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The Chef JKP Podcast — 183 episodes

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1

What Happened After Netflix Put Her Dubai Food Business on the Map | Arva Ahmed

2

He Moved to Dubai at 19 With No Job. Here’s What Happened Next | Greg Wright

3

Why the Best Talent Managers Never Want to Be Famous | Karin Drane

4

Why the Best Food Writers Never Make Themselves the Story | Paul Clifford

5

Why Most Young Chefs Ruin Their Careers by Moving Too Fast | Nicolas Lambert

6

What Really Makes Someone Influential? | Season 13 Begins

7

What Happens When The Service Ends And Real Life Begins?

8

How A Phone Call Led Ariana Bundy Back To Dubai | Arian Bundy (E168)

9

What The Kitchen Taught him About Leadership | Glen Ballis (E167)

10

Why He Left Oil & Gas for Champagne | Ben Kouider (E166)

11

How CUPBOP Took Korean Street Food Global | Dok Kwon & Junghun Song (E165)

12

This Woman Fought 22 Years for Water | Angie Pajak (E164)

13

He Became A Chef At 15 To Buy Football Shoes | Shehab Medhat (E163)

14

The Hospitality Fixer Who Knows Why Guests Don’t Come Back | Samuel Graham (E162)

15

The Rise of Indian Food with Himanshu Saini and Liam Collens (E161)

16

Why Do Some People Never Stop Chasing Food Stories? | Tiffany Eslick (E160)

17

What a Life in Storytelling Really Looks Like | Keith Dallison (E159)

18

He Started Cooking In His 40s And Reached The Top Of Fine Dining (E158)

19

The Chef Who Said No To Engineering And Built An Empire Instead (E157)

20

The Woman Behind Dubai’s Most Viral Food Series | Laura Lai Coughlin (E156)

21

Can Friendship Survive Building a Restaurant Together? | Neha Mishra and Panchali Mahendra (E155)

22

What’s Coming This Season and Why It Matters....Season 12 Begins...(E154)

23

What People Don’t Understand About Celebrity Chefs | Tasneem Rawat and Jenny Morris (E153)

24

What MENA 50 Best 2026 really feels like inside Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (E152)

25

What Great Kitchens Get Right About Leadership (E151)

26

The Pressure That Comes After Michelin Recognition (E150)

27

How Great Chefs Built Standards Before Visibility Mattered (E149)

28

Why Discipline and Curiosity Matter More Than Talent in the Kitchen | Carmen Rueda Hernandez (E148)

29

Christmas Special on Food, Hospitality, and What Really Mattered This Year (E147)

30

What It Takes to Launch a Restaurant in Today’s Hospitality World | Georgie Woollam Edwards (E145)

31

How Early Food Memories Shaped Path to the Michelin World | Alex Dilling (144)

32

The Woman Behind the Food Brands Taking Over the Middle East | Victoria Hassani (E143)

33

How A Blog, A Camera, and A Leap of Faith Led Leen Al Zaben to 50 Best | Leen Al Zaben (E142)

34

How Two Engineers Built Dubai’s Favourite Meat Brand | Dan & Fix (E141)

35

What No One Tells You About Building a Restaurant in Dubai | Akmal Anuar (E140)

36

Can passion take you from Mexico’s street food to Dubai’s fine dining ? Sergio Hernandez Ruiz (E139)

37

How Chef Fabrice Rosso Earned Qatar’s First Michelin Star (E138)

38

How a Family Business Became a Global Cookbook | Joan Tuaño Rumsey (E137)

39

What It Takes to Lead Pastry at Atlantis The Royal Dubai (E136)

40

Do Chefs Need to Suffer to Create Great Food? | Chef Thinus Van Der (E135)

41

Does Dubai Really Need Another Fine Dining Restaurant | Solemann Haddad (E134)

42

Is There Really Nothing New You Can Do With a Potato? | RJ Harvey (E133)

43

Season 11 Begins | Chef JKP on Updates, Q&A and Life in Hospitality (E132)

44

Season Finale 📣 Inside Time Out Market with the Team Behind the Magic (E131)

45

Can Dubai Compete with Global Food Capitals? (E130)

46

Hattem Mattar - The Man Behind Dubai’s Most Talked-About BBQ (E129)

47

Reif Othman - The Chef Behind Dubai’s Viral Toilet Roll Cake (E128)

48

From a DM to Dubai: How to build a Culinary Phenomenon (E127)

49

The Family Business, Boundaries, & The Mother of Dragons (E126)

50

The Latino Chef's Takeover (E125)

51

Thai Street Food in Dubai (E124)

52

Pitfire Pizza -and The Secret Sauce (E123)

53

Coffee, Ice Cream & $3,000 Desserts (E122)

54

From Gaggan to Dubai: Chef Prashant’s Culinary Evolution (E121)

55

The Chef JKP Podcast x Time Out Market: Dubai’s Food Scene, Unfiltered (E120)

56

Limited Series with Varlhona ! Chef Khaled (E119)

57

Limited Series with Valrhona ! Carmen and Kelvin (E118)

58

Limited Series with Valrhona ! Olivier, Hadrien and Reif (E117)

59

Limited Series with Valrhona - Guillaume Lafaix General Manager (E116)

60

Limited Series with Varlhona - Brice Konan Ferrand (E115)

61

Regan Hillyer - From Burnout to Global Icon (E114)

62

Forget Everything You Know About Fine Dining! Bjorn Frantzen & Torsten Vildgaard (E113)

63

Jack Jarrott - Screaming Guests, Openings, Live Fire Cooking! (E112)

64

Raj Dagstani - Marmellata (E111)

65

Troy Payne - Crafting Culinary Memories (E110)

66

Hospitality & Headspace with Scott Armstrong (E109)

67

Health Hacks for Hospitality with Michael Canas (E108)

68

Natasha Sideris ! CEO and Founder of Tashas Group (E107)

69

Pallavi Sangtani! The Complex World of Food Writing (E107)

70

Mental Health Special with Dr. Bisi and Dr. Gurveen - Clinical Psychologists (E106)

71

William Drew - Director of Content for the Worlds 50 Best (E105)

72

The Chef JKP Podcast Season 9 - Wellness (E104)

73

SEASON 8 - Episode 12 - Pierre Koffmann - The Original Bear!

74

Pierre Koffmann - The Original Bear (103)

75

Neha Mishra - Kinoya, and a Story of Food !

76

Neha Mishra - Kinoya, and a Story of Food (102)

77

Doxis Bekris - Emirates Flight Catering

78

Doxis Bekris - Emirates Flight Catering (E101)

79

Celebrating 100 Episodes (E100)

80

Fay Economides - From Strategic Analyst to Award Winning Restaurateur (E99)

81

Carmen Landsberg - Capetown to Brunch & Cake (E98)

82

Emma Banks - A Hospitality Powerhouse (E97)

83

2024 Festive Special (E96)

84

Sandy Muirhead - No More Bottles (E95)

85

Bo Songvisava & Dylan Jones

86

Season 8 - Episode 2 - Daniel Birk - Leading Michelin Kitchens !

87

CHEF JKP Podcast Season 8 - Change-makers (E94)

88

SEASON 8 - Change-makers (E93)

89

Reim El Houni - If You're not Visible, You're Invisible

90

Reim El Houni - If You're not Visible, You're Invisible (E92)

91

Chef Shaw Lash - Lila Taqueria and Beyond

92

Chef Shaw Lash - Lila Taqueria and Beyond (E91)

93

Magdalena Orzechowska - The Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sommelier (E90)

94

Magdalena Orzechowska (E89)

95

Alex Augusti - Just Food DXB (E88)

96

Prachi Kulkarni - Pushing Beyond Limits (E87)

97

Kyung Soo Moon - Culinary Director of Sunset Hospitality (E86)

98

A Tribute to Greg Malouf

99

A Tribute to Greg Malouf (E85)

100

Michele Johnson - Pitfire Pizza (E84)

101

David Tapley - Editor in Chief of FACT Magazine (E83)

102

Marwan Sardouk - Cooking in Michelin to Cooking on TV (E82)

103

Luigi Vespero - From Culinary into Service and Hospitality (E81)

104

Mihai Florescu - The Truffle House (E80)

105

Perseverance Works (E79)

106

Omar Shihab - BOCA, Sustainability and Beyond (E78)

107

Panchali Mahendra - CEO of Atelier House Hospitality (E77)

108

Russel Impiazzi - Mentoring The Next Generation of Chef's (E76)

109

Ben Milne - Restaurants to Food Distribution (E75)

110

Dr. Dionysia Angeliki Lyra - Halophytes and Hospitality (E74)

111

Chang Sup Shin - 1004 Gourmet and Beyond (E73)

112

George Lyon - Kitchen Lessons (E72)

113

Judith Cartwright - Understanding Revenue Management (E71)

114

Anand Kumar - The Accidental Chef (E70)

115

Steve Pyle - The CEO of Chef Middle East (E69)

116

Marvin Alballi - The Hospitality Guru (E68)

117

Sustainability Within Hospitality! (E67)

118

Etisalat Beach Canteen - Dubai Food Festival 2024 - Part 2 (E66)

119

Etisalat Beach Canteen - Dubai Food Festival 2024 - Part 1 (E65)

120

Colin Clague - Hard Work Beats Talent (E64)

121

Halil Asar - Hospitality is a Feeling (E63)

122

Kelvin Cheung - Jun's, Fame & Push Ups (E62)

123

Giovanni Papi - Armani, The Burj Khalifa and Michelin (E61)

124

Hadrien Villedieu - From Junk Food to Chez Wam (E60)

125

Kelvin Kelly - Humble Lessons (E59)

126

Alex Stumpf - Chef's, Business and Family! (E58)

127

Govind Shepley - Interior Designers and Chefs are the Same (E57)

128

Tom Allen - Leading Dinner by Heston (E56)

129

Peggy Li - SPS Affinity and Beyond! (E55)

130

Carmine Faravolo - Roots are Important! (E54)

131

Failure Is Your Best Friend! (E53)

132

Christmas Special - Rundown of 2023 and Predictions for 2024! (E52)

133

Himanshu Saini - The World's Most Humble Chef! (E51)

134

Solemann Haddad - Moonrise and Beyond (E50)

135

Claudia De Brito - San Pellegrino 50 Best Restaurants MENA Vice Chair (E49)

136

Nick Alvis - From London Kitchens to the Dubai Dream (E48)

137

Fahim Al Qasimi - Seafood Souq! (E47)

138

Stasha Toncev - The Chief Soul Kitchen Officer! (E46)

139

Liam Collens the Founder of Eat, Go, See (E45)

140

Jason Atherton - The Chef of Chef's (E44)

141

Duncan Fraser Smith - Author, Concept Creator, Visionary (E43)

142

Jean Winter - CEO of Touch - An Inclusive Talent Agency Like No Other! (E42)

143

Tom Arnel - Chef To Managing Director! (E41)

144

Ego, The Chef's Worst Enemy! (E40)

145

Pre-Season Special - The Chefpreneur Reif Othman! (E39)

146

Greg Malouf - The Godfather - Part 2! (E38)

147

Greg Malouf - The Godfather - Part 1! (E37)

148

Ahmed Salih & Bassel Siblini - Meelz! (E36)

149

Sarah Hedley Hymers - Broadcaster, Journalist, and Michelin Explorer! (E35)

150

Michael Desouza - In-Flight Purser to Professional Chef! (E34)

151

Martin Koebke - Obsession (E33)

152

Gregoire Berger - The Perfectionist Chef (E32)

153

The Caviar Spoon (E31)

154

Alannah Francesca - The Accidental Pastry Chef! (E30)

155

Courtney Brandt AKA - A to Zaatar! (E29)

156

Carlos de Garza - 3Fils (E28)

157

Un-sung Heroes (E27)

158

Ramadan 2021 Special - Chef Tim Newton (E26)

159

Ramadan 2021 Special - Chef Mohamad Chabchoul (E25)

160

Conversation with the FOOD SHEIKH (E24)

161

Maria Stevens - The Marketer! (E23)

162

Craig Best - Into Hells Kitchen (E22)

163

Joe Barlett - The Foraging Chef (E21)

164

Sunjeh Raja - I.C.C.A (E20)

165

Giovanni Ledon - Vegas to Dubai! (E19)

166

Luke Garnsworthy - From Chef to CEO (E18)

167

Chef Troy Payne aka - TROTSKIE (E17)

168

Carl Greenslade - The Coach (E16)

169

Robert Stevens - The Viking in the Desert (E15)

170

Hattem Mattar - The Pitmaster (E14)

171

Season 2 - My Kitchen Life by JKP (E13)

172

Samantha Wood aka FOODIVA (E12)

173

Vanessa Bayma - Catering, Consultancy and Events (E11)

174

Homan Ayaso - The Gastronaut (E10)

175

Shane Born - The Cultured Chef (E09)

176

Tjalling van den Burger - Food Waste Warrior (E08)

177

Sahar Parham al Awadhi - 7 Star Chef (E07)

178

Alasdair Hooper - Boutique GM (E06)

179

Simon Ritchie - The Editor (E05)

180

Roberto Segura - From Peru to Dubai (E04)

181

Halil Asar - Master Maitre'D (E03)

182

The Rise of the Take Away Chef (E02)

183

Who is Chef JKP? (E01)