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The Chef JKP Podcast

The Chef JKP Podcast

James Knight-Paccheco celebrates the inspirational stories of people within hospitality, their ups, their downs and everything in between. What does it take to keep up in one of the most competitive, mentally and physically stressful industries in the world? Giving incredible insights and advice to the listeners. For more information go to http://www.chefjkp.com

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69:30

He Started Cooking In His 40s And Reached The Top Of...

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2026/04/16

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Chef JKP Podcast features Chef Alvin Leung, better known around the world as The Demon Chef, for a conversation about reinvention, ambition, creativity, and the unconventional road that took him from engineering into the highest levels of global gastronomy. Chef James Knight-Paccheco sits down with Alvin, founder of Demon Duck, three Michelin-starred restaurateur, chef and MasterChef Canada judge, to unpack his remarkable journey from growing up in Canada...

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118:43

The Chef Who Said No To Engineering And Built An...

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2026/04/09

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Chef JKP Podcast features Saradhi Dakara, chef and co-founder of Stellar Society, for a conversation about food, identity, entrepreneurship, and what it truly takes to build something of your own from the ground up. Chef James Knight-Paccheco sits down with Saradhi to trace a journey that began in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, wound through some of Dubai's most high-profile hotel kitchens, and ultimately led to the founding of Oria and a bold new chapte...

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117:31

The Woman Behind Dubai’s Most Viral Food Series |...

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2026/04/02

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Chef JKP Podcast features Laura Lai Coughlin, one of Dubai’s most recognizable voices in food media, for a conversation about food, storytelling, journalism, and the path that took her from family kitchens to the centre of the city’s dining scene. Chef James Knight-Paccheco sits down with Laura, food writer, presenter, content creator, and host of Best of Dubai, to unpack her journey from growing up with two parents who cooked professionally, to studying ...

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91:39

Can Friendship Survive Building a Restaurant Together?

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2026/03/26

Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Chef JKP Podcast brings together two standout names from Dubai’s dining scene for a conversation about friendship, entrepreneurship, hospitality, and building something meaningful in a competitive market. Chef James Knight-Paccheco is joined by Chef Neha Mishra, founder of Kinoya, and Panchali Mahendra, CEO of Atelier House Hospitality, for a special dual-guest episode centered around their newest venture together, Tezekuri. Neha shares how a dinner at h...

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70:37

What’s Coming This Season and Why It...

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2026/03/19

Send us Fan Mail Season 12 of The Chef JKP Podcast kicks off with a solo episode, bringing you closer to the stories, people, and conversations you’ll hear across the season. With 14 episodes ahead, this season features chefs, operators, and industry voices sharing their journeys, decisions, and defining moments inside hospitality. In this opening episode, Chef JKP reflects on what’s been happening behind the scenes, shares updates from the industry, and answers questions from listeners aro...

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47:05

What People Don’t Understand About Celebrity Chefs

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2026/03/12

Send a text This special collaborative episode of the Chef JKP Podcast brings together three voices from different corners of the culinary world for a conversation about identity, storytelling, and the power of food to connect cultures. Chef James Knight-Paccheco is joined by Tasneem Rawat, host of The Café, and legendary South African celebrity chef Jenny Morris, who joins the conversation remotely. Known across South Africa as “The Giggling Gourmet,” Jenny Morris has spent decades shaping...

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88:53

What MENA 50 Best 2026 really feels like inside...

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2026/02/10

Send a text Front row at Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026, from a night at Mandarin Oriental Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi. There’s a certain kind of tension in the air before the list is revealed. The chefs arrive, the teams gather, the community tightens up, and for a few hours, the region’s hospitality story sits in one room. In this special event episode, Chef JKP speaks to chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and key voices from across the MENA dining scene, capturing t...

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39:38

What MENA 50 Best 2026 really feels like inside...

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2026/02/06

Send us a text Front row at Middle East & North Africa’s 50 Best Restaurants 2026, from a night at Mandarin Oriental Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi. There’s a certain kind of tension in the air before the list is revealed. The chefs arrive, the teams gather, the community tightens up, and for a few hours, the region’s hospitality story sits in one room. In this special event episode, Chef JKP speaks to chefs, restaurateurs, writers, and key voices from across the MENA dining scene, capturin...

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17:01

SNACKS Episode 3: What Great Kitchens Get Right About...

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2026/01/22

Send us a text Welcome to the third episode of the SNACKS series. SNACKS are short, bite-size episodes from the Chef JKP Podcast, built to spotlight the strongest ideas from our most impactful conversations. In SNACKS Episode 3, Chef JKP brings together insights from Björn Frantzén and Regan Hillyer, exploring leadership, mental resilience, and how emotional state influences performance inside high-pressure kitchens. Björn reflects on leadership from lived experience at the highest level of g...

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14:48

SNACKS Episode 2: The Pressure That Comes After...

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2026/01/15

Send us a text Welcome to the second episode of the SNACKS series. SNACKS are short, bite-size episodes from the Chef JKP Podcast, built to spotlight the strongest ideas from our most impactful conversations. In SNACKS Episode 2, Chef JKP brings together insights from Himanshu Saini and Peggy Pui Ki Li, exploring pressure, recognition, and what really changes after success arrives. Himanshu speaks candidly about what Michelin recognition actually feels like. From the uncertainty of awards sea...

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18:41

SNACKS Episode 1: How Great Chefs Built Standards...

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2026/01/08

Send us a text Welcome to the first episode of the SNACKS series. SNACKS are short, bite-size episodes from the Chef JKP Podcast, built to spotlight the strongest ideas from our most impactful conversations. In Snack Episode 1, Chef JKP brings together insights from the legendary chef Pierre Koffmann and Reim El Houni, offering two perspectives on leadership, craft, and visibility in hospitality. Pierre reflects on building excellence in an era before trends, PR, and performance culture. H...

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122:20

Season 11 - Episode 16 - Why Discipline and Curiosity...

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2026/01/01

Send us a text Season 11 closes with a conversation that defines what true creative commitment looks like at the highest level of gastronomy. In this season finale of the Chef JKP Podcast, Chef JKP is joined by Carmen Rueda Hernandez, Executive Pastry Chef of Bricks Dessert and one of the most quietly influential pastry chefs working today. From a small village in the mountains of Spain to the kitchens of El Bulli and The Fat Duck, Carmen’s journey is not driven by titles or shortcuts, but ...

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103:00

Season 11 - Episode 15 - A Christmas Special on Food,...

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2025/12/25

Send us a text Season 11 closes with the annual festive conversation that has become a tradition on the Chef JKP Podcast. In this Christmas special, Chef JKP welcomes back two of Dubai’s most respected food writers, Courtney Brandt and Liam Collins, for an unfiltered year-end conversation on everything that shaped hospitality, dining, and food culture in 2025. From Michelin milestones and major restaurant openings to media responsibility, service standards, awards fatigue, and the reality b...

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108:07

Season 11 - Episode 14 - What It Takes to Launch a...

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2025/12/18

Send us a text Season 11 continues with conversations that explore the forces shaping hospitality beyond the kitchen. In this episode, Chef JKP sits down with Georgie Woollam Edwards, Founder of Katch International, a London and Dubai based PR and experiential agency that has helped shape some of the region’s most influential restaurant and hotel launches. Georgie’s journey moves from early years in theatre and media to studying culture, storytelling, and communication, before building a ca...

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87:39

Season 11 - Episode 13 - How Early Food Memories...

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2025/12/11

Send us a text Season 11 continues with a story built on discipline, precision and a chef who believes great food comes from craft, culture and the people you grow with. Alex Dilling grew up between London and California, splitting his childhood between home-cooked food, travel, music and skateboarding. Cooking was not the plan until it became the only thing that made sense. From culinary school in London to the demanding Michelin kitchens of New York, Alex built his career inside some of t...

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112:18

Season 11 - Episode 12 - The Woman Behind the Food...

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2025/12/04

Send us a text Season 11 continues with a story shaped by culture, trade, and a woman who believes food can create understanding in ways politics never can. Victoria Hassani grew up inside her family’s restaurant on the Jersey shore. Breakfast crowds, seafood dinners, a deli, an ice cream shop and a childhood built around menus, ingredients, cost control and hospitality. Her earliest memories were not hobbies or weekend activities. They were food memories. She later studied music, moved to ...

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123:39

Season 11 - Episode 11 - How A Blog, A Camera, and A...

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2025/11/27

Send us a text Season 11 continues with a story shaped by culture, curiosity, and a woman who sees food as memory, craft, and connection. Leen Al Zaben grew up between Jordanian Bedouin hospitality and the fresh, seasonal cooking of her grandmother’s kitchen. Big salads, olive oil, Friday breakfasts, and long family tables. Those early moments became the foundation of her palate and the way she understands flavor. Her path was never straight. She studied business, tried multiple careers, mo...

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115:57

Season 11 - Episode 10 - How Two Engineers Built...

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2025/11/20

Send us a text Season 11 continues with a story built on pressure, persistence, and two people who refused to settle for the careers they were “meant” to have. Dan and Fix spent years in engineering and construction before Carnistore ever existed. Long days on site, managing hundreds of workers, solving problems nonstop, and dealing with deadlines that could cost millions. But the one thing that stayed with both of them was food. Memories from Egypt, home cooking, street food, and the feelin...

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105:20

Season 11 - Episode 9 - What No One Tells You About...

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2025/11/13

Send us a text Season 11 continues with a story that’s as honest as it is inspiring. From a small hawker stall in Singapore to standing on the Michelin stage in Dubai, Chef Akmal Anuar has lived a journey built on discipline, sacrifice, and starting from zero more than once. He didn’t grow up loving food. He grew up watching his parents hustle to feed their community. Cooking came later, through tough kitchens, rejection, and a moment that changed his life at Les Amis. In this episode, Akm...

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75:05

Season 11 - Episode 8 - Can passion take you from...

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2025/11/06

Send us a text Season 11 continues with a story that blends tradition, determination, and the pursuit of flavour. From the heart of Mexico to Dubai’s shores, Chef Sergio Hernández Ruiz has built his career one kitchen and one lesson at a time. Now the Chef de Cuisine at Tamoka, Sergio brings Latin warmth, coastal soul, and bold creativity to every plate. In this episode, he opens up about growing up in a small town, discovering his calling through Iron Chef America, and pushing himself from...

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