This FREE 1-hour Masterclass, led by Forbes Travel Guide, explores how shifting guest expectations are redefining luxury hospitality standards. Through expert insights and real-world examples, the session provides practical guidance on delivering personalised, consistent, and high-quality service in today’s competitive hospitality landscape.
Sharing food goes beyond the need to satiate and nourish oneself because it involves creating a group of people to do it with. Communicating with dishes will make you satisfied and serene. It is easier to make biscuits that imply the message ‘I love you’ than to write it in a letter. Sharing and cooking are gestures that fill the kitchen with fragrances, that recall childhood memories, the joy of seeing friends, the act of breaking bread and eating it together, of standing in front of the cooker each giving advice on how to prepare the same recipe but in a different way. Love and passion are terms that describe the relationship with food, because cooking is an act of love to be shared.
Learn Pok Pok chef Andy Ricker’s process for faithfully recreating Northern Thai cuisine, and then apply his insight to a favorite cuisine of your own. In this 45-minute class, Andy goes over the importance of the historical and cultural context of dishes, finding native ingredients, utilizing endemic tools and techniques, and even considering the proper means of consumption. As Andy says, this is less of a cooking class and more of an exercise to look deeper into the food that we eat.