Vegetables as a fine dining dish; the importance of gender balance in the kitchen - and one chef’s mother’s superhero role in his success - these were the messages taken away from the UK & North Europe regional final of the global San Pellegrino Young Chef 2020 in London recently. That was whittled down, by means of a written submission, to just 135 chefs selected to take part in 12 regional finals – and two of them were from Ireland. Fagundes Galindo also melded his origins with his Irish experiences in a dish called Textures and Flavours of Palm and Ox. Fagundes Galindo’s dish required fresh palm, harvested in his home country and shipped to him in Dublin. It was the chef’s mother who came up with the solution, a specialised 25kg crate normally used to transport medicines.

Source: The Irish Times November 24, 2019 06:00 UTC