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Menu of Masters 2025: The Series Revealing MENA's Most Guarded Culinary Secrets

The Middle East is a melting pot of flavors, where ancient spice routes meet modern culinary innovation. If you haven’t indulged in our latest Menu of Masters series yet, pick a spoon, you’re in for a flavorful ride!

This series takes you inside the kitchens of some of the region’s most talented chefs, each blending heritage and creativity in their own way. 

In Chef Elie Lteif’s kitchen you’ll get the key to honor traditional flavors while crafting new dishes that feel timeless. In another, you’ll master vegetarian cuisine with Chef Saeed Al Haerki, redefining it with a Mediterranean twist, and proving that plant-based plates can be just as rich and satisfying. 

Guess what, the recipes stretch far beyond MENA. In Thai cuisine, Chef Mohamed Al Okla captures the soul of his homeland in a classic green seafood curry, perfectly balancing salty, sweet, sour, and spicy notes, and gives all the secrets to you. In Italian cuisine, Chef Marco Vigonovo’s “Dell Amore” spaghetti with burrata tells you exactly how to deliver authentic flavor wrapped in emotion and attention to detail.

These are just a few of the masters featured in the series, each chef uncovers more skills, more stories, and more dishes that show why Menu of Masters is a celebration of culinary excellence across MENA and beyond.

Allow this Nestlé Professional series to show you what separates the good from the unforgettable. 

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