The People · Page 91
The artisans of taste.
Winemaker
Dean Hewitson
Nuriootpa, Australia
Dean Hewitson’s work sits inside the long, practical arc of Barossa Valley winegrowing: ownership, cellar discipline, and the patience required to keep a house style intact over…
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Winemaker
Dean Shaw
Cromwell, New Zealand
## Coming Up At Domaine Thomson in Central Otago, New Zealand, Dean Shaw works in a winemaking style built on patience, precision and close reading of detail. Pinot Noir sits at…
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Chef, Holy Basil
Deau Arpapornnopparat
Los Angeles, California, United States
The work is built from experience and from the food she wants to eat: “It's kind of a mix of everything, of my experience.” In Deau Arpapornnopparat’s hands, the plate reads as…
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Winemaker
Debora Greco
San Cataldo, Italy
## Coming Up Early work as a vigneron at Baglio Bonsignore in Naro (AG), Italy, gave Debora Greco a first ground-level education in vineyard discipline. The role sits at the start…
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Winemaker
Debora Greco; Tonino Guzzo
San Cataldo, Italy
Winemaking at Baglio Bonsignore is shaped by place as much as by process. In San Cataldo, Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy, Tonino Guzzo works in a setting where the estate’s pace…
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Chef
Deborah VanTrece
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
## The Climb Modern soul food is the working grammar of Deborah VanTrece at Twisted Soul Cookhouse & Pours in Atlanta. The plates carry memory without freezing it in place, which…
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Chef
Dedet de la Fuente
Manilla, Philippines
## The Climb Training at Reggie Aspiras gave Dedet de la Fuente a formal base before the work moved into the lechon house format of Pepita’s Kitchen in Manila, Philippines. As…
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Chef
Dee Rettali
London, United Kingdom
Dee Rettali founded and co-owns Fortitude Bakehouse in London, a role she has held since 2018. Her own account keeps the line plain: “I had wonderful training and it has been my…
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Chef
Delaney Oyster House: Will Fincher
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
## Career Will Fincher’s path runs through menu development, line-level cooking, and chef roles across a tight set of kitchens. He trained at Metropolitan State University of…
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Winemaker
Delphine Boulard
Faverolles Et Coemy, France
Since 2009, Delphine Boulard has worked as winemaker at Champagne Francis Boulard & Fille in Faverolles Et Coemy. The role sits inside a family line of Champagne winegrowers that…
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Owner and Winemaker
Delphine Brulez
Noe Les Mallets, France
Delphine Brulez describes a fascination with living systems: "Biology has always fascinated me. Understanding how nature creates a living being from a few small cells." ## At a…
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Winemaker
Delphine Morel
Chardonne, Switzerland
## Coming Up Commercial work at Nestlé gave Delphine Morel a different side of the trade before she moved into the cellar. Since 2020, she has been winemaker at Cave Morel in…
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Winemaker
Delphine Vesselle-LeMaire
Bouzy, France
Her work is built on continuity: a family line maintained with care, an estate worked with precision, and wines drawn only from the 17 hectares cultivated by Delphine…
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Chef
Deng Huadong
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
## The Climb Deng Huadong’s early kitchen record runs through Chengdu and Shanghai: a small catering company in Chengdu Hotel’s Rong Paradise in Chengdu, Shanghai Sheraton in…
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Winemaker, Domaine Denis Bachelet
Denis Bachelet
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
## Early Years Continuity is a working condition in Burgundy, not a decorative biographical frame. In Denis Bachelet’s case, the record is spare: by 1982, he was in place as…
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Head Chef
Denis Chlusov
Prague, Czech Republic
Denis Chlusov is the head chef of DANU Restaurant & Wine Cellar in Prague, where he leads a modern Czech and Central European kitchen focused on local ingredients, careful…
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Winemaker
Denis Dubourdieu Domaines
Barsac, France
Barsac, France, gives this work its first material: place before résumé, estate before ornament. In a region where the landscape itself seems to write the opening line, Denis…
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Winemaker
Dennis Hill
Healdsburg, California, United States
He grew up on a prune and apple farm in the middle-reach of the Russian River Valley with his parents and two brothers. ## Coming Up Early in his career, the foundation for Dennis…
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Chef
Dennis Jong
Bussum, Netherlands
Dennis Jong is the chef of Soigné in Bussum, Netherlands, where his cooking is defined as market cuisine with modern influences. A former senior sous chef of La Rive, he has built…
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Chef
Dennis Leary
San Francisco, California, United States
Dennis Leary has built his work around kitchen clarity: direct, practical, and stripped of extra gesture. A Boston native, he stays linked to the corned beef sandwich and to a…
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Chef
Dennis Ngo
New York City, New York, United States
Dennis Ngo owns Di An Di in New York City, where the restaurant’s work is tied closely to Greenpoint’s neighborhood fabric. The standard he has described is not separation from…
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Derek Radcliffe
Bernard, Maine, United States
## The Path Today, Derek Radcliffe moves through his work with the sort of calm assurance that tends to come only from experience. At Thurston’s Lobster Pound, where he serves as…
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Chef
Derek Wagner
Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Before Derek Wagner took over as chef/owner of Nicks on Broadway in Providence, the foundation was already in place at Johnson & Wales University and in the daily repetition of a…
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Master Sommelier
Desmond Echavarrie
Napa, California, United States
As CEO & Owner of Scale Wine Group in St. Helena, California, Desmond Echavarrie works in the trade lane between boutique wine producers and a curated national portfolio. The…
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Winemaker
Diana Lenzi
Quercegrossa, Italy
Born and raised in Rome, Diana Lenzi brought an urban point of view to work that later took root in the Tuscan countryside. Training at Scuole del Gambero Rosso gave her the…
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Winemaker
Diane de Puymorin
Saint Gilles, France
After leaving a corporate career in Paris to found a wine estate in southern France, Diane de Puymorin has built her reputation in Costières de Nîmes through a method defined by…
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Winemaker
Diane Holding
Waipara, New Zealand
## The Path Stewardship, management and advocacy sit behind Diane Holding’s work at Fancrest Estate in Waipara, Canterbury, New Zealand. Becoming owner of the estate in 2002…
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Winemaker
Diane Losfelt Engarran
Pignan, France
Diane Losfelt Engarran works as vigneron, a role that sits at the heart of both craft and place, where the rhythms of the vineyard, the cellar, and the broader estate are all part…
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Chef
Dianna Daoheung
New York City, New York, United States
Dianna Daoheung is the Co-Founder of Black Seed Bagels in New York City, a role that has helped define one of the city’s most distinctive bagel stories. Her contribution is…
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Winemaker
Didier Barral
Cabrerolles, France
Didier Barral’s work at Domaine Léon Barral in Cabrerolles, Languedoc, France is built around red wine, with estate-bottling and wider commercial release as the two practical ends…
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Winemaker
Didier Belondrade
Seca, Spain
Didier Belondrade is the owner of Belondrade in La Seca, Spain, and the French founder behind its 1994 start in Rueda. Born in Montauban, France, he built a career around a single…
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Winemaker
Didier Charton-Vachet
Saint Vallerin, France
Didier Charton-Vachet is the winery owner and producer at Domaine Didier Charton-Vachet in Bourgogne, France, where the estate is not merely a workplace but the fixed point around…
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Winemaker
Didier Chevauchet
Moussy, France
## The Path The role of gérant at Champagne Pinot-Chevauchet in Moussy, France, is built on estate management, cellar oversight, and the discipline needed to keep production…
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Chef
Didier Desert
Paris, France
## Coming Up Sciences Po and ESSEC gave Didier Desert a foundation in structure, judgment, and exactness, and those traits carry through the roles that define his work. The…
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Didier Fischer
Satigny, Switzerland
Didier Fischer is a viticulturist and cellar master at Domaine des Trois Étoiles in Peissy-Satigny, Geneva. He works with Michel Tuor on the organic estate's vineyard and cellar…
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Winemaker
Didier Latour
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France
Didier Latour is cellar master at Domaine Moulin Tacussel in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France, and he also works there as winemaker. His career centers on the same estate, where both…
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Winemaker
Didier Negron
Châteauneuf-du-Pape, France
## Coming Up At Domaine Roger Sabon in Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Didier Negron’s work sits inside the cadence of the appellation itself: the wines are shaped by what the estate and…
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Chef
Diego Ãlvarez
València, Spain
Diego Álvarez is identified here by name. Beyond that, the approved facts include no role or venue. ## At a Glance - Role: Omitted from the approved facts - Venue: Omitted from…
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Chef
Diego Argoti
Los Angeles, California, United States
## The Climb Line cooking in Los Angeles shaped Diego Argoti through a sequence of kitchens that demand speed, control, and attention to the pass. At Chi Spacca in Los Angeles and…
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Winemaker
Diego Conterno
Monforte d'Alba, Italy
## The Path Wine work here is built on school discipline and cellar repetition. Diego Conterno trained at Umberto 1 Enological School, then moved into co-founding Conterno-Fantino…
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Winemaker
Diego Fernández Pons
Enguera, Spain
## The Path At Polytechnic University of Valencia, Diego Fernández Pons built the technical base that later fed a practice centered on Valencian wines. That grounding shows up in…
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Chef
Diego Hernandez-Baquedano
Tulum, Mexico
## The Path Kitchen formation came first through technical schooling: at Tijuana's Culinary Art School, Diego Hernandez-Baquedano trained in the repetition, sequencing, and…
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Chef
Diego López
Lalín, Spain
Diego López is the owner and chef of Restaurante La Molinera in Pontevedra, Spain, a role shaped by years of disciplined training, kitchen travel, and a close connection to the…
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Winemaker
Diego Magaña Tejero
Barillas Navarra, Spain
Winemaker at Bodegas Viña Magaña in Spain, Diego Magaña Tejero is a Spanish producer born in Tudela, Navarra, Spain. He puts it plainly: "I am Navarrese, from Tudela." His career…
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Winemaker
Diego Mathier
Salgesch, Switzerland
Diego Mathier is the winemaker at Adrian & Diego Mathier Nouveau Salquenen in Salgesch, Switzerland, a role that suits the economy of his story: concentrated, rooted, unmistakably…
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Winemaker
Diego Morra
Verduno, Italy
Diego Morra is the owner and winemaker at Diego Morra in Verduno, Piemonte, Italy, and the work is defined by continuity rather than display. The label carries his name because…
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Chef
Diego Oka
Miami, Florida, United States
Diego Oka has been Executive Chef at La Mar by Gastón Acurio in Miami, United States, since 2014. ## Coming Up Early in their career, Diego worked as intern at Astrid & Gaston in…
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Winemaker
Diego Pozzobon
Volpago Del Montello, Italy
Diego Pozzobon is co-overseer of Case Paolin, the title that defines his place in the family winery. The work behind it is measured in vineyard decisions: organic management,…
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Winemaker
Diego Pressenda
Monforte d'Alba, Italy
The arrangement is direct: the same name sits on the door and in the kitchen, so the role has to carry the meaning. In Diego Pressenda’s case, that means authorship is declared…
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Chef
Diego Telles
Guatemala City, Guatemala
Diego Telles is owner and Executive Chef of Flor de Lis in Guatemala City. ## Coming Up Ownership and the pass in the kitchen sit together at Flor de Lis, where Diego Telles holds…
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Winemaker
Dimitri Engel
Saint-Blaise, Switzerland
Dimitri Engel is a vigneron and wine merchant at Engel Vins in Saint-Blaise, and the double title is the point. The work spans both production and trade under one name, tying the…
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Founder
Dionisio Ruiz Ijalba
Logroño, Spain
## Coming Up Work with land often starts before agriculture. Early in his career, Dionisio Ruiz Ijalba worked as a gravel business owner at Unnamed gravel business, a trade built…
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Dipnah Anand
London, United Kingdom
Dipnah Anand is culinary director at Brilliant Restaurant in Southall, London, United Kingdom, and her work today sits confidently inside the Brilliant name, where kitchen…
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Chef
Dirk Brendel
Duisburg, Germany
## The Climb The early work was line-cook discipline: repetition, timing, and the ability to keep standards steady under pressure. Dirk Brendel started at Roberts Restaurant in…
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Winemaker
Dirk Herdner
Heppenheim, Germany
## The Climb Bergsträsser Winzer eG in Heppenheim, Germany places Dirk Herdner in the board structure, where the work is less about public-facing style than the technical and…
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Chef
DJ Flores
Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
DJ Flores has been chef and owner of Milpa in Las Vegas since 2021, and the restaurant’s work reaches back into earlier kitchen discipline: line shifts, pastry shifts, and time in…
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Chef
Doğukan Kaya
Istanbul, Turkey
Modern MediterrAsian cooking at Sakhalin Istanbul is defined here by the meeting of Mediterranean freshness and Asian precision, with Doğukan Kaya holding the Head Chef role in…
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Winemaker
Domingos Alves de Sousa
Santa Marta De Penaguiao, Portugal
Domingos Alves de Sousa is the producer of Alves de Sousa in Santa Marta de Penaguião, a name tied to the measured work of Douro winemaking and the patient accumulation of…
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Chef
Dominik Sato
Andermatt, Switzerland
Dominik Sato is Executive Chef — The Japanese by The Chedi Andermatt (Andermatt, Switzerland) (May–present). His cooking is Japanese-inspired, built around first-class, modern…
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Winemaker
Dominik Schweizer
Vogtsburg Burkheim, Germany
In Baden, Germany, the material at hand is not one grape or one finish, but a set of contrasts: green and ripe, crisp and extract-rich, stillness and sparkle. At Burkheimer Winzer…
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Winemaker
Dominique Aymon
Anzere, Switzerland
Dominique Aymon is the winemaker at Cave Aymon Dominique in Anzère, Switzerland. The work is tied to a specific cellar and a specific alpine address, also recorded under Cave…
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Winemaker
Dominique Babe
Avize, France
Since 2013, the working structure of Champagne governance has included the role of associé indéfiniment responsable at BABE-LAMOUR in Le Mesnil-sur-Oger, France, held by French…
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Winemaker
Dominique Barbou
Oisly, France
Dominique Barbou works the vineyard through Sauvignon Blanc at Domaine des Corbillières in Oisly, France, with the estate shaping his practice from the start. Since 1989, when he…
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Winemaker
Dominique Ferret
Gondrin, France
On the clay and gravel of Domaine Guillaman in Gondrin, the work runs to a measured pace. Family-owned in Gascony, the estate is handled with practical attention in the vineyard…
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Winemaker
Dominique Forget
Villenave D Ornon Cedex, France
Dominique Forget became General Manager of Château Couhins in Villenave d'Ornon Cedex, France, in 1999. His own shorthand for origin is vivid: “I was born with a bunch of Ugni…
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Chef
Dominique Galla
Cannes, France
Chef de cuisine at Plage Ondine in Cannes, France, Dominique Galla carries a Côte d’Azur kitchen story from Grasse in 2023 to two Cannes addresses now tied to his cooking. The…
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Winemaker
Dominique Gallois
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
At Domaine Dominique Gallois in Gevrey-Chambertin, Burgundy, France, the work is built on patience, precision, and a disciplined reading of place. Dominique Gallois grows the…
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Winemaker
Dominique Hebrard
Francs, France
His career is a sequence of ownership, board, founding, and consulting roles across the Place de Bordeaux, Saint-Émilion, Lebanon, and China. ## Today Early in Dominique Hebrard’s…
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Chef
Dominique Maës
Bourron-Marlotte, France
Chef de cuisine at Les Prémices in Bourron-Marlotte, France, Dominique Maës is defined by a single address and a concentrated body of work. The craft here is one of continuity:…
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Winemaker
Dominique Maigre
Bernex Ge, Switzerland
## The Climb Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Zürich (EPFZ) gave Dominique Maigre a technical foundation that reads as method before romance: structure, sequence, and exactitude.…
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Chef
Dominique Mitais
New York City, New York, United States
Kitchen leadership in a waterfront restaurant is a working discipline: staffing, pacing, standards, and food that can hold under service without losing its line. At Hudson Water…
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Chef
Dominique Persoone
Bruges, Belgium
Chocolatier Dominique Persoone built his reputation through one house: The Chocolate Line in Bruges, Belgium. Since 1992, his work has stayed centered on chocolate, with the…
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Winemaker
Dominique Ressès
Parnac, France
In Parnac, France, at Château La Caminade, Cahors is built from Malbec: a dark, structured style shaped by grape selection, farming choices, and a family line that reaches back…
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Winemaker
Dominique Roger
Bué, France
Dominique Roger is proprietor of Domaine du Carrou in Bué, France, and the work is built around a single address, a single place, and a single role. That kind of narrow focus is…
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Winemaker
Dominique Roy-Jacquelin
Pommard, France
Dominique Roy-Jacquelin holds the title of chef of Domaine Dominique Roy-Jacquelin, a naming that leaves no gap between the person and the place. The role is not decorative; it is…
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Don Pham
New York City, New York, United States
Don Pham is chef and owner of Sushi Ishikawa in New York City, the title that defines his work today. Vietnamese-born, he came to the city and, over time, made his way through a…
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Chef
Doña Julia Bombin
Madrid, Spain
The title names a life bound to one bar and one kitchen, put plainly in her words: “My life began at Los Asturianos and it will end here.” ## At a Glance - She cooked at…
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Chef
Donald Hawk
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Donald Hawk’s path to the kitchen at Valentine in Phoenix, Arizona, reads less like a straight line than a patient accumulation of heat, discipline, and memory. Born in Korea, he…
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Winemaker
Donatella Cinelli Colombini
Montalcino, Italy
## Coming Up Wine production sits at the center of Donatella Cinelli Colombini’s work, with public roles built around it rather than apart from it. Born in Tuscany, Italy, she…
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Winemaker
Donato Lanati
Quargnento, Italy
## Coming Up Donato Lanati began this chapter of his career in 2020, stepping into Cellagrande as a consulting winemaker and wine expert. In a field where timing, judgment, and…
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Winemaker
Đorđe Bikicki
Banostor, Serbia
Đorđe Bikicki, founder and owner of Bikicki Winery in Sremski, Serbia, was formed first by a family plot of vines in Fruška Gora. The handoff came in 2013, when he took over…
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Winemaker
Dorina Lindemann
Montemor-o-Novo, Portugal
Dorina Lindemann’s profile is built on study and stewardship: the kind that makes technical training usable in the vineyard and durable over time. In 1993, she studied at the…
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Chef
Doug Adams
Portland, Oregon, United States
The grilled scallop tostada at Bullard in Portland is the clearest read on Doug Adams’s cooking: the first menu item, built from flavors he knew as a child, and plated with a…
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Chef
Doug Brixton
New York City, New York, United States
From growing up in California to a stage at La Maison Troisgros in Roanne, France, Doug Brixton’s route has moved through exacting rooms, a leadership post at Eleven Madison Park,…
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Chef
Doug Quint
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path Big Gay Ice Cream was co-founded by Doug Quint in New York City in 2011, with the work centered on retail access as much as product demand. The shop gave locals…
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Chef
Douglas Katz
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
## Coming Up Formal training at the Culinary Institute of America sits at the start of Douglas Katz’s working method: a kitchen discipline built through repetition, long hours,…
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Chef
Douglas King
Calgary, Canada
Douglas King is Executive Chef of Pigeonhole in Calgary, where the kitchen’s Modern Canadian small plates balance polish and warmth, precision and a sense of place. His path runs…
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Restaurateur
Douglass Williams
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Douglass Williams is chef/owner of MIDA in Boston and APIZZA in Boston. His own line for the work is direct: “I believe the world can come together over a delicious bowl of…
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Chef
Drago Cvitanovich
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Co-founder of Drago’s Seafood Restaurant in New Orleans is the title that carries Drago Cvitanovich’s name. He held that role until 2017, and the work behind it was concrete: a…
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Cocktail Service Professional
Dre Levon
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Dre Levon is Bar Director at Clavel in Baltimore, United States, where he has worked since 2016. In a city with no shortage of personality, Levon’s work has found its own quiet…
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Chef
Drew Anderson
Chandler, Arizona, United States
## The Path Arizona kitchens gave Drew Anderson a staged education: first in precision, then in pace, then in responsibility. At F&B in Scottsdale, Arizona, from 2019, working…
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Chef
Drew Bryan
Germantown, Tennessee, United States
Drew Bryan is the chef of Blue Honey Bistro in Germantown, Tennessee, where he is also co-owner. He trained at the French Culinary Institute. The résumé is compact, but the…
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Winemaker
Duncan Arnot Meyers
Healdsberg, California, United States
Duncan Arnot Meyers has built his reputation through one long line of work at Arnot-Roberts Winery in Healdsburg, United States, where he has been cofounder and winemaker since…
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Winemaker
Duncan Ross
Lockport, New York, United States
Duncan Ross is co-owner and winemaker at Arrowhead Spring Vineyards in Lockport, New York, within the Niagara Escarpment region. He helped open the vineyard in February 2008, and…
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Dylan Burrows
Mount Maunganui, New Zealand
Dylan Burrows holds the Executive Chef role at Fife Lane in Mount Maunganui, and the position reads as one built on control, timing, and consistency. At kitchen level, that means…
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Chef
Dylan Watson-Brawn
Berlin, Germany
The format did much of the work: a daily changing tasting menu, a nine-seat counter, and more than 30 bite-sized courses built around produce at its peak. In Dylan Watson-Brawn’s…
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Chef
Ebbe Vollmer
Zell am See, Austria
The Tampa work is organized around a narrow tasting-menu brief: Scandinavian cuisine carried through a Swedish point of view, with clarity given priority over display. In Ebbe…
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Chef
Ed Baines
London, United Kingdom
"The trick to this restaurant and the company motto is everything for everyone." For Ed Baines, chef and co-owner of Randall & Aubin in London, that belief sits close to the…
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Chef
Ed Kenney
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
## The Path Ed Kenney’s career has the kind of shape that feels less like a straight line than a carefully tended table: each stop adding texture, each role deepening the sense of…
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Chef
Ed Szymanski
New York City, New York, United States
## Coming Up Ed Szymanski trained at London School of Economics, a detail that feels almost slyly elegant given the exacting, hands-on world he would later make his own in New…
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