Cooking at the cutting edge

For Adi Ashkenazi, receiving Forbes Israel's “30 under 30” award motivates him to work even harder. The 29-year-old Tel Aviv-based chef, who was recently honored as one of Israel's most promising young entrepreneurs, leaders, and change-makers under the age of 30, says that “It's just one step. My colleagues respect this achievement, but it's not the final thing I would hope for myself. I'm still chasing perfection.”Despite being under 30, Ashkenazi has amassed a great deal of experience working with Michelin-starred chefs at restaurants like Alchemist in Copenhagen, Belcanto, located in Lisbon, and Moshik in Tel Aviv, and specializes in Mediterranean, Asian, Scandinavian, and French cuisines, with a deep focus on molecular techniques.He says that the most important lesson that he learned from training in the top restaurants outside Israel has not only been their modern cuisine, but their systems and methods.