The secrets from the Chef & Sommelier

I have not been here for a very long time and it is a shame becouse I love to share my life with you,  I am now at the Hotel Öresund in Landskrona for a year and I just love my work and all the great staff that I have, you guys rock!! Back today after more than 3 weeks of summer vacation is a strange feeling that I am not use to but it feels great and I am looking forward to all the new excitement coming ahead this season, we are changing the restaurant concept and I will show you some pictures in a few days but for now Im happy to back. cheers.  Med vänlig hälsning / Best regards   Dragan Unic WACS Continental Director Europe North

Sometimes life is complicated and things do not turn out as one could expect. My time I Kosta at the hotel is over and it have been some fantastic time with great c olle agues and amazing projects, thank you Torsten Jansson for this opportunity to work for you and with you, you will be remembered. New challenges are on the rising and many new doors are open for me and I would like to thank you all for being part of my life.

Chefs Association Denmark would like to welcome chefs and waiters and all food professionals from the Nordic and European countries to sensuous flavor and taste experiences june 2015 in Aalborg Denmark: ● Food fair with focus on health – naturalness – ecology - culinary delight – freshness ● Unique Danish quality food - and niche manufacturers ● Workshops on topics like sustainability - organic food - waste – the tourism structure in Denmark - future challenges for the hotel and restaurant industry ● Competitions at high international league level ● – Semi Final Continental Competitions – Final in Greece 2016 ● Global Chefs Challenge – Global Pastry Chefs – Hans Bueschkens Young Chefs Challenge   ● Nordic Chef Junior – Nordic Waiter ● Nordic Chef Junior Meeting – get together ● Network debates ● Foodies - culinary activities ● Food and wine commentators and bloggers ● International judge school ● Nordic Young Chef Club Conference ● Nordic Chefs Association Congress

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.