Monica Galetti: Chef, Restaurateur and TV Presenter
Desert Island Dishes
Desert Island Dishes
4.8 • 780 Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2019
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
My guest today is Monica Galetti.
Monica is a chef, a restaurant owner, Masterchef The Professionals Judge, and TV presenter for which she travels the world along with food critic Giles Coren for the program Amazing Hotels.
She has recently opened her first restaurant Mere with her husband David. Before that she was senior sous chef at two Michelin starred restaurant Le Gavroche with Michel Roux Jr. Importantly she was the first woman to hold such a senior position at the restaurant.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Margie Nomura and welcome to the Desert Island Dishes podcast. This is the podcast where every week I ask my guest to choose their seven desert island dishes. These range from finding out about the dish that most reminds them of their childhood, the best dish they've ever eaten, and of course, the last dish they would choose to eat before being cast |
| 0:22.7 | off to the desert island. I hope you're all well and that you've had a lovely week. I'm so happy |
| 0:28.5 | to tell you that this week's episode of Desert Island dishes is brought to you in partnership |
| 0:33.5 | with San Pellegrino and more specifically their young chef competition. |
| 0:38.8 | San Pellegrino is a brand that has long been associated with fine dining. |
| 0:43.5 | And as part of this, they're on a mission to nurture the future of gastronomy, which is what |
| 0:48.4 | this competition is all about. |
| 0:50.7 | The San Pellegrino Young Chef Competition looks to recruit the world's most talented emerging young chefs to compete on a global stage. |
| 0:59.3 | It's open to any chef under the age of 30 who's passionate about cooking and looking to reach the next level of their career. |
| 1:07.3 | Maybe that's you or it might be someone you know, one of your friends, or someone you work with. |
| 1:13.5 | It's a global competition with 50 countries competing to find the best young chef in the world. |
| 1:19.8 | Make it through to the semifinals in London, and you'll get the chance to cook your signature dish for a panel of acclaimed chefs. |
| 1:27.1 | Make it through to the global final, and you'll travel to Milan to cook your signature dish for a panel of acclaimed chefs. Make it through to the global final, |
| 1:29.6 | and you'll travel to Milan to cook for the panel of esteemed seven sages, |
| 1:34.9 | who've previously included Massimo Bouturo, Joan Rooker, and Brett Graham. |
| 1:40.5 | Entries are only open until April the 30th, |
| 1:43.3 | but it's really easy to apply. |
| 1:45.1 | You just go to www. |
| 1:48.0 | San Pellegrino Youngchef.com forward slash E.N. forward slash application. |
| 1:53.7 | And you just upload your CV, your signature dish, along with some photos. |
| 1:58.2 | You've got nothing to lose by entering, so why not have a go? |
| 2:02.3 | And you never know, |
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