The Chefs' Manifesto

Episode 1 of Chefs' Manifesto Podcast Season 3 – the Crop Series – provides insights and stories on the prolific tuber potato. The history of this crop is discussed from country-specific perspectives, with Ireland represented by Chef Janice Bracken and Peru by Chef Diego Oka. The chefs explore how to best prepare and cook potato, to preserve its nutrients, make use of its wide diversity, but also how to present them in an attractive and healthy way on the plate. Alejandro Argumedo, Andes Amazon Lead for the Swift Foundation, shares his thoughts at the end of the episode on the benefits of potato for alimentation and agriculture.

The last episode in the second Chefs' Manifesto Podcast Season is a collage of inspiring chefs' voices reflecting on the future of the hospitality industry, how chefs can stay strong and how they can build back better:

💪 Chef Peggy Chan advocates for building more resilient food systems & for creating stronger supply chains

🤝 Chef Kamilla Seidler highlights the importance of collaboration

🙌 Chef Mark Graham talks about team engagement & spirit

👉 Chef Manal Alalem highlights the particular challenges the pandemic posed for women in the Middle east, and during Ramadan

👏 Chef Suzanne Barr encourages to amplify voices of vulnerable & marginalised communities & keep the connection to food!

In the third episode of this season, Chef Tom Hunt chats with Chef JJ Johnson in NY, Chef Natalia Restrepo in Chile and Prof. Corinna Hawkes in London about the inequalities in our food systems, which have been exposed by the COVID19 crisis.

The Podcast guests highlight:

🇬🇧 The positives of food system transformation in innovation;

🇨🇴 The voices of indigenous peoples and the impacts of the pandemic in Latin America and;

🇺🇸 The #BLM Movement and neighbourhood initiatives helping those in need in NYC

In Episode 2 of the second Chefs' Manifesto Podcast season, we focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on food production from the perspective of chefs. Chef Tom Hunt chats with Brazilian Chef Bela Gil about her idea of creating a map to match farmers with consumers, with Chef Cristina Bowerman from Italy who highlights the context and effects of unexpected restaurant closures and discusses how chefs can adapt, and with UK Chef Merlin Labron Johnson who explains his restaurant's new model of customers pre-paying for their seat and menu.

In the first Episode of Chefs' Manifesto Podcast Season 2 with 'Chefs' Voices on COVID-19', Host Tom Hunt chats to Thai Chef Deepanker Khosla, Indian Chef Radhika Khandelwal and Expert David Nabarro, WHO Special Envoy on COVID-19 preparedness and response, to create an overview of what has happened over the last months and what consequences it will bring to chefs and the hospitality industry as a whole.

Teaser Season 2 by The Chefs' Manifesto

In the last episode of Season 1 of the Chefs' Manifesto Podcast, Chef Tom Hunt chats to South African Chef Lorna Maseko, British Chef Arthur Potts Dawson and Alyson Greenhalgh-Ball, Global Lead for Health and Wellbeing at Kellogg about how to ensure nutritious food that is accessible & affordable for all!

In this Bonus Episode of the Chefs' Manifesto Podcast with a UK-focus, Anchor Chef Tom Hunt chats with Professor Tim Lang, the UK's leading food policy expert, about how our food systems have been affected by COVID-19, about their strengths and weaknesses and about how we can support them. Listen in!

Have you always wondered what cooking in the White House is like and what former President Obama's favourite meal was? Want to learn about food tourism in Haiti? Subscribe & listen to the conversation with Barack Obama's former Chef Sam Kass about his vision for our #foodfuture & with women's advocate & tourism promoter Chef Natacha Gomez on her work in Haiti!

In Episode 7 of the Chefs' Manifesto Podcast, Host Chef Tom Hunt is speaking with Chef Chantelle Nicholson, Chef Megha Kohli and Chef David Johansson about the importance of championing plant-based ingredients and about making vegetables, beans or pulses the centre of your dishes!