SILVENA ROWE
MASTI
Growing up in the city of Plovdiv, or Philibe, an old Turkish city, which was once part of the glorious Ottoman Empire, later and now part of Bulgaria. Silvena Rowe’s childhood was the most delicious, colourful and inspired journey through food, eating was and still is a huge pleasure for her. Rowe is the leading vegan chef in Dubai, with her beautiful Nassau restaurant in Jumeirah Golf Estates. Her culinary philosophy is simple - You are what you eat, so she makes sure to cook the most delicious food, with the most super foods, antioxidants and organic ingredients. “Food is the original medicine, so when I create food, I do so with intention, I tend to avoid completely sugar, almost no salt, all my meat is highest quality, grass fed, fish ideally to be wild, lots of fibre and my cuisine tends to be mostly plant based. I was the first chef in the UAE that popularised locally grown UAE organic produce, to date I remain an ambassador of UAE locally grown food”. Her ideal plate is mostly plant-based with some high quality non plant based protein, like grass fed meat or wild fish or seafood. She aims to cook mostly with locally sourced ingredients and her food is full of colours and textures, and aims for the rainbow colours when she create her plates. Her main consideration when she chooses ingredients is that they are humanly sources, produced or grown, local whenever possible, always organic and free of hormones and antibiotics. The most important combination for her is passion, creativity and of course beautiful produce.
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