As millions around the world do their part to fight the Covid-19 pandemic by staying home and practising social distancing to slow the spread of the disease, more are picking up their pans and cooking at home before sharing their creations online. Professional chefs, too, are rising to the occasion and doing what they do best — cooking in the time of coronavirus. The top toques of MICHELIN-star restaurants around the world like Eric Ripert, Massimo Bottura and Guy Martin are taking to social media during their restaurant downtime to share recipes and videos from their own home kitchens.
Whether you're a novice just getting started or looking to level up behind the stove, indulge in some feel-good home cooking and find some culinary inspiration here.
#MICHELINGUIDEATHOME
Chefs and MICHELIN inspectors alike have contributed their favourite home cooking recipes on the official MICHELIN Guide Instagram under the hashtag #michelinguideathome. You'll find straightforward recipes in easy-to-follow steps, such as Stephanie Le Quellec's (La Scene, two stars) Green Pea Spaghetti With Iberian Ham, Gordon Ramsay's (Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, three stars) Marinara Sauce and an anonymous inspector's Citrus Marmalade, complete with cute illustrations and helpful metric conversions.
Recipe Videos On the MICHELIN Guide's social media and digital websites
A treasure trove of recipes, techniques, tips and tricks from chefs of MICHELIN restaurants around the world are available on the MICHELIN Guide's social media and online websites. Learn to make the traditional Cantonese sweet treat of "smiling" sesame balls from one-MICHELIN-star Shang Palace in Hong Kong, or hand-shaped Tortelli with Pesto Genovese with Marco Manocchio, chef de cuisine of Italian restaurant Dolce Vita at the Mandarin Oriental Singapore. On Instagram, let veteran chef Wolfgang Puck entice you as he demonstrates how his signature Lobster with Truffle is made at his MICHELIN-star Cut in Beverly Hills.
Massimo Bottura’s Instagram Show: Quarantine Kitchen
The celebrated chef of three-MICHELIN-star Osteria Francescana and his family have given people direct access to their home kitchen with a casual nightly cooking series on his Instagram page. Instructions for vegetable Thai curry and tortellini in panna are delivered with the chef’s characteristic panache and the help of his family.
Ferran Adria’s Family Meals On Twitter
The legendary chef of three-star elBulli fame takes his cookbook The Family Meal online with a series of Spanish-language cooking tutorials on his Twitter account — try your hand at these simple and inexpensive dishes that fed his staff during mealtimes at the now-shuttered restaurant.
Respondiendo a algunas de las preguntas que me habéis ido haciendo. #SeguimosConectados pic.twitter.com/3vUO2F2rt9
— Ferran Adrià (@ferranadria) March 30, 2020
Eric Ripert’s Home Cooking On Instagram
From a quick chicken and red wine stew to a “super easy” cheese tortellini meat sauce for pasta, Eric Ripert of three-star Le Bernardin in New York shares his go-to recipes for cooking at home in simple recipes with photos and video clips.
Guy Martin On IGTV
The affable chef of two-star Le Grand Vefour in Paris has taken to IGTV to share his recipes for French classics like gâteau au chocolat, veal escalope with mushroom cream sauce and flambéed bananas in easy-to-follow four-minute French language videos.
Jason Atherton’s Social Kitchen Isolation On IGTV
British chef Jason Atherton of MICHELIN-star London restaurant Pollen Street Social does cooking demonstrations with recipes for easy home-cooked meals and dispenses tips on kitchen management like dealing with use-by dates and leftovers. Celebrity Ronan Keating makes a special guest appearance in one episode and literally sings for his supper.
Daniel Boulud’s Cooking Demos On Instagram
His vaunted two-star restaurant Daniel in New York City may be closed, but chef Daniel Boulud has been keeping himself occupied with short cooking demonstrations on Instagram for culinary basics like Hollandaise sauce and French-style scrambled eggs.
Dominique Ansel’s Easy Home Cooking On Instagram
Acclaimed NYC baker behind MICHELIN Plate restaurant 189 by Dominique Ansel in Los Angeles may have rocketed to fame for inventing the Cronut, but he’s spending his time at home now sharing easy recipes for banana bread and pork dumplings.
Jose Andres’s #recipesforthepeople
On his Instagram account, Jose Andre of two-star restaurant minibar in Washington, D.C. cooks angel hair pasta in tomato sauce with his family in 3.5 minutes flat and demonstrates how to cook fried rice and lentil stew with his family in his #recipesforthepeople series.
