Marco Krainer (Marco Wolfgang Krainer, born October 4, 1981, in

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital of ...

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) is an

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n specialty

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who works as a TV and Radio chef. Krainer grew up in

Carinthia Carinthia (german: Kärnten ; sl, Koroška ) is the southernmost States of Austria, Austrian state, in the Eastern Alps, and is noted for its mountains and lakes. The main language is German language, German. Its regional dialects belong to t ...

, Austria's most southern province, where he also currently resides. In Carinthia, he attended the Culinary and Tourism Technical College in Oberwollanig by

Villach Villach (; sl, Beljak; it, Villaco; fur, Vilac) is the seventh-largest city in Austria and the second-largest in the federal state of Carinthia. It is an important traffic junction for southern Austria and the whole Alpe-Adria region. , the po ...

, the same institution his colleague,

Wolfgang Puck Wolfgang Johannes Puck (born July 8, 1949) is an Austrian-American chef and restaurateur. Early life and career Puck was born in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria. He learned cooking from his mother, who was a pastry chef. He took the surname o ...

attended, who has become one of the most famous chefs in the

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. Early on, Krainer became interested in public broadcast programs, which dealt with nutrition issues, particularly “Hobbythek” in the German Broadcast Station WDR. In February 2002, the first invitation came from the WDR Studio in

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. At first, Krainer was responsible for research and development of the recipes. Later, it was decided to give him time in front of the camera as “Hobbythek-Chef”. He is busy as show-chef for meetings, presentations, food shows and cooking classes. The unusual concept of “Cooking on the Radio” became very successful. On the Austrian regional Broadcast

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Radio Carinthia, Krainer regularly cooks live in the studio. In 2004, he presented to the audience an erotic menu during his debut at the TV station VOX (

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) in the erotic magazine “Wa(h)re Liebe” (True love or love for sale) with

Lilo Wanders Ernst-Johann "Ernie" Reinhardt (born 22 September 1955), better known as Lilo Wanders, is a German transvestite actor, comedian and theatre/television host. Born in Celle, Reinhardt attended the Gymnasium Walsrode and went on to become an enter ...

whose program has achieved cult status. Krainer's primary focus is on the American, Austrian, Italian and Asian cuisine. Because of his partiality to pumpkins, he had his own Hobbythek pumpkin program filmed in Krainer's private pumpkin patch in Austria.

External links

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References

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