In today’s episode, Antoine Abou-Samra welcomes Ursula Bittner, economic expert at Greenpeace CEE and founder of Saubere Hände - Stoppt Korruption. SPECIAL GUEST BIO Ursula Bittner is an economic expert at Greenpeace CEE working on democracy, compliance, civil society, Greenwashing and also on trade, supply chains, agriculture and biodiversity. She holds a degree in International Development from the University of Vienna, a MBA degree specialised in general management of the California Lutheran University, US and a degree from the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. 10 years ago she worked for a soya-food company before she founded together with a colleague an association for a sustainable European protein supply. She worked there for 8 years as the General Secretary. During that period she also managed the Austrian Soy Association, an association combining Austrian soy-food companies. In 2021 she founded the Initiative Saubere Hände - Stoppt Korruption to fight against corruption in Austria. Bittner advocates a liberal democracy, a strong civil society and for sustainable agriculture, and the protection of our planet. Thank you for listening! Don't forget to subscribe to/follow our podcast. You can also follow us on our different platforms: https://www.instagram.com/atablefortwo.live https://www.youtube.com/@atablefortwo https://www.facebook.com/atablefortwo.live https://www.linkedin.com/company/atablefortwo/

In today’s episode, Antoine Abou-Samra welcomes Anissa Helou, chef, food writer, journalist, and photographer (Italy & UK) SPECIAL GUEST BIO Anissa Helou (www.anissas.com) is a chef, food writer, journalist, broadcaster, and consultant focusing on the cuisines and culinary heritage of the Middle East, Mediterranean and North Africa, and most recently the Islamic world. Born and raised between Beirut, Lebanon, and Mashta el-Helou, Syria, she knows the Mediterranean as only a well-traveled native can. Ms. Helou is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks including Feast, Food of the Islamic World; Sweet Middle East, Levant, The Fifth Quarter, An Offal Cookbook; Modern Mezze; Savory Baking from the Mediterranean; Mediterranean Street Food; Café Morocco; and Lebanese Cuisine, which was a finalist for the prestigious Andre Simon awards and chosen as one of the Los Angeles Times’ favorite books in 1998. Lebanese Cuisine remains the classic and most comprehensive work on this increasingly popular cuisine. The Fifth Quarter, An Offal Cookbook; Modern Mezze; and Mediterranean Street Food have received Gourmand World Cookbook awards. The latter was included in Food & Wine magazine’s selection of the Best of the Best for 2002. Mediterranean Street Food was chosen by Cooking Light magazine as one of the top 100 cookbooks of the last 25 years. Savory Baking from the Mediterranean, was chosen by NPR, The New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and Food & Wine as one of the best cookbooks for 2007 and Levant was chosen as best of the year by several publications including the Observer Food Monthly and Australian Gourmet Traveller. Her new book, Feast: The Food of the Islamic World, was published to great acclaim by Ecco in May 2018 (also published in the UK and Germany) has been short-listed for the very prestigious Art of Eating award. It has also won the James Beard Foundation award in the International category and was short-listed for the IACP awards in the General and International categories. It was also chosen by the New Yorker as one of the 10 best cookbooks of the century so far. She was also the winner of the Foodics Icon Award for Middle East and North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2023. An accomplished photographer and intrepid traveler, Anissa runs culinary tours to various Mediterranean countries, Iran and Central Asia. She also teaches cooking classes. She was the featured chef in the travel/cooking Show, Al Chef Yaktachef (meaning the chef discovers), that was shown on Abu Dhabi TV in 2010. She has also featured as one of the judges/mentors to a team of chefs in Taste Arabia, which aired on Al Nahar TV in Egypt and OSN all over the Arab world and was one of the guest judges in the final of one of the series of Top Chef Arabia. She also recently gave a masterclass and was a guest judge on Masterchef Italia. She was also listed in 2013 in the Arabian Business Magazine as one of the “100 Most Powerful Arab Women” and on the “500 Most Influential Arabs”. Ms. Helou is fluent in French, Arabic, and English and soon to be fluent in Italian as well. (Trapani, Sicily & London, UK) Thank you for listening! Don't forget to subscribe to/follow our podcast. You can also follow us on our different platforms: Instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/atablefortwo.live/ YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@atablefortwo
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In today’s episode, Antoine Abou-Samra welcomes Gemma Bell, Founder - Gemma Bell and Company | Trustee - Rare Charity, Amos Trust, London (UK)

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Gemma Bell set up her agency Gemma Bell and Company in 2011 after a decade working front of house and back of house in restaurants and hotels - from Marco Pierre White’s notable Mayfair restaurant Mirabelle to Ian Schrager’s St Martins Lane and Sanderson hotels.

The London agency now offers a range of services including PR, Marketing and Creative, Partnerships and Projects, while clients include St. JOHN, Fortnum & Mason, Dishoom, Padella, The Peninsula London and Angela Hartnett, to name just a few.

Gemma is co-founder of #CookForSyria, #CookForIran and #CookForPalestine, is contributor to AHotelLife.com, was included in the Evening Standard’s Progress 1000 most influential Londoners of 2019 and has been included in Code Hospitality’s 100 Most Influential Women for the last four years. Gemma is on the board of trustees for two charities, Amos Trust and Rare Charity.

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In today’s episode, Antoine Abou-Samra welcomes Sarah Betcher - Documentary Filmmaker, Owner Farthest North Films and Wisdom Keeper Media.

SPECIAL GUEST BIO Sarah Betcher is a documentary filmmaker that specializes in showcasing indigenous knowledge and ways of life and also helps bridge communication with western scientists and local indigenous communities and Elders participating in collaborative projects. She has been producing films across Alaska in some of the most remote locations on earth for the last decade. Sarah has produced over 80 films and are available to view online, various TV networks, Hawaiian Airlines, and international and state museums including American Museum of Natural History, British Museum, Carrie M. McLain Memorial Museum, Anchorage Museum and Museum of the North. Sarah owns Farthest North Films and Wisdom Keeper Media and she provides services such as directing, filming, scripting, editing, narration writing and recording in English and other languages, captioning, dubbing, research and co-writing grants. Her films can be seen on her website at www.farthestnorthfilms.com.

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Listen to the "The World in a Wineglass" by Ray Isle review. I gave the book a 5-star rating.

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In today’s episode, Antoine Abou-Samra welcomes Ray Isle, Executive Wine Editor, Food & Wine, and Wine & Spirits Editor, Travel + Leisure. SPECIAL GUEST BIO Ray Isle is the longtime executive wine editor for Food & Wine, as well as the wine and spirits editor for Travel + Leisure. His writing has also appeared in Departures, Wine & Spirits, Time, the Washington Post, and many other publications. He has won the IACP Award for Narrative Beverage Writing three times, the American Food Journalists Award for Beverage Writing, and the North American Travel Journalists Association Gold Award, and has been nominated three times for a James Beard Award in Beverage Writing. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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In today’s episode, Douglas McMaster, Chef at Silo London talks to host Antoine Abou-Samra about Silo London, The Zero-Waste Blueprint, and his Visionary Approach to Sustainability. SPECIAL GUEST BIO Douglas began his career in 2003 at Winteringham Fields, a then two Michelin-starred restaurant. From there, he moved to London to work at Fergus Henderson’s ST. JOHN, which he credits as forming the foundation of his career. Following ST. JOHN, Douglas spent the next 2 years doing stages at dozens of different restaurants around the world in restaurants including Heston Blumenthal’s renowned The Fat Duck and two Michelin-starred Noma in Copenhagen.   In 2011, Douglas launched pop-up restaurant, Wasted, in Sydney and Melbourne, successfully testing his zero-waste concept by serving food that would have otherwise been wasted in the name of fine dining.   Douglas returned to the UK and motivated by the goal to create the world’s first zero-waste restaurant, opened Silo in Brighton in 2014 at the age of 26. With produce delivered ‘package free’, flour milled on site and compost machines turning scraps and trimmings into compost, Silo achieved its zero-waste goal. In October 2019, Douglas moved Silo to The White Building in London in a partnership with CRATE Brewery.    Throughout his career, Douglas has picked up numerous awards and accolades; in 2014 he won the ‘BBC Young Chef of the Year Award’ followed by ‘Britain’s Most Innovative Chef’ at the first Young British Foodie awards. Just two years after opening, Silo won the prestigious Observer Food Monthly Award for ‘Britain’s Most Ethical Restaurant’.  In June 2018, Silo also won ‘Britain’s Most Innovative Restaurant’ award at the Craft Guild of Chefs Awards. Most recently, Silo has been shortlisted in the ‘World Restaurant Awards 2019’ for innovation and ethical practice. Thank you for listening! Don't forget to subscribe to/follow our podcast. You can also follow us on our different platforms:

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