The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

Dear chefs around the world and especially all of you who is competing at the world cup in Luxembourg this week, I wish you all the best of luck and I am very sorry that I could not find time to be there with you to celebrate the victory’s together with everybody. This is the first time in 20 years that I am not attending a big culinary competition and It feels very strange to take part from outside, I hate it and I will for sure see you all in Erfurt 2016 for the Culinary Olympics. Best of luck and fight hard Thanks to Palle W Nielsen for the pictures.  

My first board meeting with the World association of chefs society WACS was held in Durban on the east coast of sunny South Africa a few week ago. How exiting to meet old friends from the board but also new chefs that will make this new constellation fantastic but also very challenging to push world chefs forward to new frontiers. The meeting was long and very constructive and I am looking forward to the next years in my little corner of the world and all my great friends in north of Europe . I would like to send a very warm thank you to all the chefs of SACA and especially Billy Gallagher for making my birthday very special and memorable and also for the greatest hospitality one can wish for. Thank you from the bottom of my heart to all of you.

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