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Natasha Fernandes

 
Natasha Fernandes ( Junior Team)
Arabella Western Cape Hotel and Spa

Natasha graduated at HTA School of Culinary Art and are currently a lecturer at SA Chefs Training and Innovation Academy.

 

 

What is your philosophy on food?
“We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks”
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1831-1891) ‘Lucile’ (1860)
What inspired you to become a chef?
The fact that everyone across the globe can share something common yet so unique and special as food.
Globally, which chef do you admire?
Ferran Adria and Alex Stupak
If you couldn't be a chef, which position would you take up?
I would be a Civil Engineer or a Ballerina
Other than food and cooking, what inspires you?
People and Nature
What was your worst culinary catastrophe?
I forgot flour in a cake for a guests’ birthday cake and took a few hours to realise my mistake.
What is your fondest memory in the kitchen?
Plating and cooking while watching the Southern Right Whales breaching 100m away and teaching my mom to make pasta.
What do you eat for breakfast?
Chocolate