Chef's Essentials is the Livingetc series exploring your favorite chefs' go-to kitchen utensils and how they contribute to shaping their craft, so that you, too, can start collecting their treasured cookware — each piece uniting functionality and style — and hone your culinary art.
Some loves start very early on, long before one can even realize what exactly draws them to a given discipline, place, person, or art form. Such is the case of Petros Dimas and his dedication to farm-grown produce, which, raised in old town Athens's Thissio neighborhood by two passionate culinarians with a working estate in the nearby Corinth, was the sole source of food throughout his childhood. The gastronomic awakening of the multi-award-winning, Michelin-starred Greek chef, then, was almost "predestined", a term Dimas used to describe how the centuries-old heritage of his homeland, vibrant nature, and flavors became the filters, the pillars, through which he interpreted both cuisine and life almost subconsciously.
