ANA ROs

Alpine skiing prodigy, graduate of diplomacy, and spokesman of Slovenian gastronomy, Roš is a self-taught cook. She met her business partner and former life partner Valter Kramar while studying in Gorizia in northeastern Italy. His parents owned Hiša Franko, an already established restaurant near the Italian border, and the couple decided to take it over. He worked as a sommelier, she as a waitress, eventually stepping into the kitchen when the chef left. With help from a family friend and hours and hours of reading cookbooks, she experimented with updating traditional recipes from the upper Soča valley and by 2010 had started gaining an international reputation. She was crowned Best Female Chef by The World’s 50 Best Restaurant list, and in 2017, she was the subject of an episode of Chef’s Table.