Stevo Karapandža

Stefan "Stevo" Karapandža (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан "Стево" Карапанџа; born 27 May 1947) is a Yugoslavian, Croatian and Serbian celebrity chef. With Ivo Serdar, and later Oliver Mlakar, he co-hosted the popular Yugoslav weekly cooking show Little Secrets of Great Chefs produced by TV Zagreb starting in 1974.

Stevo Karapandža
Стево Карапанџа
Born
Stefan Karapandža

(1947-05-27) 27 May 1947
Karlovac, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia
SpouseRenata
Children2
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
  • Sunce
Television show(s)

At the start of the Yugoslav Wars in 1991, he received numerous threats from Croatian nationalists because of his Serb origins. He then left Zagreb for Italy and settled in Switzerland, where he now lives and operates a restaurant in Ennetbaden. Of paternal Serb and maternal Croat descent,[1] in 2004 he was ranked tenth in the Greatest Croatian poll conducted by Croatian weekly Nacional.[2][3][4][5][6]

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.[7]

References
  1. Kovačević, Radmila (17 February 2021). "'Zagreb je moj grad, tu sam naučio sve, a onda je odjednom postalo važno što sam Stevo, a ne Štef'". Večernji list (in Croatian). Retrieved 12 January 2023.
  2. 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 20 November 2013. Retrieved 25 July 2012.
  3. (9 January 2012). Male tajne velikog majstora kuhinje, Glas javnosti
  4. (29 August 2009). TV lica: Stevo Karapandža, Radio Television of Serbia
  5. (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)
  6. (12 January 2004). The 'Greatest Croat', Transitions Online (in English)
  7. (1 February 2010). Swiss-Croatian culinary star's book of recipes, Corps Diplomatique Croatia
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