• Publisher: Kmečki glas
• 184 pages
• Author: Gregor Podržaj
• Original title: Kuhajmo z ognjem

60 recipes for preparing all kinds of meat, fish and traditional bread and sweet pastry delicacies. Where there’s smoke, there’s fire, and where there’s fire, there’s flavour. Cooking with fire is a special experience. You have to take your time, however, because with this method of food preparation, the flavours develop slowly. The author’s guiding principle is – less is more. The recipes don’t feature many ingredients, but they are carefully selected and of the best quality. The author inspires us to prepare food using fire – on the grill and spit, slow-cooked under coals, in the cauldron, bread oven and wood-fired stove. The exquisite dishes are seasoned with interesting stories and culinary tips, which the author diligently collected during his many years of cooking for family and friends.

About the author

Gregor Podržaj

The author of the book is not a professional chef, but he loves to cook. Creating in the kitchen is fulfilling, relaxing and satisfying for him. Even when his dishes don’t go so well, he doesn’t get angry. The author checks exactly where he made a mistake and does it differently next time. He has met many wonderful people while cooking. And he also got to know those he met elsewhere even better when cooking. Gregor believes that cooking and eating is a kind of intimate experience that brings us closer together. Additionally, he also has a job that is somehow related to cooking. He is the owner and director of a company that manufactures wood-burning stoves, bread ovens and other similar cooking appliances. His profession simply fascinates him. One of the reasons he believes their products are of such high quality and appreciated is that he and his colleagues love to cook and eat well. That’s why they also know the products perfectly from the user’s point of view.