Molecular gastronomy

The world of gastronomy came together in Las Vegas on June 6 to celebrate and recognize The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2024, with Barcelona's Disfrutar, run by the skilled chef trio of Oriol Castro, Eduard Xatruch and Mateu Casañas, named The World's Best Restaurant.

Perhaps her name hasn't reached many of you yet. That is because she is a chef who prefers to work quietly and steadily, avoiding the spotlight. Allow me to introduce Suna Hakyemez, the head chef at Roka in Istanbul. Her story and dedication have become a source of inspiration for many in the culinary world.

Forty years of an incredible culinary adventure resumed in a mere seven hours! That is what exactly happened in early February in Copenhagen. For the lucky few that had a chance to attend, a very special dining experience titled SINERGIA took place just for three consequent days on Feb. 2-4th.

'The Taste of Things,' which hopes to win an Oscar nod in January, is a sumptuous 19th century romance about a cook.

Controversy has simmered around France's entry for the Oscars, "The Taste of Things," a love letter to the country's culinary traditions but filmmaker Tran Anh Hung and star chef Pierre Gagnaire say the art of cooking is worth celebrating.

With off-the-wall dishes like butterfly wings or simple local products, restaurants Denmark, the recent darling of the culinary world, in are outdoing each other to emulate Noma, a soon-shuttering three-starred eatery.

Spain's elBulli, repeatedly voted the world's best restaurant before it closed over a decade ago, is set to reopen as a museum dedicated to the culinary revolution it sparked.

Nestled in an isolated cove on Spain's northeastern tip, the museum is dubbed "elBulli1846" a reference to the 1,846 dishes ground-breaking chef Ferran Adria says were developed at the eatery.

Türkiye's first İncili (Pearl) Gastronomy Guide is now available in English, guiding tourists to explore some of the most-try restaurants and eaters to savor the country's delicious cuisine while on their trip.

The famed Danish restaurant Noma which has claimed the title of world's top restaurant several times said on Jan. 9 it will shut down to transform itself into "a pioneering test kitchen" dedicated to "food innovation and the development of new flavors."

When the pandemic struck, top chef Ferran Adria was in the final phases of preparing to reopen his world-famous El Bulli restaurant nine years after it closed.     

Although the rest of the world ground to a halt, this highly-decorated Catalan chef has been using the lockdown to work around the clock to ensure the August opening goes ahead as planned.     

The newest edition of the İncili (Pearly) Gastronomy Guide 2020 was launched on Feb. 25 at a ceremony held at Shangri-La Bosphorus Hotel in Istanbul, unveiling the best restaurants of Turkey.

The guide, which has become prestigious in the gastronomy world within a very short time, has been prepared in a collaboration between daily Hürriyet and porcelain maker Karaca.