The Culinary Institute of America

Chef Magnus Ek of Oaxen Krog and Oaxen Slip in Stockholm

Chef Magnus Ek is the chef and owner of Oaxen Krog and Oaxen Slip in Stockholm. Over the past five years, Oaxen Krog has been named one the world’s top 50 restaurants by Restaurant magazine. Chef Magnus Ek's cooking relies heavily on wild plants and ingredients from local farms. In this demonstration, Chef Ek shows us some wild herbs has foraged.
 
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Eggplant Cannelloni with Chef Haim Cohen at Yaffo

Chef Haim Cohen at Yaffo Restaurant in Tel-Aviv, shows us how he makes Eggplant Cannelloni Baked in Tomato Sauce.
 
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Chef Sayan Isaksson of Restaurant Esperanto in Stockholm

Sayan Isaksson is the soft-spoken chef behind the bold flavors at Restaurant Esperanto in Stockholm.  The Thailand-born, Swedish-raised Isaksson skillfully marries Asian flavors with traditional Scandinavian ingredients.  In this demonstration, Chef Sayan prepares fresh monkfish with marinated monkfish liver, dried yuba chips and fresh daikon.
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Ouzeria Restaurant with Chef-Owner Avivit Priel

Chef Avivit Priel of Ouzeria restaurant in Tel Aviv shares the passion behind her favorite dishes on Ouzeria’s Medeiterranenan-influenced menu. Watch her create small plates, including eggplant carpaccio, roasted beet ravioli with feta, and lamb kebab with tomato confit “senia.”
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Chef Niklas Ekstedt of Ekstedt Restaurant in Stockholm

After a series of distinguished apprenticeships at El Bulli, The Fat Duck, and The French Laundry, Chef Niklas Ekstedt opened restaurants Niklas in Helsingborg, Sweden, and Ekstedt in Stockholm. At Ekstedt, he does all his cooking over an open fire pit using only cast-iron pots and tools. Enhancing the flavor of the oven's birch wood smoke, chef Ekstedt adds a finishing touch of hay to this dish of sweetbreads with corn and summer truffle.
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Ishtabach Restaurant with Chef Oren Sasson-Levy

After formal culinary training, Chef Oren Sasson-Levy of Ishtabach restaurant in Jerusalem decided to devote his talents to making shamburak—an oblong, meat-filled Kurdish turnover his grandmother used to make him as a child. Chef Sasson-Levy opened his restaurant Ishtabach, a double entendre meaning “the man is a cook,” and a Kaddish prayer meaning “may God be praised.” At his popular Jerusalem restaurant, Chef Sasson-Levy shows us the many variations of shamburak he produces each day.
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Chef Danyel Couet of F12 Restaurant in Stockholm

Danyel Couet, chef and co-owner of Stockholm’s F12 restaurant, is a Bocuse d´Or silver award winner and a multiple gold medalist on the Swedish culinary team. Drawing upon his French and Swedish heritage, Chef Couet’s cooking blends traditional Swedish ingredients with classic French techniques. Demonstrating his signature dish at F12, Chef Couet prepares locally raised veal with Scandinavian lobster tail, asparagus, and lemon confit.
 
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Chef Stefano Catenacci of Operakällaren Restaurant in Stockholm

Stefano Catenacci is the chef of the opulent Operakällaren restaurant in Stockholm, a job that comes with the added responsibility of cooking for the King of Sweden. We join Chef Catenacci in the kitchens of Operakällaren as he recreates a few of the dishes he prepared for the royal wedding of Sweden’s Princess Madeleine and Christopher O'Neill. 
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