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the Scadinavian counterpart of America's Martha Stewart. Between her
restaurant appearances, cookbooks, television shows and kitchen products,
there are few areas of the food industry the celebrity chef has left untouched.
But despite her success today, there was a time Nordström wasn't sure a career
in cooking was the path for her. Here's how a girl from a small town in southern
Sweden came to be one of the country's most celebrated personalities
" I was probably made in the kitchen, "
Nordström says with a laugh, recalling
her early introduction to cooking.
Her parents owned and operated
the restaurant Ramlösa Wärdshus in
Helsingborg, Sweden, where Nordström
was born and lived with her parents and
grandparents. Though she wasn't old
enough to work at the restaurant, she
would come by every day after school,
snagging bites of food from the chefs
and getting help on her homework from
the waitstaff. " It was kind of a huge
family, " she says. " I couldn't compare
my life to my friends. They had parents
who worked Monday through Friday.
I had my parents around because we
lived next to the restaurant. "
Nordström's childhood was filled
with family recipes, old-fashioned
techniques and traditional ingredients,
but even though she had a front-row
seat to the inner workings of the
business, she didn't see cooking as
her lifelong career. " It was more like
my everyday life, " she says. " I didn't
realize then that it was a gift to actually
see everything in the kitchen. I saw
everything and I tasted everything. But
that it should be my work when I grew
up ... I didn't know. It wasn't something
I wanted, I guess. "
That changed around age 15, when
she needed to make a decision about
her future. Her mandatory schooling
would end at 16, after which she
could attend upper secondary school
to prepare for college or participate
in vocational training. Admitting to
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not being " brilliant in school " when
it came to subjects like Swedish and
English, Nordström opted for the latter
and enrolled in a three-year cooking
program.
Upon graduation, she took a job
in the pastry section of a Denmark
restaurant-a choice that would launch
her career and offer her the opportunity
to showcase her craft at renown eateries
like Petri Pumpa in Sweden, Restaurant
i Ålsgårdel in Denmark and The French
Laundry in California over the years.
Prior to 2000, Nordström was not
yet a household name. She had been
cooking in various restaurants around
Scandinavia for the past decade when
she was named one of eight finalists
for Sweden's Chef of the Year Award,
a prestigious honor a woman had not
achieved in 12 years.
" I love to compete in everything, "
she says of the annual event, which
was started in 1983 to draw awareness
to the cooking profession, and today
attracts more than 4,000 chefs,
producers, politicians and spectators for
the final held every December. " I don't
know if I realized that I was the only
woman at the time, but then it was a big
issue. I was standing on the stage with
all the men, and I loved it. "
Though Nordström didn't win, " it
was the beginning of everything-it
was the springboard, " she says. Shortly
after the competition, she was contacted
by television producers looking for a
Swedish female chef to host her own
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