DUBAI: For Carmen Landsberg, the kitchen has always felt like home — a place of creativity, comfort and connection. Born in the small South African town of Empangeni and raised in a family passionate about cooking, Landsberg found her love for the kitchen at an early age.
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“I enjoyed cooking from a really young age. It’s always kind of been in my family. I think I’m the only one that’s a professional chef, but we’ve always been surrounded by food — and obviously, being South African, it’s very much part of our culture,” she tells Arab News. “It’s a gathering. It’s about getting together.”
She credits her uncle for sparking her interest: “I spent a lot of time on our family farm. I’d get tomatoes from the garden and maybe make some tomato soup from very few ingredients.”
Now group executive chef at Brunch & Cake Global, she leads the brand’s expansion across the GCC and beyond, including the Kingdom.
