Chef-entrepreneur with more than 20 restaurant start-ups, national and international, as a consultant and as a partner. Born in the north of Lebanon in a small village nestled in the hills similar to those surrounding Duca di Dolle, after graduating in Human Resources he moved to France for some time before coming to Trieste for good.
There he enrolled in the University of Education and was selected to take part in Masterchef thanks to his innate ability to combine ingredients and process them to create surprising dishes.
A mix of talent, passion and education because, since he was a child, he has always been used to recognising how much the sun, earth, water and wind “own” food, giving it great value, a fortune transmitted by his father’s work: hunting, fishing and farming.
His curiosity led him to spend a lot of time in the kitchen with his grandmother and mother, learning the innermost secrets of the ‘life’ of ingredients.
After Masterchef he tackled his first experience as a consultant in the field of catering alongside chef Bruno Barbieri: This was a fundamental stage in his career because it immediately catapulted him into haute cuisine with Italy’s most starred chef, opening up new avenues in Italy and abroad.
Maradona is now resident chef at Duca di Dolle because he recognises the hills of Rolle as the hills of his childhood, capable of giving him the same positive energy as when he was a child, leading him to once again create something new, unexplored and undoubtedly exciting.