public record around David Ahn is concentrated rather than expansive: Chungdam in Santa Clara, Korean cuisine, Korean barbecue cooking, and Opinionated About Dining Casual…
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Chef
David Arauz
Madrid, Spain
## Career Sushi counter discipline sits at the center of David Arauz’s work: in Madrid, his control over rice, fish temperature, and balance has shaped Zuara Sushi into a…
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David Bazirgan
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
## The Path Training at Cambridge School of Culinary Arts in 1996 gave David Bazirgan a working base in precision and discipline. That schooling in Cambridge set the frame for…
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Chef
David Bouhadana
New York City, New York, United States
David Bouhadana is the head chef and co-owner of Sushi by Bou, where the counter format is treated as a craft problem under time pressure: fish, rice, sequence, and room energy…
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Chef
David Bracha
Miami, Florida, United States
## Coming Up Since 2003, David Bracha has held the chef/owner role at The River Oyster Bar in Miami, a position that has defined the restaurant’s identity through consistency…
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Winemaker
David Carruzzo
Chamoson, Switzerland
David Carruzzo’s work at Domaine de la Rameau in Chamoson is built on patience, precision, and a restrained read on place. The wines are allowed to show what the vineyard gives…
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David Chiddo
Tokyo, Japan
## The Path Executive Chef at Cicada in Tokyo, Japan, David Chiddo works in the overlap between kitchen leadership and service rhythm. The position is specific: one restaurant,…
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Winemaker
David Clouston
Blenheim, New Zealand
His path has moved through vineyard work around the world and then circled back to his native New Zealand, where that early, wide-ranging experience seems to have sharpened into a…
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Chef
David Delsart
Lyon, France
At Villa Florentine in Lyon, the kitchen voice was set by movement, repetition, and control when David Delsart became chef in 2015. The line from apprenticeship to leadership runs…
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Chef
David Drake
Taipei, Taiwan
## Career At Chez Odette in New Hope, Pennsylvania, David Drake started as a dishwasher before moving into chef roles that took him through New Jersey, Brooklyn Heights, and his…
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David Fleckinger
Vienna, Austria
In 2026, David Fleckinger stands at the center of Restaurant Amador in Vienna, Austria as its head chef, a title that does more than mark a position on a masthead. It signals the…
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Winemaker
David Forcada
Rincon De Olivedo O Las Casas, Spain
At Bodegas Forcada S.L, the work is built from family land, altitude, and a controlled hand in the cellar. The aim is not decoration but clarity: fruit, site, and restraint…
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David Guas
Arlington, Virginia, United States
## The Climb Pastry set the first terms of David Guas’s craft: precision, patience, and attention to detail. He began in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was born on June 5, 1975…
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Winemaker
David Hernando
Atauta, Spain
## The Essentials - Nationality: Spanish. - Technical director: Bodegas Atalayas de Golbán (Atauta, Spain). - Partner and co-founder of Bodegas Antídoto in Soria, Spain. Technical…
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David Holman
Warsaw, Poland
David Holman’s work at Atlantis is built on classical discipline and the habits formed in high-volume kitchens that reward consistency over flourish. His time as executive chef at…
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David Kuo
Los Angeles, California, United States
## Coming Up Technique came first in Le Cordon Bleu in Pasadena, where David Kuo had the kind of formal training that turns instinct into method. Before he was cooking under his…
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David Lagonell
London, United Kingdom
The brief at the core of David Lagonell’s work is built around heat and range: open-fire cooking, steaks, tacos, bottomless brunch, Sunday roasts, and tequila cocktails. It asks…
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Chef
David Lee
Toronto, Canada
## The Path Since 2016, plant-based cooking has been anchored at PLANTA Restaurants in Toronto and Miami, where David Lee has held the co-founder and Executive Chef role. The work…
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Winemaker
David Lenhart
Fels am Wagram, Austria
David Lenhart works at the intersection of maker, estate, and place, with each element kept in clear view: winemaker at Biowein Lenhart, in Fels am Wagram, Austria. That narrow…
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Winemaker
David Levasseur
Cuchery, France
Since 2003, David Levasseur has served as winemaker and estate head at Champagne Albert Levasseur in Cuchery, France, working in small batches and under organic methods that keep…
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Winemaker
David Millet
Saint-Andelain, France
## The Path Liceo Hotelero Yzeure gave David Millet a formal base in precision, composition, and service before the work shifted into the vineyard. That training reads less as a…
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Chef
David Mizoule
Lyon, France
David Mizoule is Executive Chef of Cafe Comptoir Abel in Lyon, France, an address that defines the work rather than serving as a stop along it. ## The Path Today, David Mizoule is…
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Winemaker
David Moreau
Santenay, France
David Moreau is the winemaker at Domaine David Moreau in Santenay, and the estate he took over from his grandfather still frames the work: lineage, inheritance, and the discipline…
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Winemaker
David Moreno
Badaran, Spain
David Moreno’s work is anchored in Family Rioja wines at Bodegas David Moreno in Badarán, Spain. The winery that bears his name is part of the craft itself: a house tied to…
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David Moret
Beaune, France
## Career Before making wine under his own label, David Moret sold winery equipment to local vignerons in Côte de Beaune, a route that put him inside the region’s working cellar…
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Winemaker
David Natali
Napa, California, United States
## The Climb Cellar work came after classroom training for David Natali, whose studies at Georgetown University, School of Foreign Service and later at University of Montpellier…
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Winemaker
David Oberkofler
Maria Bild, Austria
David Oberkofler works at Bioweinbau Oberkofler in Maria Bild within a clear organic framework. The line he gives it is direct: “For me, organic winemaking has always been the…
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Winemaker
David Pehu
Verzenay, France
## The Path Training at Burgundy gave David Pehu a working discipline built on precision rather than display. That early formation shows in an approach that favors detail,…
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Winemaker
David Rebourgeon
Pommard, France
David Rebourgeon’s work at Domaine Rebourgeon-Mure in Pommard, France is built around a simple discipline: let the cru lead, and keep the cellar from getting in the way. In close…
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Winemaker
David Reynaud
Beaumont Monteux, France
David Reynaud has owned Domaine Les Bruyères in Beaumont-Monteux, France, since 2000, and that ownership is the frame through which his work is read. The estate is the fixed…
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Winemaker
David Rossier
Leytron, Switzerland
## The Climb David Rossier works as the winemaker of Cave David Rossier in Leytron, Switzerland, a role shaped by family continuity as much as by cellar work. Born into a family…
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Winemaker
David Sampedro Gil
Elvillar, Spain
David Sampedro Gil is the winemaker of Bodegas Bhilar in Elvillar. Born and raised there, he makes wine from the same village he comes from, and his own account of the work is…
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Chef
David Skinner
Kemah, Texas, United States
On the Gulf-side edge of Kemah, the work at Ishtia treats Indigenous ingredients as a contemporary fine-dining vocabulary rather than a fixed category. Squash, corn, beans, spice,…
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Winemaker
David Tofterup
Fuengirola, Spain
The work of the cellar is where his account lands: not in abstraction, but in the practical labor of shaping fruit, season, and place into wine. When he says, “What´s not to love…
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David Viana
Aberdeen, New Jersey, United States
The craft here is heat management and finish: signature paellas classically prepared in the hearth oven until they reach a very crispy, crunchy socarrat, and Baked Madeira for…
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David Wagger
Lech, Austria
David Wagger serves as executive chef at Postblick in Lech, where the brief is Modern Austrian Alpine cuisine and the work sits between regional identity and present-day control.…
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David Wilpon
New York City, New York, United States
Co-owner at Ess-a-Bagel in New York City, David Wilpon is defined by ownership: the work of carrying a shop’s identity, continuity, and day-to-day cadence. In a trade shaped by…
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David Zaquine
New York City, New York, United States
## The Essentials The pastry reads from a French and Moroccan base, with David Zaquine using family and culture as the structure beneath the work. "The inspiration for my desserts…
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Winemaker
Davide Fregonese
Serralunga d'Alba, Italy
Wine producer at Davide Fregonese — Davide Fregonese — works from a personal axis of return, memory, and place. “I have returned home. After years away, my return became an act of…
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Chef
Davide Giova
Los Angeles, California, United States
His own account of the path is direct, almost understated, but it carries the whole arc of his culinary life: "I was passionate about it and wanted to learn about it all, learn…
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Winemaker
Davide Lorenzi
San Clemente, Italy
## Coming Up At Enio Ottaviani Winery in San Clemente, Emilia Romagna, Italy, the work runs through Rebola first. Davide Lorenzi’s remit is winemaking, but the larger job is…
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Winemaker
Davide Mozzone
Castiglione Falletto, Italy
Succession in a Barolo estate is practical work before it is biography: vineyard choices, cellar discipline, and the reading of place have to move from one set of hands to the…
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Chef
Davide Porcaccio
Miami, Florida, United States
## The Climb Today, Davide Porcaccio is chef of Dōma. It is a role that suits a cook drawn to precision, rhythm, and the quiet authority of ingredients treated with care. The…
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Davide Scabin
Rivoli, Italy
Before that role, the long run at Combal.Zero in Rivoli set the terms of Davide Scabin’s reputation: chef there from 1994 to 2020, he worked in a register tied to experimentation…
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Davide Tonetti
Trieste, Italy
## Coming Up At Ristorante Tenda Rossa, Davide Tonetti works a kitchen built on freshness, locality, and direct expression. His own brief on the food is explicit: creativity and…
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Winemaker
Davide Zoppi
Bonassola, Italy
On the Ligurian Riviera, at Cà du Ferrà Wine & Tasting in Bonassola, Italy, owner Davide Zoppi works among vines shaped by light, wind, and sea. The material is Native Ligurian…
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Dean Banks
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dean Banks’ work is built around Scottish seafood and an ingredient-led approach that keeps the product visible on the plate. At Dulse in Edinburgh, that means a direct style of…
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