Culture / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Sunday 13 May
Celebrity chefs should stay in the kitchen
These days, standing behind a kitchen counter is the best way to reach fame.
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Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: Taste of action
Vaughan Smith is a veteran war cameraman who set up Frontline News TV in London. He shares a meal with Monocle at the Frontline Club restaurant.
Edits / Food & Drink
Cook School
We’ve handpicked the best cooking schools from around the world, including a Tasmanian cook leading guests from garden to kitchen and a chef’s guide to the markets of Israel.
Edits / Food & Drink
My last meal: Chef Kittichai
The son of a greengrocer who sold food on the streets as a child is now one of the world’s top Thai chefs. Ian Kittichai shares his ‘last meal’.
Edits / Food & Drink
My Last Meal: The modern man
TV chef Kentaro Kobayashi is known for no-nonsense dishes and his show teaching men how to cook. Over a meal at his favourite Italian restaurant, he talks about his accidental route into becoming a chef.
Affairs / Food & Drink
Noma hero
René Redzepi is regarded as one of the best chefs in the world and is credited with putting Denmark on the culinary map. Monocle meets the man at the forefront of the New Nordic cuisine.
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocle travel guide
Here are five of Melbourne’s newest off-the-radar bars and kitchens opened by young chefs, baristas, barkeepers and designers.
Edits / Food & Drink
Make it simple
Celebrated Swedish chef Mathias Dahlgren enjoys preparing complex dinners at work but likes to keep things simple in his free time. For the setting of his last meal, he would choose the quiet Nyckelviken forest just outside…
Edits / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Wednesday 31 August
Changing the world one plateful at a time
Chefs are everywhere – on our TVs, on our coffee tables, on the covers of our magazines, mostly flogging their restaurants and their recipes.
Edits / Entertainment
Monocolumn
Saturday 19 November
Weekend agenda, 19/20 November
Highlights of this weekend include a documentary festival in Amsterdam, Australian chef Bill Granger’s first London restaurant and an Aether pop-up in New York.
Business / Food & Drink
Monocolumn
Friday 1 January
2010: Using their noodle
If the increase in young-chef driven “boutique” ramen stores around Tokyo is any indication, 2010 is going to be a good year for ramen noodles.
Culture, episode 22
Chefs Fergus Henderson and Simon Hopkinson join us in the studio to discuss the art of creating a perfect menu.
Edits / Food & Drink
Modena man
Chef and restaurant owner Massimo Bottura is the perfect ambassador for the producers and specialities of his home town.
The Menu, episode 52
We visit a beer festival on the West Bank, a barbecue sauce bonanza in Kansas City, and Swedish chef Magnus Nilsson discusses his cuisine.
The Menu, episode 51
Chef and author Peter Gordon discusses his style of cooking and we visit a Berlin café refusing to serve coffee with sugar or soy milk.
The Menu, episode 17
We learn about smoked food, talk with Portuguese-born chef Nuno Mendes, visit a North Korean restaurant in Amsterdam and check what’s in Santiago’s basket.
Edits / Food & Drink
The Agrarian Kitchen
Three years ago, Australian chef Rodney Dunn and his wife swapped the city for the countryside to start their own farm-based cooking school. It’s a growing concern...
The Menu, episode 70
A look at Egyptian food’s renaissance, we speak to top chefs David Toutain and Nicolai Nørregaard in Copenhagen, and meet the barista of the week in Tokyo.
The Menu, episode 54
We learn about raw food in Berlin, visit a vineyard in Missouri, and hear from New York chef April Bloomfield.
The Menu, episode 25
We chat to Brazilian chef Alex Atala, sample Portuguese wine and enjoy a cookbook you can actually eat.