MARSHAL Chef Coetsee John Croucamp Is the Newly Appointed Chief Marshal of the Emirates Culinary Guild
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FROM US. FOR US. AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2020 gulf www.gulfgourmet.net myChefID volume 15, issue 6 THE MAGAZINE CHEFS LOVE TO READ THE COURT’S MARSHAL Chef Coetsee John Croucamp is the newly appointed chief marshal of the Emirates Culinary Guild THE NEW NORMAL TRIPLE DELIGHT ITALIAN JOB What does the ‘new This month three UAE Exclusive interview with normal’ even mean? teams vie for the Nestle Marcello Vigano, the Chairman Andy Cuthbert Professional Golden Italian Kitchen Chef at gives us his thoughts Chef’s Hat Award Eataly in Dubai Mall Inspiration can come at any anytime. The trick is to be near a kitchen when it does. CHEF® Demi Glace is a meaty and rich, highly soluble powder, base sauce to create your own signature sauce. To request a free demo from our chef please contact us: 600 595950 www.nestleprofessionalme.com /Chefcirclearabia August - September 2020 Gulf Gourmet president’sstation email [email protected] PRESIDENT’S STATION Dear fellow chefs, ladies and gentlemen, Welcome to the August-September issue of our Gulf Gourmet. I hope everyone made it through the summer okay given this difficult time. Though some hotels and restaurants remain closed, we finally see the market picking up. We hear some restaurants have returned to doing very well, which is good news. We do understand that many of our colleagues are still at home (many with no pay or reduced pay) and waiting. Hope you all have the opportunity to return to work very soon. I request all of you, even if you are in a very difficult position, to please stay calm and positive. Hold on to your passion for our great profession and industry. Together, we will weather this storm. We will keep our heads held up high and rebuild our great WORLD ASSOCIATION industry together. O F CHEFS S OCIETIES Your Emirates Culinary Guild team was busy these last few months with Federation and the Emirates Culinary Please visit gulfgourmet.net to browse multiple projects. First, we relaunched Guild, I congratulate everyone for through previous issue of the magazine. our YouTube channel and followed it their great effort. We received many Visit emiratesculinaryguild.net to see up with a virtual competition that saw amazing recipes and videos and the our upcoming events calendar. And visit great results. See the winners in this finest 24 videos are on ourEmirates www.facebook.com/wacsyoungchefs for issue. Soon after, we launched the next Culinary Guild You Tube Channel. Please young chefs to be in contact with over one in partnership with the US Meat subscribe and watch all videos there. 4,000 chefs worldwide. Export Federation. The next competition is the USA Poultry Please do not miss the company profile The Virtual US Beef Cooking Competition Virtual Online Cooking Competition of our corporate members. We really do is made up of four classes for brought to us by USA Poultry and Egg appreciate your support. Also do look at professional chefs and amateur chefs. Export Council and United Soybean Board. the Friends of the Guild pages to check We received a great response from all our supporters. across all GCC countries as it was open The result and winning pictures will be in to nationals and residents of the GCC. the October issue of Gulf Gourmet. Culinary Regards, See the winners of this competition as Uwe Micheel well in this issue. On August 15 we had a very successful President, Emirates Culinary Guild Virtual Congress. We will have more Director of Kitchens, On behalf of the US Beef Export details and updates in the next issue. Radisson Blu Hotel Dubai Deira Creek 3 August - September 2020 Gulf Gourmet CONTENTS ggcontents 07 Editor’s Note Our Editor’s take on all things F&B in the region 14 08 Friends of the Guild Brands that support the Emirates Culinary Guild 11 Newsbites Chef events and news from within the country and around the globe 14 The New Normal The Emirates Culinary Guild’s Chairman reveals his thoughts on what the ‘new normal’ really means and finds out how we can learn to live with it 18 Pastry Mastery (by Arla Pro) A profile of ChefMulyatna Sardiono, the complex senior pastry chef at Hilton 22 Chef of the Month Exclusive interview with Marcello Vigano, the Italian Kitchen Chef in Eataly, Dubai Mall 26 Cover Story Chef Coetsee John Croucamp, the newly- appointed chief marshal of the Emirates Culinary Guild 18 34 4 August - September 2020 Gulf Gourmet CONTENTS 42 34 Three Golden Chef Teams Compete (by Nestle Professional) This month three teams compete for the Nestle Professional Golden Chef’s Hat Award – Season 8. Chefs Ranil Sameera and Shiran Warunajith Alahakoon from Miramar Al Aqah Beach Resort, Chefs Shehan Isuranaga and Sudip Pandey from Nakheel Hospitality- owned Al Furjan Club, and Chefs Patrick V. Ramos and Lekhnath Thapaliya from Emirates Flight Catering 46 Events Exclusive images from 38 culinary events in the region. This issue showcases exclusive images from US Beef Virtual Cooking competition and the Anybody Can Cook competition organized by the Emirates Culinary Guild. 55 Rules and Regulations Complete listing of rules and regulations for the USAPEEC virtual competition. 58 Members Directory A listing of all leading food, beverage and equipment suppliers in the region 62 More Than A Chef Column by TedX speaker 46 Rohit Bassi 5 READY TO BAKE PREMIUM FRENCH BREAD & CROISSANTS August - September 2020 Gulf Gourmet editor’snote EDITOR'S NOTE email [email protected] ere’s a story from Canada. A opportunities. Many of these may be chef friend of mine says this different, but they are an evolution of is the first time in decades the industry we work in. he’s forced to sit at home. HFor someone trained to be on his feet 14 Talking of going digital, even our hours a day, this change is frustrating. competitions seem to have gone online. The Emirates Culinary Guild has an His wife works for another hospitality active YouTube channel where you can business in HR and her workload see these virtual competitions and some has increased. She is busy creating good training videos for free. paperwork to terminate employment contracts at her workplace. If you are free from the burden of 14-hour work shifts, now is the time He says, “Just the way, those guys do to do something using the power of not know they are going to be fired, technology. Could it fall flat on the face? who knows my company too might Sure, it could. But it could also become be doing the same thing to me. I am a hit. Like they say, nothing ventured equally clueless.” nothing gained. I am sure many are in a similar space. In this issue are two articles about how to think differently in the new normal. What’s amazing is that amidst all this One is written by Andy Cuthbert, which doom and gloom scenarios, we have is a must read for senior chefs and seen some beautiful stories emerge. hospitality leaders. The other is written Stories of perseverance. I know of two by our columnist Rohit Bassi. Their Filipino chefs who have created their kitchens, dark kitchens, ghost kitchens answers are simple to follow. You just own dish and are selling it online to and what not. Small mom and pop need the will to do it. their social media followers. If I am restaurants have started accepting not wrong, they are making a killing on online payments and tied up with their That and many more great chef stories it – probably more than their salaries? local food delivery partners. fill the pages of this issue. – and they have no boss to answer to. I shall try and interview at least one of As an Editor I keep getting press Enjoy the read and until next time keep them for an upcoming edition. releases of new initiatives being cooking with passion. launched, not just in the city but Then there is the great rush to catch around the world. And I must say Aquin George up with technology. We have cloud that the future will have a lot of Editor EMIRATES Uwe Micheel MIDDLE EAST OFFICE Smartcast Group LLC CREDITS CULINARY GUILD President PO Box 34891, FROM US. FOR US. AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 2020 gulf www.gulfgourmet.net myChefID +971 4 340 3128, [email protected] Dubai, Shams, United Arab Emirates volume 15, issue 6 THE MAGAZINE CHEFS LOVE TO READ EDITORIAL Aquin George www.groupsmartcast.com Managing Editor & Publisher THE COURT’S SALES OFFICE Middle East Alta Verba FZ-LLC, UAE MARSHAL Amaresh Bhaskaran Chef Coetsee John International Vattacan Inc. Canada Croucamp is the newly Associate Publisher & Photo Editor appointed chief marshal of the Emirates Culinary Guild [email protected] Vahiju PC Art Director COPYRIGHT Gulf Gourmet is a registered trademark with the Canadian CONTRIBUTORS Samaneh Naseri Intellectual Property Office and licensed by the National Media Kirti Pandey Council in the UAE. All material appearing in Gulf Gourmet Atim Suyatim is copyright unless otherwise stated or it may rest with the provider of the supplied material. The publisher accepts no REGISTERED OFFICE Vattacan Inc responsibility or liability for the accuracy of any information THE NEW NORMAL TRIPLE DELIGHT ITALIAN JOB What does the ‘new This month three UAE Exclusive interview with normal’ even mean? teams vie for the Nestle Marcello Vigano, the Chairman Andy Cuthbert Professional Golden Italian Kitchen Chef at 243 Elgin Dr, Ontario L6Y2V2, contained in the text or advertisements. Views expressed are gives us his thoughts Chef’s Hat Award Eataly in Dubai Mall Canada.