When it comes to cooking creativity and culinary prowess, striving for excellence can be a challenge, especially in today’s world of fusion cuisines and the mixing of food cultures and disciplines. Although chefs all share a common bond when it comes to their deep-rooted passion for cooking, in the field of culinary arts these days, the competition is especially fierce.

Armed with an infatuation for food and the desire to create culinary masterpieces innately rooted in their hearts, many believe great chefs are born — not made — and their destiny scripted in the stars. Consider Stefano Sena and Antonio Migliaccio.