Mette Jæger Blomsterberg (born 20 July 1970) is a Danish

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and cookbook writer. She has been a judge in the television programme ''Den store bagedyst'', the Danish equivalent of

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Biography

Born in

Helsingør Helsingør ( , ; sv, Helsingör), classically known in English as Elsinore ( ), is a city in eastern Denmark. Helsingør Municipality had a population of 62,686 on 1 January 2018. Helsingør and Helsingborg in Sweden together form the northern ...

in 1970, Blomsterberg was trained as a pastry cook at Kransekagehuset, a Copenhagen bakery. She is married to Henrik Jæger whom she met in Helsingør in 1992. They have two children. Henrik, who has changed his name to Blomsterberg, works with his wife in the café they established in

Lyngby Kongens Lyngby (, Danish for "the King's Heather Town"; short form Lyngby) is the seat and commercial centre of Lyngby-Taarbæk Municipality in the northern suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark. Lyngby Hovedgade is a busy shopping street and the site of ...

in 2014. Mette Blomsterberg had previously worked as a pastry chef at the

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ("ny" means "new" in Danish; "Glyptotek" comes from the Greek root ''glyphein'', to carve, and ''theke'', storing place), commonly known simply as Glyptoteket, is an art museum in Copenhagen, Denmark. The collection ...

(1995–2011) before opening a café in

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in 2011.

Publications

Mette Blomsterberg has published the following cookbooks, all in Danish: * * * * *

References

External links

Mette Blomsterberg's website
(in Danish) 1970 births Danish restaurateurs Danish bakers Danish television personalities Danish women writers Danish cookbook writers Women cookbook writers Women restaurateurs Pastry chefs People from Helsingør Living people {{denmark-writer-stub