Among the many awards honoring chefs’ prowess in the kitchen, the Basque Culinary World Prize is an annual global prize that stands out by focusing on the initiatives of cooks who put themselves at the service of society or the environment — like the project helmed by Fatmata Binta, winner of this year’s prize. They might not have developed revolutionary cooking techniques or invented recipes that will become legendary in their country’s culinary repertoire, yet the winners of the Basque World Culinary Prize will go down in the history of world gastronomy. Because these committed chefs use co…