The People · Page 93
The artisans of taste.
Chef
Eric Pansu
Tokyo, Japan
Executive Chef Eric Pansu leads Maison Paul Bocuse in Tokyo and serves as Executive Chef of Brasseries Bocuse. Across both appointments, the work is built on technique,…
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Eric Patterson
Traverse City, Michigan, United States
Eric Patterson is co-owner of The Cook’s House in Traverse City, Michigan, where the strongest recognition has come from work rooted in Northern Michigan: a 2025 James Beard…
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Winemaker
Eric Pfifferling
Tavel, France
## The Path Since 2002, Eric Pfifferling has served as winemaker at Éric Pfifferling - L'Anglore, a long run that points to consistency as a craft value. In winemaking, that kind…
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Éric Rodez
Ambonnay, France
## Career - Served as mayor of Ambonnay from 2008 to 2014. - Champagne Éric Rodez received Haute Valeur Environnementale certification in 2012. The work here moves on two fronts:…
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Eric Smith
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States
Eclectic style and a direct line on flavor define Eric Smith’s work. The throughline is not ornament, but control: sushi rolls, sashimi, and cocktails used as a shared vocabulary,…
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Eric Sze
New York City, New York, United States
Born in Taipei and Taiwanese, he turned hospitality training into a career that now runs through Manhattan and Brooklyn. ## Coming Up Eric Sze trained at New York University. Eric…
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Eric Taluy
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
In Hong Kong, at Hugo’s Hong Kong, the defining material is freshness: seasonal ingredients, authentic products, and grain-fed beef considered through the hands of Executive Chef…
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Eric Warnstedt
Waterbury, Vermont, United States
## The Climb In 2002, the sous chef post at Smokejack’s gave Eric Warnstedt a working start in the trade, and it set the terms for what followed: discipline, patience, and steady…
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Eric Zhou
Chicago, Illinois, United States
## The Essentials Kitchen buildout runs on lead times, and Eric Zhou’s note makes that plain: “The kitchen equipment takes longer time to deliver from China.” For anyone opening a…
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Winemaker
Erich Amon
Gobelsburg, Austria
## At a Glance - Role: Winemaker - Estate: BIO-Weingut Erich Amon - Location: Gobelsburg, Austria - Craft: Organic winemaking at a family estate ## Signature The signature wines…
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Winemaker
Erick De Sousa
Avize, France
## Coming Up The defining stretch of Erick De Sousa’s career was the management of Champagne De Sousa in Avize, a run that extended from 1986 to 2023. That kind of continuity is…
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Erik Englund
Portland, Oregon, United States
Erik Englund is Executive Chef at Flying Fish Company in Portland, United States, where the work is shaped by a coastal-minded sensibility and a steady commitment to sustainable…
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Winemaker
Erik Revello
La Morra, Italy
Speaking about the wider moment around him, he says, "I believe we are living in the golden age of the region." ## The Climb Erik Revello’s path has been shaped by the slow,…
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Erika Kushi
Miami Beach, Florida, United States
In a culinary world that often celebrates spectacle, her profile reads more like a study in focus: a professional identity shaped by one recognizable specialty and a place whose…
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Winemaker
Erin Green
Santa Rosa, California, United States
Raised in Sonoma County, Erin Green has built a career around blending and tasting wines, work that depends on close reading of vineyard character and the disciplined labor that…
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Erin Miller
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, Erin Miller carries with her the easy assurance of someone shaped by landscape as much as by training: the hush of…
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Winemaker
Erlande Cordeuil
Noe Les Mallets, France
## The Climb Vineyard succession in Champagne is learned through repeated cellar and field decisions, not through narrative polish. In Erlande Cordeuil’s case, that discipline is…
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Winemaker
Ermanno Accornero
Vignale Monferrato, Italy
Ermanno Accornero is the winemaker at ACCORNERO VINI in Vignale Monferrato, Italy, and his work reads like a quiet act of fidelity: to place, to fruit, and to the long patience of…
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Winemaker
Ernesto Catena
Vista Flores, Argentina
Ernesto Catena founded Alma Negra in Vista Flores, Mendoza, Argentina, in 2000, and from that first cellar work onward, he set in motion the project that would come to define his…
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Ernesto Uchimura
Los Angeles, California, United States
Born in Argentina, Ernesto Uchimura turned a chain of roles into a clear point of view in Los Angeles: progressive comfort food with a technical edge. At Plan Check, where he was…
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Winemaker
Ernő Sagmeister
Magyarkanizsa, Serbia
## The Climb A mathematics professor in Budapest gave Ernő Sagmeister a first discipline built on structure, proportion, and exact comparison. That matters in wine, where his…
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Ernz Owera
Manila, Philippines
Filipino comfort cooking depends on recognition first: sourness that reads cleanly, richness that holds its line, texture that delivers pleasure without heaviness. As Executive…
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Winemaker
Erwin Gruber
Schiltern, Austria
Fish farming at the Trautenfels fish ponds is built on water quality first: clear, cold, mountain-fed water moving through ponds and streams in Trautenfels. Erwin Gruber works…
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Chef
Esmaralda
Madikwe, South Africa
Assistant General Manager and Executive Chef at Morukuru Family Madikwe, South Africa, Esmaralda’s work is rooted in a family kitchen before it ever became tied to a title. On her…
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Winemaker
Ester Nin
Porrera, Spain
Before Clos i Terrasses in Gratallops became the address most closely tied to Ester Nin’s viticultural work, her training in enology at the University of Tarragona gave her the…
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Ethan Lim
Chicago, Illinois, United States
From a refugee camp in Thailand to the kitchen he opened in Chicago in 2015, Ethan Lim’s arc runs through study, Chicago venues, and a return to Cambodian flavor at his own…
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Ethan Stowell
Seattle, Washington, United States
He is known for Italian restaurants. ## The Climb Seattle’s dining map runs through the rooms where Ethan Stowell learned pace, discipline, and how to hold a kitchen line…
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Ethel Hoon
Lech, Austria
Ethel Hoon is the Singaporean chef-owner of Klösterle in Lech, Austria. Born in Singapore, she has made western Austria her home: “I am currently living in western Austria, in a…
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Winemaker
Etienne Bétrisey
Ayent, Switzerland
Etienne Bétrisey is the winemaker of Cave Alain & Etienne Bétrisey in Ayent, Switzerland, a role tied to a family estate working vines above the Rhône valley. His path runs…
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Etienne Borgnat
Cerbois, France
Etienne Borgnat represents the fourth generation at Domaine de la Commanderie in Quincy and Reuilly. The estate identifies him as taking over the family operation, continuing its…
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Winemaker
Etienne Calsac
Avize, France
, shaping wines that read the region through chalk, limestone and freshness. The brief is direct: make vibrant Champagne with site clarity, not cellar gloss. ## Today Before…
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Etienne Delarche
Pernand-Vergelesses, France
Etienne Delarche’s work is anchored in Burgundy, where the estate and the landscape are read through the same daily discipline. In 2005, he took over the reins of Domaine Marius…
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Etienne Simonis
Ammerschwihr, France
Etienne Simonis has held the winemaking post at Domaine Étienne Simonis in Ammerschwihr, France, since 1999, with biodynamic wines at the center of the work. The estate was…
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Etienne-Arnaud Dopff
Riquewihr, France
Etienne-Arnaud Dopff is owner of Domaine Dopff Au Moulin in Riquewihr, France, a role he has held since joining the estate in 1998. In a house history that runs deep into the…
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Winemaker
Eugen Spindler
Forst an der Weinstraße, Germany
Eugen Spindler is the chef of Eugen Spindler - Weingut Lindenhof, a title that places the name and the venue in the same line of work. In hospitality terms, the kitchen is the…
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Winemaker
Eugenio Bocchino
La Morra, Italy
Eugenio Bocchino works as winemaker at Azienda Agricola Eugenio Bocchino in La Morra, Italy, and the structure is plain on purpose: one producer, one place, one set of methods.…
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Winemaker
Eulogio Calleja
La Seca, Spain
Eulogio Calleja is Director Technical at Bodegas Naia S. L. For more than a decade, he has pursued this specialty with the kind of concentration that suggests patience, discipline…
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Winemaker
Eulogio Pomares
As Covas, Spain
He describes his family background in rural, almost custodial terms, as though the landscape itself were part of the inheritance: “It is a family that always had a very close…
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Chef
Eunjo “Jo” Park
New York City, New York, United States
## The Path The line through this career runs from the Culinary Institute of America into Daniel, Per Se, and Momofuku Ko, with each kitchen adding another layer of pressure…
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Eva Ein
Los Angeles, California, United States
Eva Ein is the ice cream chef at McConnell's Fine Ice Creams in Los Angeles. Her career has also included ownership roles at McConnell's Fine Ice Creams in Los Angeles, Stella…
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Winemaker
Eva Marianne Terkelsen
Bj Rn, Denmark
## Coming Up Training at DSH-Odense gave Eva Marianne Terkelsen’s work its formal base: social-work practice shaped by administration, contact with citizens, and the systems that…
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Evan Algorri
Los Angeles, California, United States
Evan Algorri cooks Ètra’s menu from a local register: raised in Los Angeles, he works with the city as context rather than backdrop, and that vantage shows up in the detail of his…
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Chef
Even Ramsvik
Oslo, Norway
## The Recognition It belongs to a period of work that also brought the venue the title Best Restaurant in Norway in 2012, placing its cooking at the center of national attention…
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Winemaker
Ewald Gruber
Röschitz, Austria
Cellar master at BIO Weingut Gruber Röschitz, Ewald Gruber works from a cellar principle he states plainly: “Wine needs time and space.” With Maria and Christian, he frames the…
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Winemaker
Ewald Zweytick
Ehrenhausen, Austria
## Coming Up Ripeness is the governing choice in the wines at Ewald Zweytick Wein in Ehrenhausen, Austria. Ewald Zweytick puts the line plainly: "I don't pick green grapes to get…
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Winemaker
Fabian Rajtschan
Stuttgart Feuerbach, Germany
Fabian Rajtschan works the same ground from two angles: as winemaker of 70469R! / Weinbau Fabian Rajtschan in Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany since 2011, and as owner of Weingut…
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Chef
Fabian Saalfeld
Hardenberg, Netherlands
In Arosa, Switzerland, at Artis by Tristan Brandt, Executive Chef Fabian Saalfeld works from classic French craftsmanship, Regional Swiss products, and carefully measured…
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Fabien Boinot
Poitiers, France
Fabien Boinot is chef of Les Archives in Poitiers, France. His cooking there is expressed through a luxury-brasserie frame and a short list of precise signatures: veal offal in…
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Winemaker
Fabien Duperray
La Chapelle De Guinchay, France
Fabien Duperray works across two sides of wine trade practice: making at Domaine Jules Desjourneys in Beaujolais and distributing Burgundy domaines. That dual role keeps the work…
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Winemaker
Fabien Geantet
Gevrey-Chambertin, France
## The Path The role is custodial as much as administrative: the domaine’s character is tied to its vines, its parcels, and the discipline of keeping those elements legible in the…
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Winemaker
Fabien Leperchois
Roquemaure, France
Fabien Leperchois works wine as a matter of field and cellar, with the kind of discipline that comes from reading both the vine and the wine without separating the two. At Domaine…
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Winemaker
Fabien Moreau
Chablis, France
French and trained at Dijon University, Fabien Moreau belongs to that understated school of professionals whose presence is felt as much in the cadence of their work as in any…
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Chef
Fabio Abbattista
Erbusco, Italy
The star recognizes a compact fine-dining language: few ingredients, controlled technique, and a Puglian register kept in the background rather than pushed to the front. ##…
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Winemaker
Fabio Contato
Desenzano del Garda, Italy
Fabio Contato’s public profile is closely and deliberately centered on one place: Cavaliere del Garda in Desenzano del Garda, Italy. Since 2023, he has owned the winery, and that…
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Chef
Fabio Gambirasi
Barcelona, Spain
## The Climb Training at Multiple Michelin-starred restaurants in France and Italy gave Fabio Gambirasi a foundation in kitchens where control, repetition, and exact timing are…
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Winemaker
Fabio Marazzi
Pietra De Giorgi, Italy
Fabio Marazzi is the current owner of Cantina Scuropasso in Scorzoletta, Pietra de' Giorgi, Italy. His work is tied to a family company, an experimental approach, and a personal…
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Winemaker
Fabio Mecca
Ciro Marina, Italy
Fabio Mecca has been winemaker for Baroni Capoano in Cirò Marina, Italy, since 2018. ## Today Fabio Mecca trained at Università degli Studi di Padova. Today, Fabio is consulente…
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Winemaker
Fabio Motta
Livorno, Italy
Fabio Motta’s work is anchored to a single estate in Castagneto Carducci (LI): Azienda Agricola Fabio Motta. The public record is compact, and that compactness matters here. One…
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Winemaker
Fabio Perrone
Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy
## The Climb The discipline behind Fabio Perrone’s work was formed at the Oenological school of Alba, where study and practice were treated as the same task: learning to make…
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Winemaker
Fabio Sireci
Agrigent, Italy
Fabio Sireci is the winemaker and overseer at Feudo Montoni in Cammarata, Sicily, Italy, where he has spent 30 years shaping the family winery’s voice. After studying engineering,…
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Chef
Fabio Toffolon
Andermatt, Switzerland
Fabio Toffolon has been Executive Chef at The Japanese by The Chedi Andermatt, Switzerland, since 2023. The appointment also includes The Japanese Restaurant, and his cooking is…
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Chef
Fabio Volontè
Calvi, France
Fabio Volont works across Italian and French kitchens, with executive-chef posts in Calvi and Como defining the shape of his career. In that track, La Villa Calvi and Imperialino…
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Winemaker
Fabio Zanini
Brissago, Switzerland
## Coming Up Changins gave Fabio Zanini the grounding that winemaking asks for: technique, patience, precision, and the discipline to work bottle by bottle without shortcuts. In…
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Winemaker
Fabrice Bertemès
Trepail, France
Champagne production in Trépail depends on continuity as much as intervention. At Champagne Fabrice Bertemès in Trépail, France, Fabrice Bertem has been producer since 1990 within…
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Winemaker
Fabrice Dodane
Mathenay, France
Fabrice Dodane’s work at Domaine de Saint Pierre is tied to the long discipline of estate winegrowing, where the rhythm of the property and the identity of the wines are built…
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Fabrice Le Bourdat
Paris, France
In 2015, Fabrice Le Bourdat was pastry chef at Le Bristol (Paris), in a setting where precision had to read as ease and sweetness had to be delivered with control. The work tied…
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Winemaker
Fabrice Reynaud
Arbanats, France
Since 2009, Fabrice Reynaud has served as co-director of Vignobles Reynaud in Arbanats, France, and he is also custodian of Château des Places in Arbanats, France. In a region…
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Winemaker
Fabrizio Ferrero
Santo Stefano Belbo, Italy
The title is as pared-back as a white tablecloth before the first plate arrives: one name for the chef, one name for the place. That blunt simplicity gives the entire kitchen…
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Fabrizio Ressia
Neive, Italy
Fabrizio Ressia is winemaker and producer at Azienda Agricola Ressia in Neive, Italy, a role he has held from 1997–present. His approach is anchored in vineyard-first discipline…
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Chef
Fagner Buzinhani
Lisbon, Portugal
Executive Chef at Go Juu in Lisbon, Portugal, is Fagner Buzinhani’s defining professional title, and it gives the clearest frame for his achievement. The work attached to that…
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Fang Liang
Shanghai, China
## The Climb Executive Chef work is a production craft before it is a title. At Xin Guang, Fang Liang carries that role through prep, service, and the small calls that determine…
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Winemaker and Wine Consultant
Federico Cerelli
San Casciano V P, Italy
Federico Cerelli is an Italian winemaker and wine consultant working with Bindi Sergardi and Castello di Gabbiano in Chianti Classico. He joined Castello di Gabbiano in 2011 after…
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Federico Fazzuoli
Terranuova Bracciolini, Italy
Federico Fazzuoli owns and produces wine and olive oil at Fattoria Fazzuoli in Terranuova Bracciolini, Arezzo, Italy. ## Coming Up At Fattoria Fazzuoli, Federico Fazzuoli works…
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Federico Fernandez
Los Angeles, California, United States
The route from a family kitchen to a pastry station is usually measured in repetition, not romance. For Federico Fernandez, it runs through Buenos Aires, through an Executive…
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Federico Rapali
Dublin, Ireland
Federico Rapali has been Head Pizza Chef at Little Pyg in Dublin, Ireland, since 2022. He works in pizza, a craft he originally learned in Naples, bringing that training into a…
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Winemaker
Federico Riolfo
Tortona, Italy
Federico Riolfo’s formation begins with the house he serves: Cantine Volpi in Tortona, Italy, founded in 1914 and carried forward as a multi-generational Italian wine company. He…
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Federico Sisti
Milan, Italy
Federico Sisti is co-founder and chef at Frangente in Milan. The cooking there works contemporary methods against Lombard and Emilian roots, with the kitchen moving between land…
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Winemaker
Federico Zileri Dal Verme
Bolgheri, Italy
Owner of Azienda Agricola Castello di Bolgheri, Italy, Federico Zileri Dal Verme moves through a career defined by one exacting landscape and the standards it demands. His arc…
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Felice Lo Basso
Sorengo, Switzerland
The professional record is built through service rooms and addresses rather than a single fixed territory. In Felice Lo Basso’s case, apprenticeships in Italy and abroad, work in…
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Fellipe Zanuto
São Paulo, Brazil
Fellipe Zanuto is chef of A Pizza da Mooca in São Paulo. Born and raised in Mooca, a traditional neighborhood in the eastern part of the city known for strong Italian influence,…
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Beverage Service Professional
Femi Oyediran
Charleston, South Carolina, United States
Co-owner and sommelier at Graft Wine Shop in Charleston, Femi Oyediran has built his wine career in the city where he discovered his interest in wine while working at Charleston…
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Winemaker
Ferdinand Mayr
Senftenberg, Austria
Managing Partner and CEO of Mayr in Mauerstetten, Germany, Ferdinand Mayr works in Austrian wine with a background shaped by discipline rather than reinvention. The link between…
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Winemaker
Ferdinand Ruelle-Dudel
Avize, France
## Coming Up Ferdinand Ruelle-Dudel arrived at Champagne Franck Bonville in Avize, France, with a perspective shaped far from the chalky lanes and cellar cool of Champagne. Before…
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Bocuse d'Or laureate
Ferdy Debecker
Bornem, Belgium
That early formation still reads in the kitchen: quiet discipline, exact timing, and a clear sense of what belongs on the menu. White asparagus sits at the center of Ferdy…
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Chef
Fernando Canales
Ibiza, Spain
He traces his cooking life back to childhood and to the School of Hospitality Leioa, remembering the restless energy before the discipline arrived: "I was very bad at school,…
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Winemaker
Fernando Ciappi
San Gimignano, Italy
Fernando Ciappi’s work at Casa alle Vacche in San Gimignano, Italy, sits at the point where agronomy becomes the operating system of a property. As Agronomic Manager, he works…
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Winemaker
Fernando Mora MW
Saragossa, Spain
Fernando Mora Mora is a winemaker and founder of Bodegas Frontonio. He became a Master of Wine in 2017. ## The Path Early in their career, Fernando worked as winemaker at Bodegas…
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Fernando Remírez de Ganuza
Samaniego Alava, Spain
He came to wine not from the cellar first, but from the terrain around it: after two decades spent buying and selling vineyards through the 1970s and 1980s, he brought to the…
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Chef
Fernando Rivarola
Salta, Argentina
## Coming Up Since 2008, El Baqueano has been the main site for Fernando Rivarola’s work as chef-owner: a kitchen where Argentine ingredients, regional sourcing, and a…
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Chef
Fernando Ruiz
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
Fernando Ruiz became owner and head chef of Escondido in Santa Fe, United States, in 2024, carrying a formation that runs through culinary school, completed through 1999, and the…
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Winemaker
Ferruccio Deiana
Settimo San Pietro, Italy
Ferruccio Deiana founded Azienda Vitivinicola Ferruccio Deiana in Settimo San Pietro in 1990. ## Today Formal study at Scuola Enologica di Conegliano (Treviso) (1969) gave…
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Winemaker
Fidel Fernandez
Villabuena Alava, Spain
Technical director at Bodegas Luis Cañas in Villabuena de Álava, Spain, Fidel Fernandez is a winemaker tied to the Cañas family’s Rioja Alavesa cellar. He has been making wines…
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Winemaker
Filip Baraka
Sibenik, Croatia
Filip Baraka is the owner and winemaker of Baraka Winery in Šibenik, Croatia, part of Dalmatia. His work is defined by one stated aim: “Our underlying philosophy for our wines is…
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Winemaker
Filipa Pato
Anadia, Portugal
Filipa Pato works the vineyard and cellar at Filipa Pato & William Wouters in Óis do Bairro, Bairrada, Portugal, with a discipline built around simplicity rather than…
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Chef
Filipe Rodrigues
Lisbon, Portugal
Filipe Rodrigues was Executive Head Chef at Sea Me - Peixaria Moderna in Lisbon, a role that sits neatly at the center of a career shaped by the Atlantic and by the discipline of…
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Chef
Filipe Silvestre
Missillac, France
## The Path Seasonal French brasserie cooking anchors the kitchen, with the estate’s permaculture vegetable garden setting the pace. In Filipe Silvestre’s hands, the style stays…
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Winemaker
Filippo Baccalaro
Sambuca Di Sicilia, Italy
Filippo Baccalaro is the winemaker and technical director of Cantine Cellaro in Sambuca di Sicilia, Italy. A native of Piedmont, he has also worked as chief winemaker at Farnese…
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Filippo Butussi
Corno Di Rosazzo, Italy
Filippo Butussi is titolare of Butussi in Corno di Rosazzo, Italy, and his work is anchored in Ramato and skin-contact Pinot Grigio, two expressions that speak to a place he…
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Winemaker
Filippo Chia
Montalcino, Italy
Filippo Chia comes into view not as a name attached to a string of far-flung posts, but as someone formed by a place and by the slow, communal intelligence of wine country. His…
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Winemaker
Filippo Filippi
Soave, Italy
Filippo Filippi ## The Path Since 2003, Cantina Filippi has been under the working control of Filippo Filippi as both winemaker and owner, a combination that keeps craft and…
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