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Chef Tiyan Alile
Tiyan Alile is an award winning Chef and the current owner of Miami Hedonist a private chef dining experience in Miami. She was the most recent Past President of The Culinary Arts Practitioners Association and promoter of Culinary Academy and Tarragon, an experiential dining room and wine club.
She left her corporate law practice and founded the Culinary Academy Nigeria in 2012, after studying Advanced Culinary Arts at L’Academie de Cuisine.
Tiyan has lead teams as a Consultant to Build, Operate, Manage and Transfer several restaurants, commercial kitchens, menus, standard operating practices and trained staff for restaurants and hotels.
Tiyan has been involved in planning a number of events in the hospitality space and delivering masterclasses to thousands of attendees at several food fairs including the Fiesta of Flavours Food Fairs, Tiyan was the Pioneer curator for Masterclasses at the GTBank Food and Drink Fair, She participated at the Mzansi Culinary Festival (South Africa) and taught a Culinary masterclass at the Central Johannesburg College.
She birthed her brain Child- The African Young Chefs’ Competition in 2016, which is a Pan African annual event giving Young African Chefs a platform to express their skill and creativity as well as a platform of learning and capacity building. Tiyan is also a proud member of the World Chef Global Connect, a unifying platform for the promotion of culinary education and mentorship.
Tiyan Led Nigeria as Chef Mentor in 2015 to participate in the Young Chef Olympiad competition in India. Her Restaurant Tarragon received in Belfast and Russia the prestigious World Luxury Restaurant Awards for Fine Dining and Food Styling and Presentation for West Africa and Nigeria (2018) and Tiyan was named Best Head Chef West & Central Africa (2019) by the World Luxury Restaurants Awards.
Tiyan has been featured as a Forbes Africa Woman, on the BBC, CNBC Entrepreneur of the week, in CuisineNoir, Full Cover Guardian Woman, Full Cover ThisDay Style, Genevieve and Today’s Woman Magazine, and many other publications. She has published two cookbooks, “Tale in a Pie” and The Homeschooled Chef.
When Tiyan is not stirring a pot or penning her thoughts she can be found in silence practicing yoga, tapping her feet to jazz, doing humanitarian work with the Rotary Club or scoring a hole in one on the golf course.
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Tale in a Pie is a collection that opens the door to romance, friendship, the art of living and of course great food. For years, Tiyan Alile has been blogging about her journey through life, sharing bits of herself along with the recipes of the meals she loves. In this books she brings years of experience as a lawyer, chef, teacher and manager together.
Written with the same passionate abandon with which she engages with the world, this book confirms Tiyan’s reputation as a polymath, a rare being in this clime. The beauty of this book is that while reading these deeply personal pieces of her truly exceptional life, you have space to think about yours and come to your own conclusions.
Tiyan currently is a private chef in Miami
