After rocketing to fame with his avant-garde desserts, Will Goldfarb abruptly leaves New York for a new start in Bali, land of fresh cocoa and vanilla.

Drawing on her family's rich barbacoa tradition, Cristina Martínez has become a Philadelphia food star and a voice for undocumented immigrants.

At Istanbul's Çiya, food anthropologist Musa Dagdeviren meticulously re-creates regional Turkish dishes in a bid to keep them from going extinct.

Frustrated by the dearth of authentic Thai cuisine, Bo Songvisava revives bold, complex local flavours in her sustainable Bangkok restaurant.

After years as the creative director of El Bulli, innovator Albert Adrià now presides over an amusement park of genre-bending Barcelona eateries.

Inside a former segregated bus station in Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A., Mashama Bailey pays homage to history as she puts a new spin on Southern food traditions.

Charismatic Tuscan butcher Dario Cecchini grew up eating every part of the cow but steak, and now he's out to change how the world thinks about meat.

On her unlikely journey from Calcutta tomboy to celebrated London chef, Asma Khan has shattered conventions and created new opportunities for women.

Sean Brock is obsessive, a perfectionist and a workaholic. His dedication to reviving lost flavours reinvigorated Southern cuisine and nearly destroyed him.