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The people at the pass: who they are, where they came from and what they are cooking next.

Gianluca Gorini's first book, Cucina Radicale, is out
The one-star chef from San Piero in Bagno wrote it with Eugenio Signoroni: 256 pages on his mentors, his Apennine roots and his method, and not a recipe collection.
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Food & Wine names its 2026 Best New Chefs
Fourteen chefs across ten restaurants join the 38th class, unveiled at a New York party that sold public tickets for the first time in the award's history.

Food & Wine opens its Best New Chefs party to the public
For the first time in 38 years, outsiders can buy a $395 ticket to the magazine's Best New Chefs celebration in New York, where past winners cook alongside this year's class.

CHEF:IN Awards debut in Hamburg with seven categories
Germany's first all-women fine-dining awards hold their opening ceremony tonight at Foodlab Hamburg, naming 2026 winners across seven categories from the kitchen to the bar.

Panama hosts the S.Pellegrino Young Chef Latin America final
Fifteen cooks from across the region, including four from Colombia, two from Peru and one from Chile, compete in Panama City from September 27 for a place in Milan's 2027 grand finale.

Craft Guild names its 2026 Graduate Award winners
Winners span the Royal Household, the RAF, Harrods and the House of Commons, in an award that has tracked young UK chefs' careers since 2002.

Daniel Humm opens Humm in Manhattan's West Village
After 25 years at Eleven Madison Park, Humm is opening a wood-fired, weeknight-friendly restaurant of his own on Hudson Street in the West Village.

Michael Wignall cookbook collects 70 dishes from The Angel
The Yorkshire Dales chef's 420-page debut, priced at £65, separates plating photography from working methods in a format aimed at fellow cooks.

First CHEF:IN Awards honour German women chefs on 14 September
Only around 4% of Germany's starred chefs are women. The inaugural ceremony in Hamburg names nominees in seven categories, from head chef to sommelière.

Kwame Onwuachi cookbook All Hours arrives September 22
All Hours: Crazy Good Food for Whatever, Whenever hits shelves September 22, timed to a Resy-hosted night at Lincoln Center Theater that doubles as the book launch.
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