The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

 Text by Egyptian chef association Executive Chef / Production Director, LSG Sky Chefs Cairo Former Worldchefs Continental Director/ Europe North With over 35 years of dedicated experience in the global luxury hospitality industry, Chef Dragan Unic stands as a paragon of culinary excellence and leadership. His career is marked by a deep passion for food, honed through his roles as a chef, leader, and sommelier in high-end restaurants, hotels, and large-scale catering operations. His extensive career in Sweden saw him holding the position of Executive Chef for numerous prestigious hotels from 1989 to 2018. His influence extended beyond the kitchen as a board member of the Swedish Chefs Association. Driven by his desire to elevate the hospitality industry, he founded “UnicTaste”, a consultancy firm that supports restaurants and hotels in areas such as sales, education, and human resources. Currently, Chef Dragan serves as the Executive Chef and Production Director at LSG Sky Chefs in...

 I am on my way to the last working week here in Cairo with mixed emotions really, I will not miss the actual work here that have been extremely intense and challenging in a way that nobody can understand, working with under educated Egyptians who think they knows everything is strange and also the cultural differences on top of everything is nothing I can recommend to anyone with high blood pressure. But I will sure miss Cairo a lot, the intensity, always busy and the hustle and bustle of the street, I will miss going for coffee and Ramses square where its always crazy with people and sit in my corner coffee shop and just people watching middle of the night, Cairo truly never sleeps and will be missed. Mike Per Igor Nick and Adi,  Habibis I will miss your company and  Thank you Cairo for being so good to me and the girls photos from my compound during Ramadan 2025

 I had Bianca visiting me in Cairo for the last time since I will move from here as some already knows so this was her last chance to visit me and to explore even more, It was absolutely wonderful to spend days with her, I miss this so much and its hard to catch up for sure, but better trying. Bianca is to be 20 this year and I cant understand where time have gone and I refuse to se myself older, still young by heart but body feels shit!! We spend time discovering new places, eating great food and enjoying being together. Daddy loves you more than chocolate my sweet darling 

 I have a brother three years younger than me and he is everything that I'm not humble, well educated, fit, calm, funny, charming and interesting as a person and he was here in Cairo to visit me for his first time in Africa but I'm sure not the last time. It was great to spend some days just us and to enjoy each others company wile me showing him around Cairo monuments and sights worth visiting but also some cool bars and eating places, I know that he is pleased with the trip and so am I and I love spending time us alone, way to long ago and we need to find a way how we can do this at least once a year, I miss having him as a traveling companion, no fuss and not complicated, just two brothers having fun. I hope to see him soon back somewhere in Africa again.

 I had the most pleasant and unbelievable surprise on my last visit to Serbia, my dear friend Nicola presented a Icon especially made for me in gold of the saint Euphrosynus the patron of chefs in the Greek orthodox beliefs, what a amazing gift and i will cherish this for ever, hvala drug! Efrosin had many spellings but he was from very poor background in Palestine and enter a perish as cook and made sacrifices and a revaluation that found him a place in heaven, read more here  He is celebrated every year on September 24 and read about the 3 apples here https://azbyka.ru/days/sv-evfrosin-palestinskij 

 Mr Munir Makkar is a magician, let me explain few people have a interesting life like his, journalist, finance guy, musician, vegetable farm owner and in general a really amazing and super interesting person who you can sit and enjoy conversation with for hours, I took my brother there to meet him and to check out his gardens and green houses, absolutely fantastic this time a year and all the crops are fist class and super fresh, so unusual to all the supermarket tiered veggies of 3 class quality (the prime is all exported) As a chef this kind of excursions are very important and it gives me better understanding of seasonal variety and also it gives me so much inspiration how to use much more veggies in my cooking awesome! Out of the blue Munir told me that he have released a album in French where he plays all the guitars on, how cool is that, great mix of bossa and Latino rhythms with a cool voice, I love it and I hope to catch up with him very soon again, thank you Munir for you...