Famous "chefs": From chef to businessman

Australia at your fingertips

Who does not know the famous Australian cook, Donna Hay, which today is synonymous with successful branching lifestyle company? She learned the magic of cooking at the age of eight, when her professional path was sealed. Today, she is one of the best-selling authors in Australia, and she has built her recognition on simple ingredients, simple preparation and beautifully arranged food in photographs. In addition to the columns he publishes in the Sunday edition of the News Limited and Herald newspapers, he also publishes his own newspaper "Donna Hay", has his own brand of household appliances, his own shop...

Her Australian fellow chef Pete Evans personifies a passionate, energetic person who is active as a chef, restaurant owner, media personality, writer and the list goes on. Born in Melbourne, now displaced between Australia and the USA, he is passionate about surfing, fishing and cooking. Restaurants have been a part of his life since he was nineteen until today, when he counts 41 of them, he has already opened seven of them, to name just a few: The Pantry, Hugo's Manly or Bar Nacional. With his charismatic, communicative character, he quickly made his way in front of the television cameras, where he made his debut thirteen years ago as co-host of the Home Show. The years of performing have taken their toll, and now he sovereignly hosts his own shows, the latest of which are the show Moveable Feast, which is broadcast in the USA, and the television and web series The Paleo Way, in which they reveal incredible recipes and interviews with leading paleo experts.

In addition to television, he is also no stranger to writing. So far, he has published seven books that have already achieved international success, while the eighth is on the way. As a columnist, he writes recipes and cooking ideas in many publications: in Fine Cooking, Wellbeing, MiNDFOOD, Gourmet Traveler and New Idea Magazines. In addition to her love of cooking, she has another passion, i.e. bringing her knowledge and advice on a healthy lifestyle and eating to people.

He who seeks will find

Lorraine Pascale she walked an unusual, varied, and above all interesting path before she found her mission. She originally built her successful career in the fashion field, where she worked as a photo model with the giants of the fashion industry - Chanel, Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Versace, Benetton, Donna Karan. She was even the first black British model on the cover of American Elle. But because the work did not make her happy and fulfilled, she left a successful career and searched for her professional passion. She tried interior design, hypnotherapy, but it wasn't until she attended a one-year cookery course at London's renowned Leiths School of Food and Wine that she knew her search was over. After graduating, she continued her two-year education at International Culinary Arts and Pastry, and later worked in the world's most famous kitchens, such as Petrus, The Mandarin Oriental, Gilgamesh and The Wolseley.

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She is famous not only as one of the best-selling authors in Great Britain, where she has sold almost a million copies of her books, but also for three extremely successful television shows: Home Cooking Made Easy, Baking Made Easy, which was broadcast from Australia to South Africa, and the book of the same name also supported the show. Her latest show Fast, Fresh and Easy Food offers quick, easy, nutritious and delicious recipes. In order for every cook to be as confident as possible in the kitchen, he tries to convince us with his latest book, How To Be A Better Cook. Her lifestyle company is rounded off by a store in London.

O'mami

O'mami is a new brand of accessible and modern food, behind which well-known faces, Luka Novak and Valentina Smej Novak, are standing, who designed it as a tangible and tasty continuation of their television and book cooking. Their cooking show Love Through the Stomach, which first appeared on the program in the fall of 2009, delighted viewers every week for several seasons in a row. In the same year, they published the cookbook Love through the stomach - Modern family cooking, which was the best-selling book in Slovenia in 2010. The book was followed by two more sequels, Love through the stomach 2 - Po zdravi pameti (2010) and Love through the stomach - Simply Slovenian (2011). Thus, the product line is a logical continuation of their story.

The brand is characterized by simple yet cosmopolitan tastes. The products avoid processed and industrial ingredients and use only high-quality primary foods, as each product is born in close development cooperation with the best Slovenian producers and is the result of many tests, when the know-how of home cooking meets the challenges of technology and controlled serial production. So already this year, we can find vegetable base, béchamel, Perfect biscuits, Perfect topping, Perfect snacks Naughty, Perfect snacks Hard... and in November, the new book Zlahka O'mami will also be on the shelves, which unfolds a different practical and aesthetic experience of cooking, mediated through sensitive photo lens of Ana Hribar, known as blogger Fensišmensi.