Chef Mythrayie Iyer references Indian history to create a winning dish
1 year, 10 months ago

Chef Mythrayie Iyer references Indian history to create a winning dish

Live Mint  

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 Gurugram via campus placement. Pushing boundaries at Farmlore Back in India, Iyer admits that when Chef Johnson Ebenezer, co-founder and chef patron at Farmlore, asked her to be head chef in 2019, she didn’t feel ready for the authority it would entail. Onwards and upwards Iyer will be in Milan in October for the finals of the San Pellegrino Young Chef Academy Competition.

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Season’s eatings: A Wknd interview with the stellar chef Mythrayie Iyer
3 weeks, 6 days ago

Season’s eatings: A Wknd interview with the stellar chef Mythrayie Iyer

Hindustan Times  

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” …

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