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You can say home cooking is simple, but it's not an insult
You can't miss Silvena Rowe, she takes over a room. She stands 6 feet tall and has a shock of short, white-blonde hair. She's an admired celebrity chef in London, where she has the restaurant Quince in the very elegant May Fair hotel.
Her food is essentially Middle Eastern, yet it is far from the usual pita bread and kabobs. You have to imagine a love of the exotic: pistachios and cumin, rose petals and lemony sumac. Rowe is the author of Purple Citrus and Sweet Perfume: Cuisine of the Eastern Mediterranean.
Lynne Rossetto Kasper: Where did you grow up?
Silvena Rowe: I grew up in communist Bulgaria, which was very shaped by Turkish influences. It still is, even today -- actually more so today. Basically, Bulgaria was part of the Turkish empire, the Ottoman empire, for years. Five hundred years of influences do not wear off easily.
My father was from Turkish Ottoman origin and my mother is Bulgarian. I grew up in a family with amazing, delicious foods -- simple, yet very, very tasty. It was a taste that got you excited because when you're a child, there are very few things that could excite you in communist Bulgaria. There was no Disney, there were no toys, so food for me was
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Meet the sauciest chef on TV: The BBC's feisty new cookery star Silvena Rowe says she's flirting her way to the top
- Moved to Britain from Bulgaria as a teenager
- New star of BBC food show Country Show Cook-Off
By NICOLE LAMPERT FOR THE DAILY MAIL
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When Silvena Rowe first arrived in Britain from Bulgaria as a teenager she knew just one word of English - 'hungry'. A strapping six-footer who'd been obsessed with food from her earliest days ('I was a very greedy child'), she was determined to eat well in the UK.
Now she has several award-winning cookery books to her name, is about to star in a new BBC food show and has plans for her own restaurant chain; all of which has forced her to reluctantly quit her job as head chef at Quince, the smart restaurant adjoining The May Fair Hotel in London.
The night before we meet she had boy band One Direction in her kitchen after they booked a private dinner there to celebrate Louis's birthday. 'They were tremendously respectful and polite,' she says. 'They were so cute and fresh. I do hear they like an older woman!'
Silvena Rowe with Aldo Zilli on Country Show Cook-Off
And that's Silvena all over - a fascinating mix of feline-eyed sensuality mixed with tough-as-old-boots attitude. When she was once asked