2024
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Head of Academy
About the position We’re looking for a Head of MAD Academy to join our team in Spring, 2025. You’ll lead MAD’s innovative education programs, designing and delivering both general courses and custom offerings to train and inspire the next generation of hospitality leaders. You are a strategic thinker, have solid teaching and facilitation experience, and…
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Two chefs, two continents, one climate emergency.
Separated by an ocean and two very different cultures, the word that Katie Button and Ricard Camarena each spontaneously chose to describe an unprecedented disaster reflects the deeper experience they now share. Both of them are still coming to grips with the impact of extreme weather devastation on their communities. Both of them found a…
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5(ish) Questions with Harriet Tomlinson
This month, Harriet Tomlinson shares how MAD Academy helped fix her “wobbly compass” and talks about finding a renewed sense of purpose as the caretaker of 180 acres of pristine Victorian farmland and forest.
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MAD Symposium FAQ
GENERAL INFORMATION What is MAD7?It is the seventh edition of the MAD Symposium, a gathering that brings together hundreds of chefs, sommeliers, servers, bartenders, baristas, bakers, producers, and writers together beneath a big red circus tent in Copenhagen for two days of ideas, inspiration and connection. It’s also really, really fun. What is this year’s…
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MAD Symposium 101
An Illustrated Guide to MAD7 Last week, we announced the return of MAD Symposium on May 25-26, 2025. By the time the tent flaps open on MAD7, it will be seven years since the global hospitality community last gathered together in Copenhagen. Seven years is a long time in this business, and we realize that many of…
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Rene Redzepi Reveals the Future of World’s Best Restaurant Noma
It starts with the return of his MAD Symposium, a culinary world gathering with impact well beyond dining out.
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Hospitality workers are uniquely susceptible to alcohol abuse. Can that change?
This summer, Ferhat Dirik took two monumental steps. First, he quit drinking. Then, he told everyone about it. Together with his brother Sertaç, Ferhat has transformed Mangal 2, his family’s already popular ocakbasi, into the kind of place with its innovative take on Turkish cuisine and a strong natural wine list, that regularly gets labeled…
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Uses for Obsessives like Ben Shewry
When Ben Shewry appeared on stage at the first MAD Symposium in 2011, most of the audience had never heard of him. He was clearly nervous, and his talk about his Melbourne restaurant Attica was at times somewhat halting. But about midway through, he showed a short film that brought the house down. It focused on him…
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5 Questions with Julia Soria
Julia Soria, a chef and MAD alum with an impressive culinary career, has recently taken on a new challenge: launching her own bilingual magazine, Figo. We caught up with Julia to chat about going from chef to publisher, and where you might just see a wee bit of MAD in Figo’s pages.