United Arab Emirates
Name: Chandramouli Perur Age: 41 Nationality: Indian Country of Residence: United Arab Emirates1. Your Restaurant/Business:
Executive Sous Chef at Fairmont Bab Al Bahr, Abu Dhabi, UAE
2. About Your Kitchen:
Culinary operation includes 7 food and beverage outlets offering different cuisines include Italian, British & International.
3. Your Favorite Chef Works Item:
Monte Carlo Egyptian Cotton Chef Coat (ECCB)- Excellent quality, comfortable to wear and fits to perfection.
4. First Job:
Started as a culinary apprentice in 1990 and moved up the ranks.
5. Your Cookbook:
None.
6. Your Awards:
Best Employee of the Year in 2000
7. Your Cooking Inspiration:
Gary Rhodes - simple and great food. Keeps food what it should be.
8. Your Speciality Dish:
Love to cook tandoori kebabs. Create wild imaginative spice blends and use them for the kebabs.
9. Favorite Dish To Eat:
Simple pasta preparation, keeping it healthy.
10. Weirdest Thing You Ever Ate:
Did not dare try anything 'weird' so far, but sure will do one day.
11. Favorite Ice Cream Flavor:
Vanilla Ice cream
12. Favorite Drink:
Fresh berry smoothies
13. Favorite Wine:
Not a wine drinker, so no favorite.
14. Who Would You Most Like To Cook For:
My Family - my kids enjoy what I cook. They look forward to something new all the time which keeps the creativity going.
15. Who Would You Least Like To Cook For:
For people who cannot appreciate good food and who are not passionate about it.
16. Favorite Things To Do When Not Cooking:
Playing with children, photography
17. Your Latest Project:
No new project at the moment.
18. Favorite City and Why:
Thailand as a whole - Great food, natural beauty and fantastic people.
19. Your Greatest Indulgence:
Foie Gras
20. Your All Time Best Culinary Tip:
Keep the food simple and do not complicate the flavors.