Famous Chefs On Celebrity Cruises!
Celebrity Cruises is expanding it’s onboard food programme, Savor, to include a line-up of special interest cruises aimed at celebrating Celebrity's onboard culinary experience by inviting guest chefs and other food and wine experts to enhance certain cruises. Celebrity's new Savor Your Destination themed cruises started yesterday when Celebrity Eclipse, set sail with Australian chef Benjamin Christie onboard.
"Our guests are always looking for new ways to celebrate their love of great cuisine, which is why an outstanding culinary experience is one of the key aspects of a Celebrity Cruises vacation," said Jacques Van Staden, Celebrity's Vice President, Culinary Operations. "By expanding the already robust 'Savor' series of our Celebrity Life program to include the 'Savor Your Destination' themed cruises, we are not only giving our guests a unique opportunity to interact with exceptionally talented chefs, but also celebrating the fact that, from a culinary perspective, our ships and the restaurants onboard are destinations in themselves."
On Savor Your Destination cruises, guests can attend a meet-and-greet cocktail hour where they can chat with the chef and enjoy side-by-side photo opportunities. Each guest chef will lead a cooking demonstration, where they will show-off the techniques, ingredients and flair specific to their individual style.
"We are thrilled that a rising star like Chef Christie is our first official Savor Your Destination chef," Van Staden said. "He is incredibly innovative and tends to celebrate indigenous Australian ingredients such as yakajirra, or bush tomato, paperbark, and wattleseed in his cooking, and we are delighted to give our guests the experience to expand their culinary imaginations by tasting these unique ingredients."
Celebrity also has confirmed UK chef and author Adam Byatt, head chef at London's award-winning Trinity in Clapham Old Town, to sail on Celebrity Eclipse on 21st August. On 2nd September 2, Celebrity Equinox, will host Daisy Martinez, on a 7-night Western Mediterranean voyage from Barcelona to Rome. On 31st October, Zach Bell, Chef de Cuisine at Palm Beach's Cafe Boulud, will sail on Celebrity Solstice on a 7-night roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale. Sailing a 10-night Caribbean voyage roundtrip from Fort Lauderdale on Celebrity Equinox on 26th November will be Puerto Rican chef Carmen Gonzalez, former sole proprietor of Miami's Carmen The Restaurant, where she became renowned for innovative modern American cuisine with Puerto Rican influences. American chef and restaurateur John Currence will conclude the programme. He’s famous in the America Southern cuisine arena and will star on a Caribbean cruise on Celebrity Solstice on 5th December.
In the next few weeks, Celebrity will announce more Savor Your Destination events. "The Savor Your Destination cruises are another experience in our robust onboard culinary enrichment programme," Van Staden said. "Our guests love great cuisine, a passion that expands to other gastronomic experiences such as winemaking. As we continue to develop the Celebrity Life Savor Your Destination cruise lineup, we will welcome not only chefs, but also winemakers and food artisans, to share their expertise with our guests."
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