The University of Amsterdam announced Yotam Ottolenghi, chef and cookbook author, as the winner of the Johannes van Dam Prize. The prize will be awarded on 17 November 2017 at the Auditorium of the University of Amsterdam. The Johannes van Dam Prize has been awarded before to Claudia Roden (2012), Harold McGee (2013), Carlo Petrini (2014) and John Halvemaan (2015).
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