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• Updated: 22/04/2021 - 16:18
Jessical Préalpato talks about the pressures of being labelled the World’s Best Pastry Chef and gender equality within the restaurant industry as she is commissioned to create a special dessert for the France Pavilion at Expo 2020.
French pastry chef, Jessica Préalpato has been commissioned to create a special dessert for Expo 2020 in her role as ambassador to the France Pavilion. Euronews caught up with her at Brasserie Boulud at the Sofitel Dubai the Obelisk as she created her first incarnation of this dish.
Awarded The World’s Best Pasty Chef in 2019, voted by the World’s 50 Best Restaurants, she currently works alongside Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénéé in Paris. An honour she says comes with a certain pressure.
Life as an ex-expat
Two years on and now loving my UK life, I realise that those first few months I was experiencing the phenomenon of ‘reverse culture shock’.
I read up on the little-known topic and discovered that experts say that like expatriation, repatriation has its psychological phases, almost like a grieving process, that come as a surprise. It certainly did for me.
It’s not just feelings of loneliness and homesickness for your foreign experiences that cause a disassociation with ‘home’, it’s the daily practices of your home country that you become out of touch with.
Ex-expat social media sites are full of familiar stories. An Oman expat confesses that when she returned to live in Preston, she turned to alcohol - not available in the Middle East without a licence - as a coping mechanism, and then went teetotal to save her marriage.
• Updated: 15/04/2021 - 17:24
Recognised as a World’s 50 Best Discovery, Trèsind Studio is one of Dubai’s leading fine-dining restaurants. At the helm, Executive Chef Himanshu Saini crafts modern Indian tasting menus using French techniques, hence the portmanteau Trèsind – ‘très’, the French for ‘very’, and ‘Ind’, an abbreviation of Indian.
Chef Himanshu in TresindFree usage
In April 2021, Himanshu won Chef of the Year at the UAE’s What’s On magazine awards, while continuing to grow his global reputation with his ongoing series of four-hand dinners with chefs from Michelin star-winning restaurants around the world. Riccardo Camanini of Italy’s Lido 84 and Ana Ros of Slovenia’s Hisa Franko were the latest luminaries to join him.
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