When a young Snežana “Snez” Calic moved to Serbia from Croatia during the Balkan War in the 1990s, she couldn’t have imagined that the experience would one day advance her culinary repertoire.
“I saw things that little kids should never see,” the 40-year-old financial services worker recalls. “But I don’t like to look at the negatives. Look at where it led me!”
In the kitchen from the age of seven, Snez learned how to cook dishes from across the region – meals her mother Mira would make, such as stews, pastas, curries and soups.
“They might not be as pretty as mine,” she jokes. “But, my gosh, they’re a flavour bomb. When she makes something, you lick the pot clean.”
Snez – who has two children, Lenka, seven, and Lazar,…
