Manu Buffara

According to the Brazilian chef Alex Atala and the writer and food curator, Andrea Petrini, Manoella Buffara Ramos, or Manu, put the city of Curitiba, in South Brazil, on the world gastronomic map. The chef boasts a collection of national and international prizes and honors as number 21 in The Best Chef Awards worldwide ranking and chef and owner of restaurant number 49 in the list of Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants (both in 2021), a fixed juror since 2019 of the Basque Culinary Center, and one of the stars of the last four versions of the Gelinaz chefs’ collective. Manu has generously donated her recipes on GNFT to benefit the World Central Kitchen initiative.