When you’re solely going to have one knife in your kitchen, it needs to be a chef’s knife. Considered one of New Zealand’s most celebrated chefs with many cookbooks and awards to her title, Langbein promotes a wholesome, easier way of living, sustained by home-grown, fresh food, easily ready and lovingly shared – an instance of how life must be.

Even before avial and meen curry reached restaurants throughout the country, there was Ente Keralam in Bengaluru and Chennai, serving food that Malayali grandmothers could be happy with. The man liable for this was chef Regi Mathew, who painstakingly researched recipes, cooking methods and utensils like clay pots, stone grinders and cast-iron pans and put these in a fine-eating restaurant.

Historically, Western knives have been sharpened to 20 to 22 levels on either side of the blade whereas Asian knives are thinner—just 15 degrees on either side. Few cooks are as infatuated by knives as Henry Harris, chef-director of The Hero of Maida , The Coach and Three Cranes.

Connoisseur skilled Sezai Zorlu, Head Chef and proprietor of Turkuaz – Genuine Turkish Kitchen, has a protracted and recognized career in culinary world. The country’s best cooks inform Food Network Magazine what they can not live with out. He’s govt chef to the Nourish Group which incorporates day-to-day running of Euro Restaurant and Jervois Steak House (Auckland); Bistro Lago (Taupo); and Shed 5 and Pravda restaurants (Wellington).