For this award-winning Chef, life in the kitchen is much like life outside of it - the satisfaction, the joys, the battles, the hurdles, the diskartes - the heat is always on and the outputs vary each day. This is why learning culinary arts should be taken as seriously and as in-depth as learning how to live and cope.


Judging from his many students who have come back to him in expression of gratitude for having been equipped for the lives and tasks they now live despite the ordeals, one can say that Chef Ogie lives, and teaches, by example. A good and inspiring example.

He joins the roster of world-class Global Academy Chef Instructors in the facilitation of the Academy’s newest, exclusive digital learning sets of courses.