Fadi Kattan

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Fadi Kattan
Born1977 or 1978
Bethlehem, West Bank
Occupation(s)Chef, hotelier, cookbook author
Years active2016–present
Website www.fadikattan.com

Fadi Kattan (born 1977 or 1978) is a Palestinian chef, hotelier, and cookbook author.

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Early life

Some of Kattan's family previously lived in Jaffa; their land, including 120 acres of orange groves, was confiscated as part of the 1948 Nakba, and they relocated to the West Bank. [1] [2] Kattan's paternal grandparents visited Japan, India, and Sudan. His maternal grandfather was raised in France. [3] Kattan was born in Bethlehem, where he was raised in one of the city's "oldest Christian families", with records dating back to 1738. [4] [3] [5] Kattan attended school in Jerusalem, and took a number of family vacations to France. [5] Because much of his extended family had lived in or traveled outside of the West Bank, Kattan was exposed to a broad range of foods throughout his childhood. [3] He learned to cook from his grandmother, Julia, and mother, Micheline. [3] [5]

Career

Kattan trained in hospitality at Paris’s Institut Vatel. He moved back to Palestine in 2000, where he worked at the InterContinental Hotel before it closed due to the Second Intifada. He shifted to working with his father, who sold kitchen equipment. [1]

Kattan founded a restaurant, Fawda, in Bethlehem in 2016. [1] The restaurant featured a menu that was improvised daily based on local produce. [3] It closed during the COVID-19 pandemic, [6] with plans to reopen in late 2024. [7] A few years later, he opened Kassa, a boutique hotel, in the city. [1] Kattan has also led food tours of Bethlehem. [8]

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kattan started the podcast Ramblings of a Chef, which was produced by Radio Alhara. [3]

In December 2022, [9] Kattan opened a restaurant called Akub in the Notting Hill neighborhood of London. [1] [10] The restaurant combines British produce with Palestinian flavors. [3]

Kattan's cookbook, Bethlehem: A Celebration of Palestinian Food, was published on 16 May 2024 by Hardie Grant. [11] The book is split into four sections, each based on a season of the year, and is interwoven with stories of Kattan's family and Palestinian food artisans and farmers. [2]

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