F E A T U R E D C H E F S A R T S & C U L T U R E I S S U E PHOTO: THE TIMES ALAIN DUCASSE Alain Ducasse is arguably the top chef in the world, holding seventeen Michelin stars - the most of any (living) chef. He developed a love of Provençal cuisine in the late 1970s while PHOTO: LIZ PALMER working at Le Moulin de Mougins, leading him to earn his first Michelin star as Executive Chef of La Terrasse in Juan-les-Pins in 1984. Over the years, he has opened 36 restaurants worldwide - including Ducasse in Paris, Ducasse at the Dorchester in London, Benoit in New York, Beige Alain Ducasse in Japan, and more. His restaurants mostly serve world-class French cuisine and offer extravagant tasting menus as PHOTO: THE PARIS MUSINGS well as à la carte menus. ANDREA DRUMMER Executive Chef of Los Angeles' Lowell Café, Andrea Drummer PHOTO: ANDREA DRUMMER has been featured in Vogue for her popular series, Breaking Bread, and for her work with top celebrities and music artists throughout her culinary career. Following training at famed Le Cordon Bleu, Chef Andrea Drummer focused on hosting CBD infused farm to table dining experiences through her companies, Elevation VIP Cooperative and Lowell Farms. PHOTO: URBAN DADDY ERIK BRUNER-YANG A rising culinary star, Erik Bruner- Yang, was born in Taiwan and raised in the US. In 2011, Bruner- Yang opened Toki Underground, a ramen shop in Washington D.C. that is known to be crowd-drawing dishes inspired, by the time he spent caring for his grandfather in Taiwan. PHOTO: STAR CHEFS Since then, Bruner-Yang has opened five new restaurants housed under the Foreign National group, each with their own niche atmosphere in DC. Bruner-Yang’s acknowledgements include James Beard’s “Rising Star Chef” in 2015, a semifinalist for “Best Chef, Mid- Atlantic” in 2016, and the RAMMY Award for Best New Restaurant in 2019 for his spot in the Line D.C. hotel Spoken English. Most recently, Bruner-Yang has been applauded for his Power of 10 crowdfunding plan, which hires out-of-work chefs to feed communities in need. PHOTO: WASHINGTON POST.