Regional Finalists 2022-23

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Africa, Middle East & South Asia
Luis Angel Huamani Huerta
Qatar
just to show everything that I have learned in each country that I have traveled, worked, its food, its culture, its people, so th...
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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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Muhammad Afif Adnanta Nasution
Bahrain
I am here to day with spirit of regeneration for future and passion for food. My dish is "Reflection of nature" it is strongly rep...
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Asia
Ardy Ferguson, portrait picture
Archipelago celebration, signature dish
Ardy Ferguson
Hong Kong
My dish is a celebration of the vibrant culinary traditions of Indonesia, infused with the gastronomic influences I’ve embraced si...
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Nusita Woottidetch, portrait picture
Thai heritage, signature dish
Nusita Woottidetch
Thailand
I choose this dish because my mom used to cook this for me and now I cook it for my son. I wan to represent thai heritage dishes i...
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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
Harun Younussi, portrait picture
The shepherd's offerings, signature dish
Harun Younussi
Canada
The Shepherd offers his healthiest lambs, either for feasts or as a sacrificial meal every year by monotheists alike, in suit of A...
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Samy Benabed
Canada
This dish is an ode to a traditional Québécois meal: the rotisserie chicken. Traditionally, the chicken is served with gravy, a si...
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Stefan Armand, portrait picture
Aged Vancouver Island rockfish 4 ways with local corn and beans, signature dish
Stefan Armand
Canada
With this dish, I want my diverse immigrant family background and the fact I do not identify with one food culture, to show what c...
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Central Europe
Jacob Zuge
Veal Fillet and Bavarian Cabbage, signature dish
Jakob Züge
Germany
With this dish, I present my homeland on a plate and showcase my Bavarian/Franconian roots with typical components from pub cuisin...
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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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Thomas Beiglboeck
Germany
The dish is intended to convey an honest image of the region, the botanical garden near to the restaurant reimagining the pleasure...
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France
Antonis Avouri, portrait picture
The consequences of our actions, signature dish
Antonis Avouri
France
My dish resembles how climate change has affected the planet, both land and sea in the Mediterranean Regions. It’s a pescatarian d...
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Simone D'Alonzo, portrait picture
Quanto sei bella Roma, signature dish
Simone D'Alonzo
France
‘Quanto sei bella Roma’ is a tribute to my hometown, Rome. The title comes from a famous song about this city that for me is the m...
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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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Iberian Countries
Carla Ribe
Spain
This dish combines different flavors, textures and techniques. It's main objetive is to show the combination of duck breast with a...
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Andrè Cameirão
Portugal
Kitchen and gastronomy are my life since I was young. I move to Açores , I fell in love with the gastronomy of the region and I wa...
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Danitza Alpaca Salinas
Spain
The origin of the techniques and flavours of this dish come from the city where my surname comes from, from an emblematic family w...
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Italy
Eros Castrogiovanni, portrait picture
Cipolla alla royale, signature dish
Eros Castrogiovanni
Italy
With this dish, I would like to express the concept that the replacement of animal protein with vegetable protein, allows the dish...
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Katherine Rios
Italy
Migration and Integration Arriving in a new place is not always easy and even more so it is not easy to integrate and be accepted...
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Silvia Rozas, portrait picture
Alien meets native, signature dish
Silvia Rozas
Italy
What makes a species local, indigenous, alien, invasive, naturalized, or imported to a specific ecology ?How do species, including...
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Latin America & Caribbean
Moris Moreno
Colombia
All the ingridients in my dish come from the farm I grew up, I sowed them myself, and I prepared them using traditional and contem...
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Rodrigo Pacheco Reyes, portrait picture
ChilacayoTé, signature dish
Rodrigo Pacheco Reyes
Mexico
As a proud young chef from Mexico, I capture my roots using local ingredients, intertwining cultural traditions with global techni...
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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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Mainland of China
Hong Fei Bi, portrait picture
Hong Fei Bi, signature dish
Hong Fei Bi
China
Inspired by the first book of traditional Chinese medicine, "Huangdi Neijing," which states that food is food when eaten on an emp...
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Zi Hao Lu, portrait picture
Zi Hao Lu, signature dish
Zi Hao Lu
China
In Chinese culture, there is an old saying, "Eat what is in season," which means that the right time creates flavors, and if misse...
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Vitoria De Cia Caixeta, portrait picture
Vitoria De Cia Caixeta, signature dish
Vitoria De Cia Caixeta
China
I express the fusion between two cultures, Chinese and Italian. The dish is composed of childhood memories where every Sunday as a...
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North Europe
Helena Vallimäe, portrait picture
Farm chicken with estonian apples and kohlrabi, signature dish
Helena Vallimäe
Estonia
This dish represents how we can use different parts of one protein source and combine this with Estonian wine. I am also using lin...
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Noah Wynants, portrait picture
Dutch 'Rendang', signature dish
Noah Wynants
Netherlands
With this dish, I want to show that worldly flavors can be achieved with products from our own country or region, promoting sustai...
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Sebastian Garcia Jimenez
Faroe Islands
During my time spent at Faroe Islands I create this dish with one purpose, to make something Mexican inspired but allowing myself ...
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Pacific
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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Tatsuya Fujii
Australia
My yakitori is a unique take on the classic Japanese dish, combining traditional flavours with Italian and Australian elements and...
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Abhishek Thorat
Australia
This dish is influenced by a region of India called Kashmir. It is inspired by its rich culture, cooking style and ingredients tha...
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South-East Europe & Mediterranean
Paweł Szulżycki
Poland
By presenting this dish i would like to convince people that we chefs are not only people that stand for many hours in front of th...
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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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Gregory Kikis
Greece
Through “The story of Cod” I wanted to give a modern twist to a traditional Greek recipe and products that are a part of every tab...
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Uk
Ben Miller, portrait picture
Ode to Sam Yee, signature dish
Ben Miller
United Kingdom
Through a desire to seek out and understand culture outside of my own, I have been able discover so much about myself and the food...
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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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Ediz Niyazi Engin
United Kingdom
A Chef is someone able to forge a connection between times and who can intertwine the strings of time to create something beautifu...
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USA
Jack Stewart
My intention was to use every piece of an often-overlooked ingredient, prepare it in a variety of ways, and build depth with ferme...
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Dimosthenis Efthymiou
Food conscience and sustainability are more prevalent in our lives than ever before. It is time to take action and look for more ...
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Nicolas Lopez, portrait picture
Pork with hints of the sea, signature dish
Nicolas Lopez
United States
This dish represent my years of experience working in this industry, from a local pub or bistro, all the way to fine dining using ...
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West Europe
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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Damien Delacoste
Switzerland
My dish is an initiation, a journey through a memory, a reminiscence. One day I went with my grandfather into the forest, I was yo...
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Theo Kopp, portrait picture
Potée Lorraine: Selected piece of pork, kimchi mirabelle and pig ear, reduced pork and picon Mirabelle juice, signature dish
Theo Kopp
Luxembourg
I started my career as engineer, then 3 years ago, I choose to travel and work as a cook. My cuisine was molded by that. I discove...
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