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Leonor Espinosa Meet Leonor Espinosa: The World's Best Female Chef marrying food with art and politics. From its jungles to its deserts: the world's newly-crowned best female chef, Leonor Espinosa, draws her inspiration from Colombia's vast biodiversity and painful history.

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From its jungles to its deserts: the world's newly-crowned best female chef, Leonor Espinosa, draws her inspiration from Colombia's vast biodiversity and painful history. "My cuisine tastes of relegated cultures, of forgotten regions, it tastes of ancestral techniques, of smoke... of pain," said the 59-year-old after she was voted World's Best Female Chef 2022 by the prestigious UK food and drink consultancy William Reed, which elects The World's 50 Best Restaurants. "It also tastes of joy, of plantain, of cassava, of the soil after it rains, of a desert ecosystem. There is a lot of poetry in my kitchen."

A taste for social change

Leonor Espinosa gestures during an interview with AFP in Bogota Daniel Munoz/AFP

She is not only a cook but also an activist, having travelled to all corners of her motherland to study indigenous cuisine and give a voice to people who feel abandoned in areas blighted by poverty and decades of violence. In naming Espinosa its winner, the 50 Best panel described her as a "multi-talented Colombian chef marrying art, politics and gastronomy." Her restaurant named 'Leo' in Colombia's capital city, Bogota, showcases flavours from across the country, particularly from Indigenous and Afro-Colombian communities. "She has forged a unique, cerebral and profound cooking style that sets her apart from her contemporaries, at the same time as she seeks to use gastronomy as a tool of socio-economic development," said the 50 Best Restaurants panel.

Self taught prodigy

Leonor Espinosa and her assistant prepare a dish at her restaurant in Bogota Luis Acosta/AFP Espinosa grew up in Cartagena on the Caribbean coast of Colombia and taught herself how to cook. She studied economics and arts and worked in advertising before making the leap to the kitchen at the age of 35.

In 2017, she was was named Latin America's best female chef.

To give her restaurant its trademark native-infused menu, she has criss-crossed all over Colombia to document its culinary history. She incorporates many traditional ingredients into her repertoire - everything from exotic fruits and Andean tubers to ants and larvae. The world of haute cuisine has always been a mostly male-dominated industry but Espinosa has become a global reference for other aspiring female cooks to look up to. She hopes to continue using her cooking to promote the socio-economic development of Colombia’s most impoverished regions.

Check out the video above to see Espinosa's culinary skills in action

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The Below Deck Mediterranean alum gives an update on her latest adventure with her little girl. “Loving exploring daddy’s home country with this one,” Hannah wrote in the caption in the voice of her daughter, followed by a pink heart emoji. She went on to share a family fun fact adding, “Did you guys know that my dad was actually born in Scotland and moved to Zimbabwe when he was 7?!” Hannah finished her informative caption by writing that she had "ended up marrying a Scotsman." She added in the caption "which is beautiful as [Ava's] dad is the most amazing man I’ve ever met.” Back in March, Hannah gave an update on Ava’s latest milestone. “She's just started speaking, which is so cute,” Hannah said at the time. The Below Deck Med alum revealed her daughter’s first word was “Bubbles.” That wasn’t the only big event to take place in Hannah’s life this year. In March, she married her husband Josh Roberts in a beautiful ceremony held in Sydney, Australia. The couple tied the knot just 16 months after welcoming their daughter, who played an intricate role in the beachside wedding. She was the flower girl for her parent’s big day. Watch Below Deck Mediterranean on Bravo Mondays at 8/7c and next day on Peacock and the Bravo app.

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