The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

 I love to share my experience and know - how to the younger generation and had the absolute pleasure to host a 2-day masterclass for college students from different parts of Africa during the All African culinary competition at BOMA college 2026.  It was great fun to meet these young professionals and to hear their background and future dreams, the cultural exchange is super fun and interesting, and I feel sometimes like Stanley looking for Livingstone. Even my boss was visiting for some lunch!! I showed some ideas that they can take with and develop their own way with whole chicken and whole salmon, some small tips and tricks that are useful and to think about when they plan for the next competition, unfortunately the level of teachers in 3 world countries are on absolute bottom level so the outcome and what they present are on extremely low standard, the so called professors are badly experienced them self so how will they be able to share anything with anybody? (FYI the sc...

 I just realized how long it's been since my last posting, panic mode when you realize how fast time is flying and that I moved to Nairobi Kenya 1,5 years ago, what a move! Arab mentality to Kenyan one, so different but still in Africa, from loud, car honking, shouting, fighting, crying, belly dancing to calm, very quiet, hustling and bustling, absolutely no traffic rules and not fear of getting run over,  people in Kenya are brave but stupid in traffic, a very cool move but I still preferer Cairo that is much more cultured and civilized when it comes to restaurants, theaters, opera and joy the vivre in general, but Nairobi have the animal parks, nature and much nicer weather year round, Nairobi is on 1800 meter over the ocean so it's very green and very nice temperature control, no AC needed, but on the other hand the traffic is fiercely brutal and crazy, no one have a driving license here and if they do the simply don't follow any rules and the police don't give a dam...