I'm really glad about the fact that Ana was featured on Chef's Table. Of course, one may always criticize that what she's doing there isn't a lot different from what so many other restaurants are trying to do, in terms of local ingredients and respect towards the environment. But I see her from a little different perspective. Not only was this episode much more pleasing than a lot of the others from a viewer's perspective, but it was her character that made it even more so. In this episode, I see two really different aspects that work so great together. For one, there's the fact that she was more or less forced to take over the kitchen and learn virtually everything on her own, in a more or less unknown conservative country scarred by communism, with a quasi non-existent culinary history. And then there's this spark of her, this unexpected entrepreneurial sense and her craving for freedom and the expression of creativity. And somehow, God knows how, over a long course with a lot of rough patches, she managed to combine all that and lift both herself and her restaurant up to a level that's really hard to beat. With a little outside help, she managed to place herself onto the international map of gastronomic highlights and give Slovenia some sense of gastronomic identity. Doing all this while preserving her being down to earth and continuing this journey really deserves all of the respect there is. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how she and her husband develop themselves even further over the next years.
Review by Matthias RadakovitsBlockedParent2016-07-23T20:33:48Z
I'm really glad about the fact that Ana was featured on Chef's Table.
Of course, one may always criticize that what she's doing there isn't a lot different from what so many other restaurants are trying to do, in terms of local ingredients and respect towards the environment.
But I see her from a little different perspective.
Not only was this episode much more pleasing than a lot of the others from a viewer's perspective, but it was her character that made it even more so.
In this episode, I see two really different aspects that work so great together.
For one, there's the fact that she was more or less forced to take over the kitchen and learn virtually everything on her own, in a more or less unknown conservative country scarred by communism, with a quasi non-existent culinary history.
And then there's this spark of her, this unexpected entrepreneurial sense and her craving for freedom and the expression of creativity.
And somehow, God knows how, over a long course with a lot of rough patches, she managed to combine all that and lift both herself and her restaurant up to a level that's really hard to beat.
With a little outside help, she managed to place herself onto the international map of gastronomic highlights and give Slovenia some sense of gastronomic identity.
Doing all this while preserving her being down to earth and continuing this journey really deserves all of the respect there is. And I'm really looking forward to seeing how she and her husband develop themselves even further over the next years.