Regional Finalists 2022-23

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Africa, Middle East & South Asia
Chiara Romualdi, portrait picture
My memory, signature dish
Chiara Romualdi
United Arab Emirates
This dish comes from a memory from my chilhood:''anatra all'arancia'' (orange duck) from my grandmother, she's the one that made m...
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Ellah Maepa
South Africa
The power of flavor in simplicity with my love for fusion. Throughout my journey as a chef, I have never really appreciated my own...
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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
Stefan de Graaf, portrait picture
Where the flavors of heritage meet the spices of the present, signature dish
Stefan de Graaf
Indonesia
I sought to blend the flavors of Balinese cuisine with the memories of my roots in Tholen, a small village in the Netherlands, Zee...
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William Yee
Singapore
Malaysia, Taiwan, and Singapore are the places influenced me the most. Through this dish, starting from the broth, it's like start...
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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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Canada
Kali Fawcett
Canada
This dish is an homage to my mother and the time we spent in Italy together. I wanted to showcase a variety of ingredients and tec...
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Pierre Olivier Pelletier
Canada
I invent this plate in honor of the hard work of my father and my mother. My father always work in the cereal world and this is a ...
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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
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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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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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
Yunkyung CHO
France
France and my hometown, South Korea are both surrounded by the sea and is a temperate climate where produce, livestock, and seafoo...
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Yunkyung Cho, portrait picture
Oceanic revelations, signature dish
Yunkyung Cho
France
My signature dish, 'Oceanic Revelations,' contrasts the natural color of white cod with black squid ink to symbolize the impact of...
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William Ezzedine
France
I would like to pay tribute to all the places I have lived, thanks to my family coming from many backgrounds. I chose a fish that ...
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Iberian Countries
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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Nelson Freitas
Portugal
My favorite part of my childhood is the sea so that was my main inspira tion for this signature dish.I really want to transmite th...
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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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Italy
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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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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Maria Chiara Brannetti
Italy
I rapresented violence against woman. Living or cohabiting with someone who exhibits aggressive attitudes and feeling without a wa...
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Latin America & Caribbean
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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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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Kenneth Ruiz Montoya, portrait picture
Mackerel, plantain and coconut, signature dish
Kenneth Ruiz Montoya
Costa Rica
“Mackerel, plantain and coconut” refers to the day to day life of people living in humble seaside towns in Costa Rica, it highligh...
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Mainland of China
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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Yunze Zheng
China
The inspiration for this dish came from my hometown: Ningbo, Zhejiang. There is a dish in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province called Stir-Fr...
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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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North Europe
Filip Bjerkem, portrait picture
La perle nordique, signature dish
Filip Bjerkem
Norway
My culinary journey starts at the outbreak of the covid pandemic. Finding myself at a crossroad, I chose to go back to the roots a...
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Ivaylo Gaserov, portrait picture
Lamb from Røros, signature dish
Ivaylo Gaserov
Norway
The idea behind the dish is to connect the Bulgarian and Nordic cuisine through common ingredients and procedures. The lamb is com...
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Daniel Markovits
Estonia
Chicken and buckwheat is one of the cheapest healthy meal options that is very common to cook among people in Estonia. However, th...
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Pacific
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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Santiago Sansone, portrait picture
Sweet memories, signature dish
Santiago Sansone
The main purpose of this dish is to change the misconception that exists in some beef offal's, in this case "sweetbread", consider...
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Kimberly Tang, portrait picture
My mother's Tze Char, signature dish
Kimberly Tang
Australia
"My Mother's Tze Char" is a tribute to my late mother's dream of feeding the hungry. By transforming humble ingredients into a ric...
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South-East Europe & Mediterranean
Maciej Osiński, portrait picture
The circle of life, signature dish
Maciej Osiński
Poland
I’d like to introduce my dish, to express my way of thinking about both cooking and dealing with life outside of gastronomy. the d...
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Fanni Varga, portrait picture
Duck mosaic with hungarian twist, signature dish
Fanni Varga
Hungary
It has always been impotant to me that we use every part of our ingredients to fight against food waste, that is why is use whole ...
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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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Uk
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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Sam Heaven, portrait picture
Marbled venison, morels, blended bread and a reindeer moss sweetbread, signature dish
Sam Heaven
United Kingdom
I designed this dish as a homage to my wife and the restaurant we dream of opening which will fuse our two cultures together, NZ a...
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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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USA
Samuel Mumford
With the current climate crisis that we are faced I would use this opportunity to further educate the greater population on the ro...
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Prosenjit Biswas
I believe in Cuisine du terroir, sustainability and respect of the product. As a young chef I consider myself responsible for pre...
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Chainey Kuykendall, portrait picture
My mother's garden, signature dish
Chainey Kuykendall
United States
My dish is a homage to my mom. Being an immigrant, my mom has faced a lot of obstacles with my grandma (mee-maw), but the first ti...
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West Europe
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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Tamas Czegledi, portrait picture
Pigeon of Thomas, signature dish
Tamas Czegledi
Switzerland
When someone asks me, what my favorite thing to cook is, I always have to think. In my career I've worked at all stations in the k...
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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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