Guest chefs

Culinary Institute Kul IN strives to bring its students closer to the culinary profession through guest lectures and demo presentations by eminent chefs. Croatia's most famous restaurant pastry chef and chocolatier Robert Bašić recently visited Kul IN, and extra seats were hard to find at his demonstration. Chef Bašić was a fantastic mentor, answering all of the students' questions without hesitation as he shared stories from his professional and private life experiences.

"I believe cooking is the best way to get in touch with history, different cultures, and nature as well. When you cook, you activate all your senses, hearing, sight and, of course, taste."

The culinary heritage of China has left a profound impact on global gastronomy. The unique techniques of thermal processing, pairing and serving foods are an example to chefs around the world. The charm and discipline of Cantonese cuisine were presented to us by our guests, first class chefs Chan Chun Hung and Leung Kim Sum, instructors from the Chinese Culinary Institute CCI in Hong Kong. Discover with us the magic of Hong Kong and the secrets of classical Cantonese Dim Sum.

"I think that cooking is a very humoral matter. When you do something for the sake of doing it and you manage to go outside the box you get the best results. Most of the time routines kills creativity, as a consequence, by avoiding it I have always obtained great satisfaction."

Tihomir Smoljanec, owner of Meat the King, specialized butchery, master of meat aging and true lover of the quality of the breed of Black Slavonian pig, once again through his guest lecture successfully showed our students the importance of quality and origin of foods. While the baby beef rib eye was being prepared on a pan, and while the students were tasting dry aged beef T-bone, Tihomir shared his thoughts on livestock breeding and meat in general.