Fourth-generation Spanish chef Elena Arzak, who heads one of the top 10 restaurants in the world, Arzak, will receive the award for Best Female Chef at this year’s edition of the World’s 50 Best ...

Spain’s Elena Arzak wins the Veuve Clicquot World’s Best Female Chef award at the World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards Elena Arzak, Joint Head Chef at Arzak in San Sebastian, Spain, has been named the ...

Welcome to Lady Chef Stampede, Amanda Cohen’s series about the world’s most influential Lady Chefs! Click here to read her Q & A with us about the column, or read on to learn more about this week’s ...

Over the last decade, I have followed the career of Elena Arzak of the Arzak restaurant in San Sebastian, Spain. I was thrilled when Elena was named Veuve Cliquot's Top Female Chef of the World in ...

Joshua David Stein is a New York-based journalist, author, food critic, and editor. Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena at a cider house outside San Sebastian. [Photo: Joshua David Stein/Eater.com] ...

If you haven’t been paying attention to the evolution of Basque cuisine and its place in the modern world of dining, you may not be aware of Juan Mari Arzak. If you’re a hardcore food person, you’ll ...

Chef Elena Arzak manages to combine her role as a culinary alchemist with being a mother to two children. ‘The proudest moment in my career? Well, being named world’s best female chef was kind of a ...

"DON'T EAT," Elena Arzak warns me. She's about to leave me with her father, Juan Mari Arzak, the 70-year-old patron saint of Basque cuisine, at San Sebastián's central La Bretxa market while she heads ...