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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
Episodes
The Chef JKP PodcastLost His First Pastry Shop - Then Started Over | Karim Bourgi
Send us Fan Mail Karim Bourgi lost the first pastry shop he opened with his family in Lebanon. In this episode of The Chef JKP Podcast, I ask him what it took…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow He Made A Food Video That Got 100 Million Views | Mr. Taster
Send us Fan Mail A photo of a baby octopus got 400 likes. That's how Mr. Taster's journey into food blogging began. International food blogger and entrepreneur…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow She Built A Business From Scratch And Sold It 15 Years Later | Kelly Lundberg
Send us Fan Mail 🏆 THE CHEF JKP PODCAST IS A SIGNAL AWARDS FINALIST! The Chef JKP Podcast has been nominated for the Signal Listener’s Choice Award in Food &…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat Does It Take To Build Something That’s Never Been Done Before? | Chad McGehee
Send us Fan Mail 🏆 THE CHEF JKP PODCAST IS A SIGNAL AWARDS FINALIST! The Chef JKP Podcast has been nominated for the Signal Listener’s Choice Award in Food &…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy Great Food Alone Won’t Save A Restaurant | Renata Messarra & Alexander Suski
Send us Fan Mail 🏆 THE CHEF JKP PODCAST IS A SIGNAL AWARDS FINALIST! We’ve been nominated for the Signal Listener’s Choice Award in Food & Drink, and we need…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy Food Bloggers Need To Stop Calling Everything “The Best” | David Marino
Send us Fan Mail How does an Italian American raised on Sunday spaghetti become a Farsi-speaking food blogger in Dubai? David Marino, known online as David…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy Getting Rejected By A Restaurant Changed Everything | Lidija Abu Ghazaleh
Send us Fan Mail How does one birthday cake turn into a career bringing food, fashion and Dubai’s chefs together? Lidija Abu Ghazaleh shares how her Serbian…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy So Many Restaurant Openings Quietly Fail - And How You Can Avoid It | Colin Hutton
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to understand hospitality from every side of the business? Chef JKP sits down with Colin Hutton, CEO and Founder of Umami…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy This Executive Pastry Chef Thinks Young Chefs Are Moving Too Fast | Trisha Henault Singh(178)
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to build a career when you keep choosing the harder path? Chef JKP sits down with Trisha Henault Singh, Executive Pastry…
The Chef JKP PodcastInside Chef’s Table Festival: Nancy Silverton, Live Fire & 70 of the World’s Best Chefs(177)
Send us Fan Mail From Dubai to Park City, Chef JKP takes the podcast on the road for a special episode from the inaugural Chef’s Table Festival in Utah…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat Michelin Kitchens and Restaurant Ownership Teach You About Success | Rick & Florian(176)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Rick Gonzalez, Executive Chef at The Ritz-Carlton Ras Al Khaimah, Al Wadi Desert, and Florian van Dillen, Head Chef at…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat Happened After Netflix Put Her Dubai Food Business on the Map | Arva Ahmed(175)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Arva Ahmed, Co-Founder of Frying Pan Adventures, for a conversation about food, storytelling, entrepreneurship, and…
The Chef JKP PodcastHe Moved to Dubai at 19 With No Job. Here’s What Happened Next | Greg Wright(174)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Greg Wright, Co-Founder of Food People and Project People, for a conversation about recruitment, entrepreneurship, the…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy the Best Talent Managers Never Want to Be Famous | Karin Drane(173)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Karin Drane, founder of Curveball Events & Talents, one of the region's leading event and talent management companies…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy the Best Food Writers Never Make Themselves the Story | Paul Clifford(172)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Paul Clifford, a journalist and editor who has spent more than a decade covering the Middle East's hospitality…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy Most Young Chefs Ruin Their Careers by Moving Too Fast | Nicolas Lambert(171)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Nicolas Lambert, Senior Executive Pastry Chef at Four Seasons Dubai and one of the most respected names in modern…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat Really Makes Someone Influential? | Season 13 Begins(170)
Send us Fan Mail Season 13 of The Chef JKP Podcast is built around one idea: influence. Across 15 episodes, chefs, founders, journalists, operators, and…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat Happens When The Service Ends And Real Life Begins?(169)
Send us Fan Mail This episode is different. Joining him is the person who knows him better than anyone else, his wife, Maria Knight-Paccheco. What begins as a…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow A Phone Call Led Ariana Bundy Back To Dubai | Arian Bundy (E168)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Ariana Bundy, chef, author, television presenter, and founder of Ariana's Persian Kitchen at Atlantis The Royal Dubai…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat The Kitchen Taught him About Leadership | Glen Ballis (E167)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Glen Ballis, chef, restaurateur, and one of the most influential figures in modern hospitality. Glen shares his…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy He Left Oil & Gas for Champagne | Ben Kouider (E166)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP sits down with Ben Kouider, Founder of Champavin. Ben shares how he went from engineering and oil and gas to building a business…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow CUPBOP Took Korean Street Food Global | Dok Kwon & Junghun Song (E165)
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to build a Korean street food brand from a used food truck into a global restaurant business? Chef JKP sits down with Dok…
The Chef JKP PodcastThis Woman Fought 22 Years for Water | Angie Pajak (E164)
Send us Fan Mail What happens when the conversation about water goes far beyond what we drink? Chef JKP sits down with Angie Pająk, CEO of Greentech by…
The Chef JKP PodcastHe Became A Chef At 15 To Buy Football Shoes | Shehab Medhat (E163)
Send us Fan Mail What does it take to turn pressure into purpose before the age of 26? Chef JKP sits down with Shehab Medhat, Chef of Savryn Restaurant in…
The Chef JKP PodcastThe Hospitality Fixer Who Knows Why Guests Don’t Come Back | Samuel Graham (E162)
Send us Fan Mail What happens when someone who once worked underground in engineering tunnels ends up shaping some of hospitality’s most iconic guest…
The Chef JKP PodcastThe Rise of Indian Food with Himanshu Saini and Liam Collens (E161)
Send us Fan Mail What changes when a three Michelin star restaurant becomes a book? In this episode, Chef JKP sits down with Himanshu Saini and Liam Collens…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy Do Some People Never Stop Chasing Food Stories? | Tiffany Eslick (E160)
Send us Fan Mail What starts with olives on a kitchen counter becomes a life built around food, travel, stories, and bringing people to the table. Chef JKP…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat a Life in Storytelling Really Looks Like | Keith Dallison (E159)
Send us Fan Mail This episode of the Chef JKP Podcast steps outside the kitchen and into the world of storytelling, with actor, voiceover artist, and video…
The Chef JKP PodcastHe Started Cooking In His 40s And Reached The Top Of Fine Dining (E158)
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…
The Chef JKP PodcastThe Chef Who Said No To Engineering And Built An Empire Instead (E157)
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…
The Chef JKP PodcastThe Woman Behind Dubai’s Most Viral Food Series | Laura Lai Coughlin (E156)
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…
The Chef JKP PodcastCan Friendship Survive Building a Restaurant Together? | Neha Mishra and Panchali Mahendra (E155)
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…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat’s Coming This Season and Why It Matters....Season 12 Begins...(E154)
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…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat People Don’t Understand About Celebrity Chefs | Tasneem Rawat and Jenny Morris (E153)
Send us Fan Mail This special collaborative episode of the Chef JKP Podcast brings together three voices from different corners of the culinary world for a…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat MENA 50 Best 2026 really feels like inside Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi (E152)
Send us Fan Mail 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…
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What Great Kitchens Get Right About Leadership (E151)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the third episode of the SNACKS series. SNACKS are short, bite-size episodes from the Chef JKP Podcast, built to spotlight the…
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The Pressure That Comes After Michelin Recognition (E150)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the second episode of the SNACKS series. SNACKS are short, bite-size episodes from the Chef JKP Podcast, built to spotlight the…
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How Great Chefs Built Standards Before Visibility Mattered (E149)
Send us Fan Mail Welcome to the first episode of the SNACKS series. SNACKS are short, bite-size episodes from the Chef JKP Podcast, built to spotlight the…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhy Discipline and Curiosity Matter More Than Talent in the Kitchen | Carmen Rueda Hernandez (E148)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 closes with a conversation that defines what true creative commitment looks like at the highest level of gastronomy. In this season…
The Chef JKP PodcastChristmas Special on Food, Hospitality, and What Really Mattered This Year (E147)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 closes with the annual festive conversation that has become a tradition on the Chef JKP Podcast. In this Christmas special, Chef JKP…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat It Takes to Launch a Restaurant in Today’s Hospitality World | Georgie Woollam Edwards (E145)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with conversations that explore the forces shaping hospitality beyond the kitchen. In this episode, Chef JKP sits down…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow Early Food Memories Shaped Path to the Michelin World | Alex Dilling (144)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story built on discipline, precision and a chef who believes great food comes from craft, culture and the people…
The Chef JKP PodcastThe Woman Behind the Food Brands Taking Over the Middle East | Victoria Hassani (E143)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story shaped by culture, trade, and a woman who believes food can create understanding in ways politics never can…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow A Blog, A Camera, and A Leap of Faith Led Leen Al Zaben to 50 Best | Leen Al Zaben (E142)
Send us Fan Mail 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…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow Two Engineers Built Dubai’s Favourite Meat Brand | Dan & Fix (E141)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story built on pressure, persistence, and two people who refused to settle for the careers they were “meant” to…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat No One Tells You About Building a Restaurant in Dubai | Akmal Anuar (E140)
Send us Fan Mail 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…
The Chef JKP PodcastCan passion take you from Mexico’s street food to Dubai’s fine dining ? Sergio Hernandez Ruiz (E139)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story that blends tradition, determination, and the pursuit of flavour. From the heart of Mexico to Dubai’s shores…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow Chef Fabrice Rosso Earned Qatar’s First Michelin Star (E138)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story built on precision, passion, and perseverance. From the south of France to the heart of Doha, Chef Fabrice…
The Chef JKP PodcastHow a Family Business Became a Global Cookbook | Joan Tuaño Rumsey (E137)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a story that brings together food, family, and fearless creativity. When her mom once suggested turning her…
The Chef JKP PodcastWhat It Takes to Lead Pastry at Atlantis The Royal Dubai (E136)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with an inspiring story that blends precision, passion, and pastry in the most beautiful way. From cycling through snow at…
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Do Chefs Need to Suffer to Create Great Food? | Chef Thinus Van Der (E135)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with another remarkable story of resilience, flavor, and fire featuring Chef Thinus Van Der, Culinary Director 99 Sushi…
The Chef JKP PodcastDoes Dubai Really Need Another Fine Dining Restaurant | Solemann Haddad (E134)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with another powerful voice in food: Solemann Haddad, Head Chef and Owner of Moonrise in Dubai. At just 26, Solemann…
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Is There Really Nothing New You Can Do With a Potato? | RJ Harvey (E133)
Send us Fan Mail Season 11 continues with a very special guest: RJ Harvey, Culinary Director at Potatoes USA. RJ is a walking encyclopedia of potato knowledge…
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Season 11 Begins | Chef JKP on Updates, Q&A and Life in Hospitality (E132)
Send us Fan Mail Chef JKP AKA James Knight-Paccheco gives a warm welcome to Season 11. For the first time the season is extended to 16 episodes, and in this…
The Chef JKP PodcastSeason Finale 📣 Inside Time Out Market with the Team Behind the Magic (E131)
Send us Fan Mail We saved the best for last - go behind the scenes of Time Out Market Dubai with the powerhouses shaping the city’s food culture!Recorded live…
The Chef JKP PodcastCan Dubai Compete with Global Food Capitals? (E130)
Send us Fan Mail What’s fueling Dubai’s food revolution - street eats, Michelin stars, or the influencers in between?In this live episode of the Chef JKP…
The Chef JKP PodcastHattem Mattar - The Man Behind Dubai’s Most Talked-About BBQ (E129)
Send us Fan Mail How does a backyard barbecue turn into a White House invitation?In this episode of the Chef JKP Podcast, recorded live from Time Out Market…
The Chef JKP PodcastReif Othman - The Chef Behind Dubai’s Viral Toilet Roll Cake (E128)
Send us Fan Mail Live from Time Out Market Dubai, James Knight-Paccheco sits down with one of the city’s most daring culinary innovators: Chef Reif…
The Chef JKP PodcastFrom a DM to Dubai: How to build a Culinary Phenomenon (E127)
Send us Fan Mail What happens when a powerhouse entrepreneur DMs a Michelin-trained chef… and together they rewrite Dubai’s culinary playbook?Live from Time…
The Chef JKP PodcastThe Family Business, Boundaries, & The Mother of Dragons (E126)
Send us Fan Mail What happens when family, tradition, and passion come together to create a culinary legacy?Live from Time Out Market Dubai, this episode of…