Shalom Kadosh
Israeli chef
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Shalom Kadosh (Hebrew: שלום קדוש; born 1947 or 1948) is an Israeli chef. He has been considered the unofficial chef of Israel's prime ministers, including Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, and Benjamin Netanyahu.[1][2]
Shalom Kadosh | |
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שלום קדוש | |
| Born | 1947 or 1948 |
Early life
Kadosh was born near Marrakesh, French Morocco into a family with nine siblings. They made aliyah to Israel when he was 14 and settled in Afula.[3] He became interested in traveling as a young man, and began studying at a cooking school in Haifa so he could save up for travel funds.[1]
Career
Early in his career, he worked as a cook on a cruise ship.[1][3] He opened the kosher restaurant "Cow on the Roof" at Leonardo Plaza Hotel Jerusalem in 1979, and worked there until it closed in 1993.[4] He continued working as executive chef of Leonardo Plaza Hotel Jerusalem, and marked 35 years there in 2010.[1][3] He continued to preside over Primavera, the hotel's Italian restaurant, as of 2013.[5]
He prepared a recreation of an ancient Israelite Essene meal at Qumran for 400 guests of the Israel Museum in 1981.[6] He organized the food for the "King David Feast" in 1996, which was held to celebration 3,000 years of Jerusalem.[1][3] He cooked food for the inaugural "Golan Vintage: Wine & Culinary Festival" in 1998, held by the Golan Heights Winery, and returned to the festival again in 2001.[3] He appeared on an episode of Duet the same year.[7] He was the chef for the World Holocaust Forum in January 2020, which included 41 heads of state.[8]
During his career, he has cooked for a number of heads of state, his first being American president Jimmy Carter.[1] He has also cooked for French president Jacques Chirac,[9] King Hussein of Jordan, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, and American presidents Bill Clinton, George H. W. Bush, and Barack Obama (in 2013).[1][10] French food critic Gilles Pudlowski dubbed Kadosh the "Kosher Bocuse".[9] He joined the prestigious Club des Chefs des Chefs in 2011.[2] He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Restaurants Association in 2022.[11]