Donald Lawson – Executive Chef Anantara Koh Samui Resort & Spa
For Australian-born Don Lawson, food has not only been his job, it has been his passion.
Starting off as an apprentice Chef in Australia’s capital city Canberra at the Southern Cross, Don developed a solid foundation by gaining qualifications in Commercial Cookery and Hotel Management at [...]
Chef Sergio hails from Ancona in Italy and trained to be a chef at a young age in order to indulge his passion for food and cooking. He came to Koh Samui 13 years ago to join a friend and has been here ever since. He loves the lifestyle on the island and can’t imagine [...]
There is really no definitive answer as to how rice arrived in Italy. However, as soon as it made its way to Italy in the fourteenth century, most likely from Spain, it became a hit in Italian food. Areas of the country outside of Milan have the perfect blend of flat land, water, [...]
Imagine Italian food and most people will picture pasta or pizza, spaghetti or sausages. But like most ancient lands, Italy has a diverse cuisine. The regional variations show up nowhere so sharply as the divide between Northern and Southern cuisine. There is overlap, to be sure. But travel north toward the Alps or to the [...]
