Regional Finalists 2022-23

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Africa, Middle East & South Asia
Mirsat Yilmaz
United Arab Emirates
The dish itself express completely south eastern turkish cuisine where the people eats lamb, mix spices and local carbs such as ba...
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Shehab Medhat
Egypt
Without dreams we reach nothing, Without love we feel nothing In order to reach your dream, you need determination, discipline,...
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Monaheng Moloinyane, portrait picture
Libby's pumpkin, signature dish
Monaheng Moloinyane
South Africa
This dish is an extension of who I am. It shows how I think about food. The flavours are more-ish, there is a balance of textures ...
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Asia
Jiwoo Lee
KOREA DEM. REPUBLIC OF
I deconstructed Korean traditional dish 'Sinsello'.I tried to improve the limitations of traditional cooking methods by introducin...
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Xu Yu Chan
Singapore
My favorite childhood dish is Assam Laksa. To me, the beauty of this dish is the combination of flaky fish melding together with t...
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Ai Ichinose, portrait picture
Fusion of Japanese and French cooking traditions and "Hopes For the future of food", signature dish
Ai Ichinose
Japan
"Miso-marinated" Omi beef and "heshiko," aged fish, have a history of hundreds of years in my hometown. I added the traditional Fr...
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Canada
Ben Miller
Canada
Vegan food, through methodology and expertise, belongs on the world stage. Vegetables can be a complete substitute for any animal ...
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Anthony Vien, portrait picture
Quail stuffed with black walnut and foie gras, signature dish
Anthony Vien
Canada
I want to pay tribute to our forests and also to our ancestors who lived there using ancestral cooking methods such as crust bakin...
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Carmen Holtby
Canada
This dish only uses sustainable ingredients that are locally available in the winter months. When most restaurants are relying on ...
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Central Europe
Stefan Barca
Germany
This dish is entirely inspired by general and global necessity for #change. Where everyone has to give at least a minimum effort t...
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Mary Anne Peñaloza Villafuerte
Germany
With my dish I wanted to share my roots, the ingredients that I took for it are using daily in my country, and they are not expens...
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Patrick Landerer, portrait picture
Tyrolean Char two ways, signature dish
Patrick Landerer
Austria
The Char is a fish which lives directly in our alpine lakes in Ladis. So the main ingredient stands for my home town. The char is ...
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France
Joseph Doverman
Whiskey loosens the beefs tongue
Joseph Doverman
France
This dish for me represents Irish culture married with classical french techniques,as an Irish chef in France it's something that'...
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Aurelien Duvacher
France
I would like to present this dish because it is the first dish I have offered in a starred restaurant. It is close to my heart bec...
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Pauline Fleury, portrait picture
Between mussels and lapi, signature dish
Pauline Fleury
France
I would like to express my technique and all the skills I have learnt. I've travelled a lot but I'm still connected to Brittany, m...
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Iberian Countries
Artur Gomes
Portugal
Sustainability is a word lost in intentions. We believe that to be really sustainable we can’t only focus on our restaurant, inste...
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Adriana Coromoto Allepuz Pelegrina
Spain
The dish is a representation of my origins, I don't have a Spanish culinary tradition because my mother was born in Venezuela, and...
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Loris Falzone, portrait picture
Differente bolognese di lepre, signature dish
Loris Falzone
Spain
With my signature dish I would like to try to tell you judges my story, from my Sicilian origins and what I have learnt these past...
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Italy
Davide Modesti
Italy
This is a vegetarian reinterpretation of a very famous and loved dish of my territory which is beef in oil. I believe that vegeta...
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Elisa Frutti, portrait picture
(R)evolution, signature dish
Elisa Frutti
Italy
Growing up in the province of Bergamo with my grandmothers, who were born and raised during the war, they always had the philosoph...
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Edoardo Tizzanini, portrait picture
An artichoke heart, signature dish
Edoardo Tizzanini
Italy
The dish is the result of a creative process that gives new life to discarded glass fragments, reassembled in a symphony of transp...
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Latin America & Caribbean
Marcella Falco Amato, portrait picture
Hot or Not?, signature dish
Marcella Falco Amato
Brazil
My dish was inspired by acarajé, a traditional street food from the Brazilian Northeast. The message I want to convey is the symbo...
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Enrique Fajardo, portrait picture
Dodua nabsaa, signature dish
Enrique Fajardo
Panama
Panamanian cuisine is a fusion of indigenous, African, Spanish and Asian influences. The Afro-descendant cultures, especially in s...
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Cristina Hanhausen
Mexico
Through this dish I express my trajectory and the way I created my personality in the kitchen. It has elements from different coun...
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Mainland of China
Ya Min Liu, portrait picture
Ya Min Liu, signature dish
Ya Min Liu
China
For me, the meat of the turbot fish is tender and not fishy, and it often appears on every household's dining table. The common co...
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Min Zhou
China
There are many ways to cook chicken in Guangzhou, and as the saying goes: “It is not a feast if you don’t have chicken”. This dish...
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Lili Zhong
China
I advocate, “to make full use of all things and sustainable ingredients." I selected the specialty ingredient "Yanchi Tan Sheep...
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North Europe
Frank Imperial
Ireland
I would like to just honestly share my idea for this competition. I understand that not everyone that applies will participate how...
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Niko Tähti
Finland
I'm from Lapland, where reindeer is a big part of the culture. With my signature dish, I want to show how diverse and wonderful me...
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Lucas Nielsen, portrait picture
Up for a change?, signature dish
Lucas Nielsen
Denmark
Denmark is the number one country of producing meat averaging 334 kg per person per year. However, as Denmark increasingly focuses...
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Pacific
Simon Ming
Australia
I was born and raised in Sichuan, China. With my professional training from Le Cordon Bleu in Australia, I found Australia can be ...
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Robin Wagner
Australia
My passion and mindset when creating new dishes is to create something remarkable, to accept the challenge and always being out of...
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Leidy Carolina Maldonado Ramirez
Australia
This salad is very popular Colombian salad on the Atlantic coast in and we find it with the name clown salad, alluding its name to...
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South-East Europe & Mediterranean
Rotem Dolev, portrait picture
Blue crab variations, signature dish
Rotem Dolev
Israel
The dish is an ode to my hometown Acre, a mixed city of Jews & Arabs, located by the Sea. I Combine haute cooking techniques a...
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Luis Estrella, portrait picture
Pato, del viejo al nuevo mundo (Duck, from Old to New World), signature dish
Luis Estrella
Malta
Influence of different cuisines from where I learned becoming French and Spanish my biggest influence, without leaving aside the i...
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Mojmir Marko Šiftar
Slovenia
In a world of abundance, we need to look at a more nursing future. Sourcing ingredients has become paralysing for our planet. Due ...
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Uk
Swann Auffray
United Kingdom
With this dish, I would like to invite customers to travel into the summer season and beautiful products we can find in Suffolk, t...
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Marcus Clayton
United Kingdom
This is the dish that I first wrote down 4 years ago when I was planning to do my first ever pop up, which unfortunatelly for one ...
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Joshua Wilde
United Kingdom
I want to showcase everything i have learnt as a chef so far. I think doing a classical dish like this is unique and modern and re...
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USA
Adrien Calmels, portrait picture
Summer in Oregon, signature dish
Adrien Calmels
United States
Summer in Oregon showcases the region's bounty and the resilience of its people. Inspired by my grandfather's farm, I emphasize pa...
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Daniel Garwood
This dish is a story and reflection of my life as a chef; Typically Banchan (Korean side dish) is a variety of small dishes accom...
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Huy Hoang
The Vietnam Cookery Culture is not simply the France and China Cuisine, but it is the fusion between those Big Two Cordon Bleu tha...
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West Europe
Egbert Meseure
Belgium
When I started to create this dish a lot of people told me not to do it because it contains too much work. So this explains my st...
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Antoine Guilmot, portrait picture
100% vegetable ravioli of celery root, signature dish
Antoine Guilmot
Belgium
Through this vegetable dish, the idea is to show that a simple product can become a complex and flavorful dish on its own. You can...
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Davide Calabrese, portrait picture
Davide Calabrese
Luxembourg
I was inspired by the future of global nutrition: I asked myself a simple question. Where is humanity going? In terms of evolution...
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