After just two hours at this year’s Taste of Dubai, it’s clear you’ll need two full days here to work your way through all the restaurants, vendors, cookery classes and chef’s presentations. This is a food-lovers paradise.
Don’t miss the Electrolux Chef’s Secrets stage (different than the Electrolux Chef’s Theatre). Visitors get to cook along with the host chef in an intimate setting. I cooked with Tim Anderson, the youngest chef ever to win Master Chef UK in 2011. He’s 26 years old now and has recently released a cookbook called Nanban: Japanese Soul Food. Anderson showed us how to make butter-poached scallops with crispy chicken skin and a yuzu chilli-compressed watermelon and cucumber salad (we’ll share the recipe in an upcoming blog!)
I also participated in an interactive, hands-on cookery class at the Kenwood Cookery School where I learnt how to make a stuffed monkfish with Spanish chef Jose Pizarro.
The hands-on cookery classes will run all weekend long. You can catch one of chef Anderson’s remaining 10 classes on Friday and Saturday.
If you’re coming down to Taste of Dubai this weekend, get here early and come hungry.
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