Aargau-born Daniel Humm is head chef and co-owner of New York’s Eleven Madison Park, which has been given top prize in the World’s 50 Best Restaurants for 2017, only the second non-European restaurant to win the award.
Humm started working in kitchens when he was 14 and won his first Michelin star at 24. He became executive chef at Eleven Madison ParkExternal link in 2006 and co-owner in 2011. His prized dish is celery root cooked in a pig’s bladder. The current menu, an 11-course retrospective, costs $295 (CHF297).
There are no criteria for getting on the listExternal link, which has been based since 2002 on a poll of more than 1,000 chefs, food critics and other industry insiders spread across 26 regions. Each member gets ten votes and at least four of those votes have to be for restaurants outside their region.
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