Food, drink and travel writer + sommelier | Argentina + Latin America
(The Independent) “It’s a bit weird to be compared with Jamie Oliver,” says Xanty Elias, who recently received the Basque Culinary World Prize 2021 for his work addressing childhood obesity in his native Spain. “But we both want to change the mindset that isn’t just about fighting obesity but using gastronomy as a positive tool.” […]
(The Essentialist) The World’s Best Female Chef shares some favourite spots in her home city. To read this please check out The Essentialist.
(Fine Dining Lovers) Anointed Latin America’s Best Female Chef three years ago, Pía León now adds the title of world’s best to an impressive CV. Cook, wife, mother and a twin, little stands in the way of the Peruvian chef-patronne of Kjolle restaurant in Lima’s hip Barranco neighbourhood. Today known for an informal approach to fine dining, whose solid […]
(Lugares/La Nación) Ya la habían nombrado la mejor chef femenina de América Latina hace tres años, y ahora suma el título de la mejor chef del mundo, según los premios The World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Melliza, cocinera, esposa, madre, peruana, Pía León picó en punta y nadie puede frenar a la dueña de Kjolle, el restaurante […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Given that two-thirds of all Argentines have either Italian or Spanish blood, it’s not surprising that European dishes (with hints of Middle Eastern and Jewish flavours) have long dominated food heritage in Argentina. But because of the South American country’s willingness to welcome migrants, a wave of Asian cuisines have been steadily […]
(Condé Nast Traveller) These are the best of restaurants to have opened in the last year, our 2021 Hot List. They are the spots we can’t wait to eat in as soon as it’s safe to do so. FAYER, Madrid, Spain Having introduced their fascinating mix of Argentine and contemporary Israeli cooking to Buenos Aires four years ago, […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) It’s a warm autumnal afternoon in Buenos Aires, ash leaves dot the pavement and sun streams between the mid-rise buildings in the hip barrio of Palermo. At Huerta Luna de Enfrente, a sustainable urban community allotment, a small group of green-fingered neighbours are taking advantage of the amiable weather to transplant seedlings into 30-cubic-metre vegetable […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) Well ahead of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants awards revealing its 2020 rankings, the stage had been set to be the year of the female chef. First up was Janaina Rueda of Bar de Dona Onça and A Casa do Porco in São Paulo, who picked up the Icon award; the much-coveted Chefs’ Chef prize went to Leo Espinosa of Restaurante LEO in Bogotá; Narda Lepes of Narda Comedor in Buenos […]
(Fine Dining Lovers) It was a precocious 20-year-old Pablo Rivero who threw the few savings he had, along with backing from his grandmother and father, into a humble parrilla (steakhouse) that opened in a sketchy Buenos Aires ‘hood shortly before Argentina’s most devastating economic crisis unleashed its turmoil in 2001. Today, Parrilla Don Julio tops the bucket list of almost every […]
(Atlas of the Future) Few chefs have the vision and skill to sow 223 varieties of native potatoes on their Andean restaurant’s high-altitude farmland, replicating the efforts of a neighbouring Inca agricultural research centre with a contemporary model in order to improve tuber genetics while collaborating with two indigenous communities. But Virgilio Martínez is doing […]