World of Mouth podcast

Jan 22 2025 72 ep. 39 mins 7

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Looking for restaurants recommendations from the world’s best chefs? Introducing the World of Mouth podcast, where co-founder and creative director Kenneth Nars talks with some of the world’s best chefs. We get to hear their stories, about their background, their rise to fame and their favorite destinations to travel and eat. All of the recommendations mentioned in the podcast are available in the World of Mouth app.
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70. A Brazilian garden - Manu Buffara from Manu in Curitiba, Brazil

Jan 22 2025 33 mins

Manu Buffara is the chef and restaurateur of restaurant Manu in Curitiba, Brazil. She grew up on a farm in Southern Brazil with her family of Italian and Lebanese ancestry. Aged 15, she moved to Curitiba, earned a degree in journalism and studied hotel management and gastronomy in Curitiba and in Piedmont, Italy. She worked as a trainee at Noma in Copenhagen and at three-star Aline

69. The Sioux Chef - Sean Sherman from Owamni in Minneapolis.

Jan 08 2025 42 mins

Sean Sherman is an activist and the chef at restaurant Owamni, Minneapolis. He is also an educator, an author and a member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux tribe. He was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and as a teenager began working in restaurants and also worked as a field surveyor for the forest service, where he gained knowledge of native plants. After moving to

68. Vegetarian fine dining - Paul Ivic from Tian in Vienna, Austria.

Nov 28 2024 50 mins

Paul Ivic is the chef at Tian in Vienna, Austria. Born in Tyrol with Croatian roots, he learned his trade in top gastronomy in Germany, Austria and Switzerland before starting his vegetarian restaurant Tian in Vienna 2011 and later TIAN Bistro am Spittelberg. The Michelin-starred chef has now become a pioneer of vegetable cuisine and an advocate of biodynamic agriculture. In the po

67. Farm to table - Merlin Labron-Johnson from Osip in Somerset, England

Nov 09 2024 38 mins

Merlin Labron-Johnson is the chef and restaurateur of Osip in Somerset, England. He was raised in Devon, worked in several Michelin starred restaurants before becoming sous chef at Kobe Desramaults restaurant In de Wulf in Belgium. In 2014 he moved back to the UK to launch Portland restaurant and later Clipstone in Fitzrovia. Merlin Labron-Johnson now resides in rural Somerset wher

66. A hybrid restaurant - Genie Kwon from Kasama in Chicago.

Oct 23 2024 43 mins

Genie Kwon is the chef and owner of Kasama in Chicago. She grew up in New Orleans, studied at university and then decided to become a baker and chef. That led her to working in some of the best restaurants in the world, among them Eleven Madison Park and Oreole in the US and with Janice Wong and Andre Chiang in Singapore. In 2020 Genie Kwon opened Kasama, a modern Filipino restaura

65. Cooking the Midlands - Sat Bains in Nottingham, England.

Oct 09 2024 38 mins

Sat Bains is the chef and owner of restaurant Sat Bains in Nottingham, England. His parents moved to England from India and he grew up with Indian, mostly vegetarian cooking. As a teenager, he picked a cooking class in school by random, became a cook and after a few years of work decided to make a change and become one of the best. Today, he has been running his 2 Michelin Star res

64. A Dutch master - Joris Bijdendijk from RIJKS in Amsterdam.

Sep 25 2024 53 mins

Joris Bijdendijk is the executive chef of restaurants RIJKS, Wils and Wils Bakery Café in Amsterdam. His interest for cooking started while spending his childhood weekends in the countryside at his family’s vegetable garden. As a teenager he apprenticed with chef Ron Blaauw and got his education while working at restaurants in the Netherlands and France. In his cooking he blends

63. The Global British Chef - Jason Atherton

Sep 11 2024 45 mins

Jason Atherton is one of the most respected British chef-restaurateurs with tens of restaurants as part of The Social Company. Atherton started working in the late 1980’s for legendary chefs like Pierre Koffmann, Marco Pierre White, Nico Ladenis and Ferran Adria, before joining Gordon Ramsay in 2001 and launching ‘Maze’, first in London and then another five globally. He left

62. Modern Filipino cooking - Jordy Navarra from Toyo Eatery, Manila.

Aug 28 2024 36 mins

Jordy Navarra is the Chef at Toyo Eatery in Manila, the Philippines. He entered the culinary scene quite late and worked in kitchens worldwide, and while working in the UK he started to miss miss the rice based Filipino meals of his youth. Back in Manila, he opened Toyo Eatery in 2016 and it soon became a pioneer of modern Filipino cuisine. In 2018, the restaurant entered Asia’s

61. Californian roots - Stuart Brioza from State Bird Provisions in San Francisco.

Aug 17 2024 78 mins

Stuart Brioza is the chef and co-owner of State Bird Provisions, The Progress and The Anchovy Bar in San Francisco. Born and raised in California, he worked in restaurants while still in high school. After culinary school, he worked in Chicago and France and then returned to California working at Rubicon before opening State Bird Provisions with his wife, pastry chef Nicole Krasins