What does it take to keep a culinary dream alive? Then, last year, an unexpected win: Iyer competed in the San Pellegrino Young Chef Academy competition and was declared Best Young Chef for Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The dish reframed and refined her perspective on food, and she decided she didn’t want to spend “these still-pivotal years” …
When 3 of the 4 awards were announced at the Regional Finals of the San Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition in Cape Town earlier this year, 29-year-old Mythrayie S Iyer, Head Chef, Farmlore, Bengaluru says she gave up, thinking the odds were not in her favour. Building up to head chef Iyer secured a placement at ITC Grand Bharat in …
