For Yahoo: Slovenia's Ana Ros named world's best female chef 2017
Stock image by Neven Krcmarek
Jan. 24, 2017
It's not just America's new First Lady Melania Trump who is putting Slovenia on the map.
In the culinary world, there's another Slovenian woman who is fast gaining worldwide recognition, this time for being a gastronomic virtuoso in the kitchen.
The seventh recipient of the World's Best Female Chef award is Ana Ros of Hisa Franko restaurant in Kobarid, Slovenia.
Ros's rise to the top as a chef of haute -- and unexpected -- gastronomy is all the more remarkable as she is completely self-taught, and her career in food accidental.
After meeting her husband Valter, Ros -- who is also a former ski champion -- turned down an offer to work as a diplomat in Brussels, choosing instead to stay in Slovenia and help run his family's restaurant.
To master the craft, Ros traveled and dined at other restaurants where she decrypted recipes and sought inspiration to create her own signature, culinary philosophy -- one that hinges on local products like homemade butter, Tolminc cheese, lamb, and the influences of neighboring Italy, Hungary, Austria and Croatia.
Through trial and error, Ros eventually developed her own gastronomic identity, one that recently caught the attention of the food world via the popular Netflix series "Chef's Table" in an episode that aired last year.
Read more at https://www.yahoo.com/news/slovenias-ana-ros-named-worlds-best-female-chef-154618331.html
