A Chef with A Flare for Sharing
An unexpected setback forced Yono Purnomo, now a renowned chef, to learn cooking from scratch. Prominent figures such as President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Barack Obama have tasted his culinary expertise.
May 16, 2017
Yono Purnomo
Widjiono Purnomo, or Chef Yono, has had a very busy few weeks. A fortnight ago, he was in Washington, DC to judge the 2017 National Jeunes Chefs Rôtisseurs Competition, where chefs under 25 from 10 regions, competed to win a ticket to Frankfurt, Germany.
"The winner will go to the international competition at Frankfurt," said Yono, the Conseiller Culinaire Provincial who led the United States’ Northeast Region at the Chaîne des R
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