{"id":37194,"date":"2020-06-07T06:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-07T04:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/?p=37194"},"modified":"2020-08-27T12:32:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-27T10:32:22","slug":"the-column-with-simone-b-michielen-june-culinary-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-slovenia.com\/en\/gastronomy\/food\/the-column-with-simone-b-michielen-june-culinary-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The Column with Simone B. Michielen: June &#8211; culinary month"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>When we arrived in Slovenia in 2004, after our 5 years in Spain, we were a little bit in shock about the culinary offer. Not only most restaurants were disappointing, also the offer in shops and even the bigger shops made us often doubt if we made the right choice. Maybe it had to do with our settlement in a valley one hour away from Ljubljana, but we proofed already in Spain that we were willing to drive 4 hours (one way) for a good restaurant. <\/strong><\/h2><p>I must say,\nit made creative. I cooked even more and better than before and started to\ncreate recipes to get the result that we liked. Of course we heard about some\ngood restaurants, one seemed to be in Kobarid, one in our own Logarska valley,\nbut somehow, we missed finesse, fantasy, knowledge and taste. I guess we were\njust too early\u2026 <\/p><p>Things\nchanged, rapidly. New chefs, new restaurants, new influences, an open world\nwhere chefs went to get new knowledge, I was there when it happened and it\ncouldn\u2019t make me happier. Ambitious people with high goals, somewhere hidden\nand discovered like treasures, wow! It was no surprise that we couldn\u2019t keep\nthis for ourselves, although I am sure we tried, like the finding places of our\nmushrooms ;-). But Slovenia was discovered and there was no stopping it. Even\nMichelin found us\u2026<\/p><p>Michelin\nstarted making tyres in the late 19<sup>th<\/sup> century and as a gesture for\ntheir clients with their beautiful \u201cautomobiles\u201d they decide in 1900 to make a\nlittle red guide with advice for drivers. How to change your tyres, where to go\nfor gasoline. For free. To make travelling even more fun the hotels and\nrestaurants recommendations were added in the twenties, 100 years ago. At first\nonly one star, later with a real ranking. Which would, as they thought, make\nthe people drive more kilometres, and result in more tyres to be sold. It\nworked, not only is the Michelin guide rouge is still a bible when it comes to\nrestaurant ratings, it also became a company in itself and over 20 million\nbooks are sold every year. Also I use it when I am somewhere without my own\nnetwork. The system is simple, recommendations are from a place to visit when\nyou are around *star, to ***stars: a place to make a special journey for. <\/p><p>With a last\nname that is often pronounced as Michelin (#nofamily) and travelling parents\nwith &nbsp;a big heart for good food, it is no\nsurprise that I grew up with Le Guide Rouge. <\/p><p>This month\nis rating month in many ways, by many organisations. But don\u2019t make it a law. I\nhad the best meals in restaurants with not one notification anywhere, like a perfect\nmemory of a small place where the owner just started cooking (although closed\nthat day) in an old dirty T-shirt and his dog hanging around in the kitchen and\nwhere we ended up with a 5 course delicious surprising menu (France \u2013 2002) and\nwas totally disappointed in a top rated restaurant that we drove 2 hours for, because\nof the silly small portions of not even very complex tastes compromised with\nkilos of bread (Slovenia \u2013 2017). A guide is a guide, not a decree. You don\u2019t\nhave to be satisfied because others were, but it can help you to make a choice.\nBut in the end it is all about trying the food!<\/p><p>Bon\nappetite!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we arrived in Slovenia in 2004, after our 5 years in Spain, we were a little bit in shock about the culinary offer. Not only most restaurants were disappointing, also the offer in shops and even the bigger shops made us often doubt if we made the right choice. 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