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SHOW KITCHEN

26 April — 2 May 2017

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Introduction

Supporters

Chefs

Schedule

INTRODUCTION

Abu Dhabi International Book Fair’s multinational Kitchen!

Show Kitchen brings inspiring chefs from different parts of the world to share their passion for cooking, mouthwatering recipes and tips for healthy eating.

Food lovers can watch, meet, taste and cook along with our chefs during live cooking demonstrations while recreating delicious recipes. Take a tasting trip and experience the unique aromas and flavours from around the world.

We wish you Bon Appétit, Enjoy your meal, Selamat menjamu selera, Smaklig Måltid , Verði þér að góðu – or rather: بالهنــا / والشــفاء بالهنــاء والشــفا

8 CHEFS

Master Chef Pankaj Bhadouria

The first winner of India’s first televised reality cooking show, MasterChef India, Chef Pankaj is not only a talented chef but a media superstar. She first showcased her passion for the kitchen on her 2012 show Chef Pankaj Ka Zayka. She is now the face of Knorr, the brand ambassador for Master Chef Travels and has her own mobile application, available on BlackBerry, iPhones and Google Play. She also launched her dream project, the Pankaj Bhadouria Culinary Academy, where she shares her love for culinary arts with cooking enthusiasts.

9CHEFS

Chef Pawel Kazanowski

In 2008 Chef Pawel moved to Dubai to join the high-end Zuma. Now he is the executive chef responsible for all the Zumas in the Middle East and Turkey; the Abu Dhabi version won the 2014 Best New Restaurant in Abu Dhabi.Chef Pawel developed a passion for cooking at a very young age. He started his professional career at Yoshino, one of the most popular Japanese restaurants in London. Although he specialises in Japanese food, his passion for Polish cuisine and culture is very much alive, and he is proud to represent Poland in the UAE.

10 CHEFS

Chef Julius Mutava

Chef Julius travelled the world before coming to the UAE in 2012. He was part of the team that won the Two Hat Restaurant Award in 2013 and currently serves as the head culinary instructor at the Culinary Boutique Dubai, a gourmet café cooking and events venue. Born in Kenya, he showed his culinary inclination at a tender age. After graduating from the Top Chefs Culinary Arts Institute in Kenya, Chef Julius worked with the prestigious Southern Sun group of hotels in South Africa. He later joined Restaurant Gordon Ramsay in London followed by a stint with Prime Catering, a high-end Canadian-based catering company.

11CHEFS

Chef Irfana Waheed

The owner of the small California restaurant, Anaya’s Kitchen, Chef Irfana started cooking with her mother and grandmother when she was just a girl. She gives weekly cooking classes with a menu featuring a starter, a main course and a dessert. The recipes use seasonal and organic products to prepare food of the highest calibre.

12 CHEFS

Chef Khawla Aissane

In addition to cooking, Chef Khawla is also a kitchen and pastry correspondent for the Al Akhbar. She holds a Diploma in Moroccan and Intercontinental Pastry (2000); Diploma in Moroccan and Intercontinental Cuisine (2002) and Diploma in Journalism with a major in documentaries (2008). She has worked as a culinary instructor for 6 years and a correspondent for the sections on cooking, pastry sweets and nutrition tips of many newspapers and magazines in Morocco, Tunisia, Spain, France and the Gulf States sections. Chef Khawla has also hosted numerous cooking-shows broadcast by many radio and TV stations in Morocco and Spain. She was Headmistress of the first exposition of traditional cakes of all regions of Morocco in Rabat and first festival of Moroccan gastronomy in Agadir.

13CHEFS

Chef Khaldoon Ghraizi

A specialist in Lebanese cooking, Chef Khaldoon currently works at the Lancaster Beirut, where he has developed and innovated many Eastern dishes. His passion for everything related to the kitchen lead him to study at the Lebanese School for Cooking, where he completed his courses in 2002, and he has since worked in hotels, restaurants and cruise ships. Chef Khaldoon has also been featured at numerous culinary conferences and appeared on Lebanese TV cooking shows.

14 CHEFS

Chef Ritu Chaturvedi

A food blogger and stylist, Chef Ritu cooks healthy vegetarian food with natural ingredients, whole grains, good fats and local produce. She wants to promote simple, nutritious eating because she believes the state of our health reflects the food we eat. Her philosophy was partly derived from her mother, who taught a young Chef Ritu the importance of home cooking. For her, cooking is an art form and the kitchen is her art studio; she creates magic by using the colours of fruits and herbs.

15CHEFS

Chef Maimoona

An expert in Mughlai cuisine, Chef Maimoona runs her family catering business that specialises in big weddings and functions. She learned the secrets of authentic cooking at an early age from her mother and has honed her own simple approach since. Her curiosity and love of learning has given Chef Maimoona a special ability to improvise dishes after just seeing or tasting them. She also blogs about food.

16 CHEFS

Chef Angelo

Chef Angelo was born in Brazil, grew up in Italy and recently moved to Dubai, where he works at the Culinary Boutique Dubai, a gourmet café and cooking school. He has spent a lifetime in hospitality; at a young age he spent his school break working in a hotel and assisting his mother in the kitchen. He went on to study hotel management and apprenticed in many high-end restaurants in Italy. Chef Angelo specialises in Italian cuisine and has extensive experience in the kitchens of some of Italy’s most notable hotels, creating menus for everything from fine dining to banquets and large-scale events.

17CHEFS

Chef Manzoor

Chef Manzoor started his culinary journey when he was 18 years old, took training in Hotel and Catering Management from Karachi Sheraton in Pakistan. He specialises in Pakistani, Intercontinental and Arabic cuisine. He is an expert with 28 years of culinary profession and kitchen management experience. Currently he works as Head Chef in Zabeel Palace, where he brings with him immense knowledge of creative cooking. During his career, he has improvised and created mouthwatering dishes. Before joining Zabeel Palace he was Chef De Cuisine in Dhow Palace Dubai, Jumeirah Beach Hotel and Burj al Arab.

18 CHEFS

Chef Nisreen Al Marzooqi

Chef Nisreen Al Marzooqi is an Emirati chef. She specialises in creating fusion of Persian and Arabic dishes and is very good in cooking creative yet simple dishes. She comes from a family that loves cooking, her main inspiration and passion towards cooking is her mom and husband.

19CHEFS

Chef Sevda Dursan

Ched Sevda Dursan is a Turkish chef with an outstanding knowledge of Turkish cuisine. Her specialty is all kinds of Turkish sweets and Turkish Mezze. She has a long list of credits which includes several awards and assignments. Her earlier experience includes a project with INSTABUL FLOWER RESTAURANT & CAFETERIA. She currently conducts cookery courses for children in the age of nine to fourteen teaching them skills for baking. She also organizes events for Gulf Food Exhibition Dubai and Tike Turkish Restaurant.

20 CHEFS

Chef Mohammed Mazheruddin

Mazheruddin hails from Hyderabad and lives in Dubai. He is expert in all kinds of Hyderabadi (Mughlai) dishes. He is creative yet simple and holds years of experience in managing big catering requests in Hyderabad through his catering company called Anmoal catering. He has improvised many dishes; he participated in numerous cooking challenges and hosted cooking shows for book fairs.

21CHEFS

Chef Assia Othman

Chef Assia hails from Morocco and is currently based in the UAE. She is founder of “Assia Kitchen”; cookbook author in both Arabic and English and TV cooking-show host in the Gulf and the Arab Republic of Egypt, chief among which is the cookery show “Assia Kitchen,” Set el Beit TV Channel. She is also a food stylist throughout the Arab world and Middle East Brand Ambassador for leading companies. Chef Assia is known for her remarkable blending of diverse cultures through her varied cuisine, improvising fusion of Moroccan, Arab and Intercontinental dishes, to deliver uniquely rich content to her followers through her shows and social networking websites.

22 CHEFS

Charles Perry

A culinary historian who has written widely on medieval Middle East cuisine, he studied Middle Eastern Languages at Princeton, the University of California at Berkeley and the Middle East Centre for Arab Studies, Shimlan, Lebanon. He has worked as a journalist for Rolling Stone and the Los Angeles Times. He began collecting medieval Arab cookery manuscripts in 1980 and has published widely on Middle Eastern food history. He contributed the chapter on the Middle East for the American Historical Society textbook Food in Time and Space and has translated a number of pre-modern texts, including al-Baghdadi’s The Book of Dishes.

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SCHEDULE

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Wed - 26 April Thur - 27 April Fri - 28 April Sat - 29 April Sun - 30 May Mon - 1 May Tue - 2 May9:00

Official OpeningFriday Fair Opens At 4:00

Chef Khaldoun Ghraizi Cooking with Children

Chef Ritu ChaturvediCooking with Children

Chef Khawla Aissane Cooking with Children

Chef Assia Othman

Cooking with Children


10:00

11:00

Chef Sevda Dursan Cooking with Children


Chef Maimoona Cooking with Children

Chef Angelo Cooking with Children

Chef Irfana Cooking with Children

12:00

13:00

Break Break Break Break Break

14:00

15:00

16:00

Middle Eastern food by Chef Charles Perry

Emirati Food by Chef Nisreen

Healthy Recipesby Chef Ritu Chaturvedi

Food from Nawab’s Kitchenby Chef Maimoona

Italian Recipes by Chef Angelo


American Sizzlers by Chef Irfana

17:00

18:00

Labanese Dishes by Chef Khaldoun Ghraizi

Secret Recipes by Chef Manzoor

Food with a Twist by Chef Julius

Polish Food by Chef Pawel Kazanowski

Zaiqa by Master Chef Pankaj

Bhadouria


Assia’s Kitchenby Chef Assia Othman

19:00

20:00

Turkish Cuisine by Chef Sevda Dursan




Food from Morroco by Chef Khawla Aissane


Bhadouria

Hyderabadi Dishes

by Chef Mazheruddin

21:00

The Show Kitchen will officially close at 10:00 pm daily

25schedule

Wed - 26 April Thur - 27 April Fri - 28 April Sat - 29 April Sun - 30 May Mon - 1 May Tue - 2 May9:00

Official OpeningFriday Fair Opens At 4:00


Chef Ritu ChaturvediCooking with Children


Chef Assia Othman

Cooking with Children


10:00

11:00

Chef Sevda Dursan Cooking with Children


Chef Maimoona Cooking with Children

Chef Angelo Cooking with Children

Chef Irfana Cooking with Children

12:00

13:00

Break Break Break Break Break

14:00

15:00

16:00


Emirati Food by Chef Nisreen

Healthy Recipesby Chef Ritu Chaturvedi


Italian Recipes by Chef Angelo



17:00

18:00

Labanese Dishes by Chef Khaldoun Ghraizi

Secret Recipes by Chef Manzoor




Bhadouria


Assia’s Kitchenby Chef Assia Othman

19:00

20:00

Turkish Cuisine by Chef Sevda Dursan




Food from Morroco by Chef Khawla Aissane


Bhadouria

Hyderabadi Dishes

by Chef Mazheruddin

21:00

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