Yurii Kovryzhenko Biography
Yurii Kovryzhenko is a chef, TV, and radio host, and the global ambassador of Ukrainian food. He won the Global Chef Awards 2017 in Singapore for his commitment to the growth of gastronomy.
How old is Yurii Kovryzhenko? – Age
He is 40 years old as of 8 June 2022. He was born in 1983 in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR.
Yurii Kovryzhenko Family – Education
His mother was an educator. He graduated from Kyiv Art School No. 6 in 1999. He studied at Kyiv Slavic University’s Faculty of International Relations from 2000 to 2005. He also studied at the Ecole Ritz Escoffier and École Grégoire-Ferrand in Paris, the Basque Culinary Center in San Sebastian, Spain, the IFSE in Turin, and the International Academy of Italian Cuisine in Lucca, Italy.
Yurii Kovryzhenko Restaurant
As a chef, he launched the Ukrainian restaurant “Kobzar” in Tbilisi, Georgia, in 2012, where he worked for two years to promote Ukrainian cuisine in the Caucasus region. In 2014, he oversaw the Vintage Nouveau restaurant at Lviv’s Vintage Hotel.
In 2019, he opened the Ukrainian cuisine restaurant Trypillia in Seoul, South Korea, with the backing of Ukraine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He will coach the national culinary squad for the IKA Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart in 2020.
He was granted a special prize, a gold medal, and the honorary title of Ambassadors of the Taste for Global Gastronomy twice in 2021 and 2022. He was inducted into France’s oldest culinary order, the Disciples Escoffier International, in November 2021.
He arranged the Month of Ukrainian Cuisine in France in the autumn of 2021, during which he opened a Ukrainian pop-up restaurant in Dijon, during the International Culinary Exhibition Foirde Dijon. Yurii started a Ukrainian cuisine restaurant in London in the summer of 2022.
Yurii Kovryzhenko Slow Food
He has been a staunch supporter of Slow Food for many years. Kovryzhenko represents Ukraine in the international chef organisation Slow Food Chefs’ Alliance.Slow Food, started in 1986 in Italy by Carlo Petrini, promotes local food and traditional cooking as an alternative to fast food. It promotes plant, seed, and livestock farming, as well as local small enterprises and sustainable cuisine. Slow Food promotes food quality while opposing overproduction and food waste, with a focus on safeguarding small and local farmers and producers against globalization.
Yurii Kovryzhenko Career
He hosted and cooked on the STB culinary show “Dish of Honor” in 2019. He has been president of Bocuse d’Or Ukraine, the Ukrainian office of a world chef championship held every two years, since 2020. Kovryzhenko has worked as an ambassador for Ukrainian cuisine in a variety of nations with the Ukrainian Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2020. A photograph of Kovryzhenko’s molecular borscht was published in the renowned culinary magazine CHEF and the Michelin Red Guide at the end of 2020. He was a speaker and a member of the organizing committee for the Chefs World Summit in Monte Carlo from 2016 to 2019.
He represented Ukraine at the World Gourmet Summit in Singapore from 2017 to 2019. He joined the project “Uncounted since 1932” in Brussels as a chef in 2018, which aims to spread awareness of the Ukrainian Holodomor and encourage other nations to recognize it. In 2020, he will coach the national culinary team for the IKA Culinary Olympics in Stuttgart. He won a special prize, a gold medal, and the honorary title of Ambassadors of the Taste for the Global Gastronomy in 2021 and 2022, respectively. He joined the Disciples Escoffier International, France’s oldest culinary order, in November 2021.
It is a contemporary Ukrainian neo-bistro in Chelsea. He received the Global Chef Awards in Singapore in 2017 for his work in developing Ukrainian cuisine. He won a gold medal from the French organization “Best of Gastronomie” in 2020. Kovryzhenko was awarded a gold medal and the honorary title Ambassadors of the Taste for the Global Gastronomy in 2021 and 2022.