FOUR Magazine Announces Rising Stars Winners | Antioco Piras

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FOUR Magazine Announces Rising Stars Winners
Antioco Piras
International food magazine FOUR has named
Bertrand Grébaut, Dave Pynt, Ignacio Mattos and
Mitsuharu Tsumara as the four regional winners of
its Rising Stars chef competition for 2015. The
competition seeks to find the best chefs under 35
years old from around the world. Four regional
panels, comprising of some of the most
influential food writers and experts in the
world, picked winners for Europe, Asia and
Australia, North America and Latin America. Each
of the four will compete against each other to
be crowned FOUR Rising Star this
September. FOURs co-founder Antioco Piras said
that the competition sought to discover, promote
and celebrate the talent of young chefs the
world over. Rising Stars is our way of
identifying the chefs who we believe are the
strongest talents in a highly-talented world who
have already made a great impact where they are
cooking, and who we feel are going to go on to
accomplish even greater things internationally.
These four regional winners are phenomenal chefs
who exemplify dedication to their craft.
Europes winner, Frenchman Bertrand Grebaut, has
been head chef at the Parisian bijou bistro
Septime since September 2011. Bertrand cultivates
a dynamic cooking style, inspired by his travels
through Asia, and has served under Alain Passard
at LArpege, helping it earn its first Michelin
star in 2006.
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Aussie chef Dave Pynt, winner of the Asia and
Australia region, is well known for his love of
the barbecue, bringing a fiery flair to his work
as Head Chef at Singaporean restaurant Burnt Ends
with its open-kitchen and massive wood-burning
oven. Dave was inspired by grilling genius
Victor Arguinzoniz at Spains Assedor Extebarri,
and before that worked with Tetsuya Wakuda and
at Noma in Copenhagen.
Ignacio Mattos, Uruguayan-born but working in New
York, was named as winner for North America
thanks to his work at SoHos Estela, which he
established with Thomas Carter in 2013 and is
known for its uncomplicated but flavourful meals.
Ignacio previously worked with Argentine legend
Francis Mallmann and Alice Waters at Chez
Panisse, and was previously head chef at fellow
NYC restaurant Il Buco. Finally, Latin American
winner Mitsuharu Tsumura gives Japanese cuisine a
Peruvian twist at Maido in Lima, which combines
sushi service elements with a more traditional
restaurant experience. Widely considered as one
of the worlds eminent ambassadors for Nikkei
cuisine, Mitsuharu worked in Osaka at Seto Sushi
before returning home to cook at Limas Sheraton
Hotel. He opened Maido at the age of 28 in
2009. Last years FOUR Rising Star winner was
Agata Felluga, one of Italys most celebrated
female chefs, who has passed through some of the
best kitchens in her home country and France.
Today, she heads up Jour de Fête in Strasbourg,
where she focuses on infusing simple ingredients
with her creativity and technical
prowess. Judges

• Head judge for FOUR Rising Stars 2015 is Andrea
  Petrini, Chairman of Worlds 50 Best, creative
  director of Cook it Raw and co-director of the
  food festival Paris des Chefs. He is also head
  judge of the European region.
• Melinda Joe is head judge of the Asia and
  Australia region, a Tokyo based food, drinks and
  travel writer who contributes to FOUR, Wall
  Street Journal and the Japan Times.
• Jay Cheshes is the head judge for North America
  and is a trained chef turned food writer
• for Wall Street Journal and Time Out New York.
• Brazilian born Alexandra Forbes is the Latin
  America head judge, she writes for Worlds 50
  Best and is the food editor of GQ Brazil.

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