Food: The gypsy chef – Hindustan Times
Staff, 2022-12-23 12:30:37,
Michelin-starred David Myers is called the ‘gypsy chef’ for a reason, but not quite for the reason you might think.
Sure, the Los Angeles-born, 48-year-old powerhouse of gastronomic lifting is a nomad at heart, travelling the world, exploring flavours. But the ‘Gypsy’ moniker wasn’t given to him by his fellow chefs. Instead, it was fondly bestowed upon him by a TV crew wondering when they might be able to pin down the non-stop traveller for shooting dates.
True to his sobriquet, Myers was recently in India to launch his restaurant, ADRIFT Kaya, featuring izakaya-style modern Japanese cuisine (informal bar food), at the JW Marriott Aerocity in Delhi, where sushi dishes and the omakase are a big hit.
The Delhi ADRIFT is the latest of Myers’s restaurants around the world, each of which focusses on the cuisines and food styles he discovered on his travels through Japan, Cambodia, Vietnam, Australia, Switzerland, Dubai—too many to list. The food at each restaurant is based on his personal takes on various regional cuisines, and he uses the flavours and ingredients he picked up on his travels to craft an assortment of winning ideas. Right now, for example, he has his eye on the tandoor, probably wondering how to incorporate this very Indian cooking technique in his repertoire.
“We already cook over bincho-tan (white charcoal, typically used in Japanese cooking),” he muses. “But I would love to…
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