Don't trust a fat chef. The gourmand who ate dishes swimming in butter is a hero of the past. Today we know better: we know the impact of food on our bodies and have discovered new cooking techniques to achieve higher levels of sensory pleasures without compromising our health.
Trust someone who looks healthy to do the cooking for you. As with all skilled chefs, he will have the same goal of serving a feast for your palate. But his personal practice of healthy eating will make him realise the horror of the unhealthy practices used in kitchens to cut corners.
Practices like adding a block of butter to a serving of gnocchi, which has been left standing for five minutes, to make it moist again. The healthy chef is likely to put additional effort into managing his time, thus avoiding the extra fat. No good chef will ever serve something he would not eat himself. And I like to eat what a healthy person eats.
The new generation of top chefs looks healthy, not fat. I travel extensively to visit and intern in exciting restaurants worldwide, so I can master new styles and develop new ideas. Whenever I find excellence, there is a beautiful person behind it: Luca in Tokyo, Benedetta in Puglia, Yuval in Tel Aviv, Peter in Macedonia.
Real beauty is looking healthy, fit and full of energy. This can be achieved by everyone. It does require moderate exercise; but most of all, it calls for healthy eating.
Food is central to us, because we are what we eat. The beautiful are never those who eat sad food or tasteless calorie-restricted dietary meals. They are never those who cling to the latest diets. Healthy-looking people always follow traditional diets. They eat everything, but in moderation.
