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Windstar Announces Chefs for 2023 James Beard Foundation-Themed Cruises

by Katie Skrzek

Oct 7, 2022

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Windstar Cruises recently announced its chef lineup for its series of culinary cruises for 2023: Jerome Grant, Ayesha Nurdjaja and Tracy Chang. Windstar is the official cruise line of the James Beard Foundation. Each of the three themed cruises includes two on-board cooking demonstrations plus four dishes by the visiting chef at a hosted dinner with wine pairings. Each chef also leads a market tour.

 

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Chef Ayesha Nurdjaja, executive chef at Shuka and sister restaurant Shukette in New York City, joins the Mediterranean sailing. Nurdjaja is a 2022 James Beard award nominee for Best Chef: New York State. Nurdjaja frequently travels to the Aegean Sea and looks forward to featuring the region’s best flavors on the cruise.

 

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James Beard award-nominated chef Tracy Chang is the chef and owner of PAGU restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The restaurant combines Spanish and Japanese cuisines with tapas-style dishes. Chang co-founded two nonprofit initiatives during the COVID-19 pandemic to provide essential worker communities with food and groceries. Chang looks forward to celebrating her grandmother’s culinary legacy on the cruise.

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