I am back from another amazing adventure in my home country of Serbia and the 2026 edition of Wine vision and Open Balkan culinary competition for the 5 th year in a row.
First thing is that I love the opportunity to invite judges to explore Serbian culture, rakija, history and food and this year's lineup was fantastic with Daren from Malaysia/London, Danny from Wales, Daniel from Germany, Jimmi from Sweden, Alan from France, Justinus from Lithuania and Gianluca from Italy, how lucky and fortunate I am to have chef friends like this from the global culinary scene and I feel humble that they took the time to come to Serbia.
The whole idea here is to not only compete but also to mentor young local chefs and give them feedback so they can raise the bar and become the best they can in the region and the world, many competitors have been competing several years now and you can clearly see that the feedback is paying off and they raise to the occasion this year again, excellent work and I cannot be more proud of the young Serbian chefs.
To spent time with chefs is always different on another strange level, we can talk about food, analyze, adapt and also enjoy with ease, chefs are really easy to satisfy even if people think differently and that's the power of the white jacket, like the 3 musketeers but many more.
This would not be possible to organize without my brother Nikola from Junior chefs club Serbia who without his passion and determination non of this could happen and a big shout out to him.
Brate ti si najbolji!!
And to my lovely wife, thank you for being with me in Belgrade, love you.
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