Ida Kleijnen (17 March 1936 – 15 January 2019) was a Dutch

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chef.

Life and career

Kleijnen was born on 17 March 1936. She was self-taught. She worked at the

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before turning her guest house into a restaurant called De Lindenhorst. She won a

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in 1983 which she held onto until 1994 when she handed the business over to her son, Paul. In 1991, she was voted the best female chef in the

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and between 1997 and 2010, she gave cooking lessons. She died on 15 January 2019.

References

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