Twenty international high profile chefs, including some of the biggest names in the world food scene, will be winging their way to Sydney for this year’s Crave Sydney International Food Festival in October.
Festival director Joanna Savill today announced the line up fronting the World Chef Showcase, one of the festival’s signature events.
The World Chef Showcase event sees remarkable chefs and food personalities from around the world bring their creative genius to Sydney, to join Sydney’s and Australia’s finest for two action-packed days.
The 20 international arrivals include the highly original New York chef, Wylie Dufresne from wd~50 restaurant (No. 45 on the San Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurants list) who will show off his extraordinary, techno-based cooking. Marcus Wareing from the elegant Berkeley Hotel in London (two Michelin stars, No. 58 on the World’s Best list) is also coming to town, along with rising new-generation star, Alexandre Gauthier from France (No. 76) and Australian star Ben Shewry from Attica in Melbourne (No. 73).
They will be joined by Sydney’s own Peter Gilmore from Quay (no. 27) and Tetsuya Wakuda (Tetsuya’s, No. 38) plus a number of other local and international stars, including TV faces Kylie Kwong, Rick Stein, Luke Nguyen and Sean Connolly.
Savill said this year’s Showcase themes reflect the culinary Zeitgeist: an increasing concern about where fresh produce comes from and how it is grown; the fascinating flavours of the Middle East and Turkey; and of course, the latest in kitchen wizardry from the avant-garde chef set.
From Hong Kong, there’s Margaret Xu Yuan from Kitchen Yin Yang, with her field-to-plate approach to ingredients and cooking. We’ll learn all about extraordinary village traditions in Turkey from Musa Dagdeviren of the famed Ciya restaurants in Istanbul and find out why dessert chefs, like such as Janice Wong from Singapore’s 2am:dessert bar, are the new restaurant rock stars.
“The inaugural World Chef Showcase in 2009 created an incredible buzz with inspirational ideas, food and the chance to get up close and personal with a really exciting group of top chefs and food experts,” said Savill.
“This year is set to be even more thrilling and Sydney will literally be the centre of the world for all things food.”
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