Stefan "Stevo" Karapandža ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан "Стево" Карапанџа; born 27 May 1947) is a Yugoslavian, Croatian and Serbian

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. With

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, and later

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, he co-hosted the popular Yugoslav weekly cooking show ''Little Secrets of Great Chefs'' produced by

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starting in 1974. At the start of the

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in 1991, he received numerous threats from

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because of his

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origins. He then left

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for Italy and settled in

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, where he now lives and operates a restaurant in

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. Of paternal Serb and maternal

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descent, in 2004 he was ranked tenth in the Greatest Croatian poll conducted by Croatian weekly ''

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''.(9 January 2012)
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''(15 April 2009)
New episode of "Little secrets from the great chiefs of cuisine"
news release from

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(in English) (Podravka is a Croatian company which produces

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, sponsor of the television show)(12 January 2004)
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'' (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''

References

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