A native Dane, Mark Emil Hermansen is the Head of Development at MAD, a Copenhagen based non-profit, founded by chef René Redzepi, with the mission to build a better world through a better meal. Upon graduating from Oxford University with a degree in social anthropology, he joined the team at the Nordic Food Lab, a Copenhagen-based non-profit research institution. At the lab, he headed the…
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Originally from Boston, Arielle holds a PhD from UC Davis, where she was a NSF graduate fellow. Her research focuses on flavor chemistry and cuisine, and collaborating with chefs and other food authorities around the world. Arielle has written and spoken on food and science for a variety of outlets and has worked informally with MAD, noma, and the Nordic Food Lab since 2012. In 2014 she moved to…
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Born in Curitiba, David received a strong education in Jewish values and traditions from his family and as a student at a faith-based school, where he participated in weekly group activities and camps. Exploring the possibility of living in Israel, after turning 18, he spent a year on a kibbutz with a group of forty young Brazilian Jews. There he began working in a kitchen. During this eye-…
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Chido Govera is a farmer, campaigner and educator. Chido is teaching mushroom cultivation to hundreds of people in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, South Africa, the Congo and also women from India, orphans from Columbia and many other. At the age of 11 she was elected one of 15 orphans to participate in a fungiculture project financed by ZERI Foundation and realized by the Africa University in Mutare. She…
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David Chang is the chef and founder of Momofuku, which includes restaurants in New York City, Sydney, and Toronto as well as a best-selling cookbook and print journal called Lucky Peach. Momofuku originated in New York City, now home to Momofuku Noodle Bar, Momofuku Ssäm Bar, Momofuku Ko, Momofuku Má Pêche, Booker and Dax, and sister bakery, Momofuku Milk Bar. David opened Momofuku Seiōbo, his…
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