Mathew PETERS

Born October 14 1983 A native of Meadville, Pennsylvania, Mathew Peters started cooking as a teenager, in his family… Watching the TV programme “Great Chefs of the World”, something clicked in him: this was going to be his profession.   At the age of 19, he entered the Cordon Bleu school in Pittsburgh, where he […]

Ørjan JOHANNESSEN

Ørjan presented his country with another medal in 2015. That victory at the Bocuse d’Or had nothing to do with luck: it was the outcome of sheer persistence. Since 2007, Ørjan has been working, training, and competing alongside the man Norwegian chefs view as the best coach of all: Odd Ivar Solvold. From 2008, he took part […]

Kenneth TOFT-HANSEN

Born May 11 1982 Looking at Kenneth’s career path is a bit like enjoying a surge of positive energy. From the age of 17, he started training as a cook at the vocational high school in Silkeborg. After starting out as a dishwasher at the Christian 8 restaurant, in the same town, he worked relentlessly to […]

Davy TISSOT

Davy Tissot comes from a family of immigrants and grew up in the Les Minguettes neighbourhood of Lyon, alongside his grandmother, uncles and aunts. “My grandmother was Sicilian and she would get up at 4 am to give her dishes time to slow-cook. Our whole apartment building could smell them, and everything was shared, even […]