I’ve always wanted one of these temperature-controlled mugs for my coffee.
The Next Iron Chef., and was named Rising Star Chef at the James Beard Foundation Awards.".
Before being named Best New Chefs in 2009, Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo used the award as a motivator when they were in the weeds during dinner service at their nose-to-tail restaurant, Animal, in Los Angeles."Cook like you're going to win Best New Chef!"Shook would cry to the kitchen staff.
Even after they won, the award remained a motivator."I felt a huge amount of pressure, in a weird way," says Dotolo, "because I knew what it meant for all the classes before us, and what it meant for the restaurant.
It was a good pressure.".
The process for finding each year's Best New Chefs has remained largely unchanged since 1988.Gastrodiplomacy, also known as culinary diplomacy, involves a country using food as a means of globalizing and gaining international influence.
This was something Thailand was particularly skilled at.In 2002, the Thai government launched the Global Thai Program, a diplomatic initiative with the aim of increasing the number of Thai restaurants worldwide.
The state provided training programs, grants, and information to Thai investors who wanted to open restaurants abroad.As part of this campaign, Pad Thai — a dish with virtually no cultural history — was positioned as Thailand's national dish and pioneered a culinary campaign funded by the Thai government with 500 million baht ($15 million USD).
(Editor: Durable Trackers)