Stevo Karapandža

Stefan "Stevo" Karapandža (born 1947) is a popular celebrity chef in Croatia, Serbia and the former Yugoslavia.

Stevo Karapandža
Born
Stefan Karapandža

(1947-05-27) 27 May 1947
Zagreb, FPR Yugoslavia
Spouse(s)Renata
Children2
Culinary career

With Ivo Serdar, and later Oliver Mlakar, he co-hosted the popular Yugoslav weekly cooking show Male tajne velikih majstora kuhinje (Little Secrets of Great Chefs) produced by TV Zagreb starting in 1974, through to the start of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991 he received numerous threats from croatian nationalists because of his Serbian ethnicity. He then left Zagreb for Italy and settled in Switzerland, where he now lives and operates a restaurant in Ennetbaden. Though of Serbian origin, in 2004 he was ranked 10th in the Greatest Croatian poll conducted by Croatian weekly Nacional.[1][2][3][4][5]

The author of a number of popular cookbooks dating back to the 1980s, Karapandža's cookbook Moji najdraži recepti (My Favorite Recipes) was published in 2009.[6]

References
  1. Dean Sinovčić (2 February 2010). "Stevo Karapandža - četrdeset gastronomskih godina kuharske zvijezde" [Stevo Karapandža - forty gastronomic years of star chef] (in Croatian). Nacional. Archived from the original on 24 July 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  2. (9 January 2012). Male tajne velikog majstora kuhinje, Glas javnosti
  3. (29 August 2009). TV lica: Stevo Karapandža, Radio Television of Serbia
  4. (15 April 2009). New episode of "Little secrets from the great chiefs of cuisine", news release from Podravka (in English) (Podravka is a Croatian company which produces Vegeta, sponsor of the television show)
  5. (12 January 2004). The 'Greatest Croat', Transitions Online (in English)
  6. (1 February 2010). Swiss-Croatian culinary star's book of recipes, Corps Diplomatique Croatia
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