He used multidimensional, qualitative research method by using in-depth interviews with creative culinary artists and content analysis of innovative competence and information about culinary education. After repeated reading, conceptualise, coding and compressing information, a grounded theory was used to analyse the data and develop a descriptive model of innovative culinary competency. A grounded theory consists of a set of systematic procedures that seek to inductively derive a theory about a particular phenomenon. To guarantee the project’s credibility, participants provided documents such as award certificates, news reports, photographs and written autobiographies, so that the researchers could conduct triangulation analysis. Finally, the project’s validity was further reinforced by the researchers’ reflection notes on their research methodology and on the innovative culinary competencies uncovered through this research and its implications.