Stevo Karapandža () born 13th September 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.
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 lived 24 years and operated a restaurant in Ennetbaden before retiring.
Of paternal Serb and maternal Croat descent, in 2004 he was ranked tenth in the Greatest Croatian poll conducted by Croatian weekly Nacional.(9 January 2012). Male tajne velikog majstora kuhinje, Glas javnosti(29 August 2009). TV lica: Stevo Karapandža, Radio Television of Serbia(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)(12 January 2004). The 'Greatest Croat', Transitions Online (in English)
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.(1 February 2010). Swiss-Croatian culinary star's book of recipes, Corps Diplomatique Croatia
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