The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

To be part of the international junior cup in Kragujevac Serbia was a very nice experience and pleasure thanks to Pedja Filipovic and his GastroMag team but also my great friends Uros Urosevic, Nikola Bisevac & Aleksandar Ilic. Junior chefs are our future and we all have to help out to educate them and to push them forward to new goals in the culinary world. The Kgastro competition with young chefs from all around the Balkans showed a great fighting spirit and very high ambitions with big eager to learn more all the time, thanks to all the chefs for making this a great event. To be invited as the head judge and to be able to invite other judges as Miroslav Kubec CD Europe central, Svetlana Riskova president in Latvia, Alexander Prokopovich from Russian Association, Bengt Sjöström from Norway, Gary Filbey from UK, Pero Savanovic Croatia and Veselina Slavcheva from Bulgaria, thanks to all of you for all the feedback to the compeditors and good job over all.   I am...

The city of Ohrid must be one of the least known cultural city’s in the known world, just amazing how old this city is and how important the historical heritage are still around every corner, just amazing and should be on everybody’s must do list if you are interested of old time European history and especially if you are from the Balkans.   So many beautiful places to see here and the blue Ohrid lake is crystal clear and perfect for swimming.   The lake has its own famous fish and that is the Pastrmka (trout) and you can find this at expensive prises in every restaurant in town, unfortunately is the quality of cooking very poor and I would not recommend this to anybody. Put on your walking shoes and discover this old city, It is worth wile.

Vad kul när näringslivets tidningar uppmärksammar vår branch med positiva nyheter och tack för att ni har med mig och visar att Sverige ligger i framkant på olika områden som rör den kulinariska världen. #di #wacs #worldchefs #svenskakockarsforening

To be part of the second Balkan food cookbook together with my great friend Jovan Radomir is a true adventure and great fun indeed and especially the travels we do together for research reasons. This project is something that we have talked about for several years and am I’m very happy that we did decide to move forward on this to show the world what the Balkans are when it comes to food, pleasure, lifestyle and not least the wines.   Travelling in the Balkan region is like going home and remembering my childhood with all the smells, busy street life and the food all from big restaurants to the street food and let me tell you that we are trying everything and we both enjoyed it very much. This time we have spend seven days in Macedonia travelling around the country all organized be Toni C a Macedonian who lives in Sweden and without him this trip would never happened, thank you my friend for your effort and companionship. I can not write this without mentioning Sas...

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   ...