The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

Time is on for a new era in my life due to the WACS nomination, It feel great and the support from the WACS office is fantastic. Now it is time to start the preparations for next years Global Chef & HB challenge and semi finals for North Europe in Denmark , what a show this will be!! I am right now on my way to Belgrade in Serbia for a new exiting project that I will tell you more about later on.   Fly safe

      To be married with a sommelier and foodie is not easy and when you ad up that she can stand up with my stupid and sometimes crazy ideas you all understand that I am married to the funniest, sexiest, smartest woman on earth, who am I to deserve you my precious love. Happy anniversary darling and I see you in a few days. I will always love you.    

Finally !! I am now the official WACS Continental Director for Europe North and I would like to thank all the people around me for great support during the last year, I love you guys and thank you for your friendship . The following four years will be extremely challenging and lot of hard work but also great fun for sure, working with chefs is never boring and I am looking forward to everything. Education is important in our business and also the right help and setup for the younger chefs and to make them integrated in the WorldChefs circle, we have done a lot in the Nordic countries for the YCC (young chefs club) but now it is time for all the other countries to follow and to find a structure that works for them, I will always be here for advice so just ask. Many things are on my mind and I am working with full throttle forward and I wish you all out there a fantastic summer.   Not good looking, just good cooking and some pictures from the congress   ...

I am so happy to announce that Patrik Johansson and Margit Richert now have moved to Kosta and will set up the new small scale artisan butter making place with us. This guys have already the best reputation in the culinary business and are making the butter for the world famous Noma in Copenhagen and VOLT and 19 glas in Stockholm . Have you heard about Tabata Bonardi? If you do you should know that she love this artisan butter and will in time be the newest customer, VIVA LA FRANCE !! Kosta Butter is tha thing and if you need more info about this just post me a note, and YES we will export.

Gothenburg culinary team is one of the tree regional’s teams that will compete in World Cup this November in Luxembourg . It was a great pleasure to visit the team training camp and to hear all the new remarks and good input from everybody. The plates looks fantastic but there are some changes to be made and the polish is not there yet but it will be great at the end. I wish the team great success and don’t forget to enjoy the ride getting there.  

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There is only one cooking competition for single chefs that counts and that is the Bocuse d`Or what ever you say out there. And the winner for the European tryout is Tommy Myllimäki who are competing for Sweden for his second time, way to go with Denmark as number two and at third place to Norway . The Nordic countries are keeping up the lead position in Europe and we are all looking forward to the finals in Lyon 2015. Some of the pictures are taken by my good friend Mikael Göransson and thanks for letting me use them.