Robert Makłowicz is a Polish

Poland

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 journalist and historian, notable as a promoter of the Polish cuisine

Polish cuisine

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, slow food

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, and is a television

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 personality.

He became fascinated with European cuisine

European cuisine

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 during his studies at the historical faculty of the Jagiellonian University

Jagiellonian University

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. After the end of communism in Poland, in 1993 as a joke he had shown one of his friends a recipe for wiener schnitzel

Wiener schnitzel

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 he prepared himself. He was instantly offered the job of a culinary critic of the Kraków variation of the Gazeta Wyborcza

Gazeta Wyborcza

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 daily. Soon afterwards his essays and descriptions of various restaurants in Kraków became so popular that he was moved to the all-national weekly magazine published by Gazeta Wyborcza. He also started cooperation with various other newspapers, including Przekrój

Przekrój

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, Wprost

Wprost

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 (2002-2005) and Newsweek Polska

Newsweek Polska

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 (since 2005).

In 1996 he was also offered a short programme in the morning block of the public TV. Although far from prime time

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, the programme gained much popularity and, since August 1998, Makłowicz has been preparing a weekly show named Robert Makłowicz's Culinary Travels. Each show is prepared in a different region of the world and presents the local cuisine as prepared by Makłowicz himself or by local people, not necessarily professional chefs.

Makłowicz also published a number of books on culinary traditions of his homeland, Galicia. The first of the series, the C.K. Kuchnia (K.u.K.

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 Cuisine) became a nation-wide best-seller.

Other Robert Makłowicz's books:

• Zjeść Kraków (Eating Cracow, 2001) with Stanisław Mancewicz
• Dialogi języka z podniebieniem(Dialogues of a tongue with a palate, 2003) with Piotr Bikont
  Piotr Bikont
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• Czy wierzyć platynowym blondynkom? (Do you believe platinum blondes?, 2004)