Dutch Master Chef Angélique Schmeinck, a Brief biography:

Creative Flavour as the Spice of Life

Culinary art photography, life-size edible paintings, skyborne dinners cooked with the warmth of an hot-air balloon from her own CuliAir-balloon restaurant (unique in the world), and inspirational live performances that caress the tongue and dazzle the senses: master chef, award winning author and TV show host Angélique Schmeinck never ceases to amaze.

Translating her love for gastronomy into a broader range of ventures, she keeps coming up with new ideas and unexpected applications. Drawing from her richly seasoned background of culinary achievements, Angélique Schmeinck is a Dutch Master Chef in more than one sense. Blending and fusing the Art of Flavour and the Palate of Creativity, she dishes up her unique servings of mouth-watering innovation and creative delights.

Stay Hungry – Remain Tasteful
Driven by a persistent hunger for pivotal new ingredients and unexpected matters of taste, Angélique constantly expands the connections between her master chef’s background and an insatiable creative appetite. As she gently stirs her live audiences and the patrons at her table to an inspirational boiling point, the air grows heavy with the scent of inspiring ideas and the aroma of unexpected solutions…

Keeping Tasty Inspiration on the Menu
With nine tasty books to her name, Angélique has incorporated her training at the Centre for Development of Creative Thought into her chef’s repertoire. Her keen interest in photography led to the opening of her Culinary Gallery, where art photography becomes a kitchen utensil and any fridge can serve as a modelling agency.  Her artistic take on flavour gave birth to Foodpainting, in which interlocking plates provide a canvas for expressive ingredients, portraying artful flavour compositions that amount to true edible paintings of up to 200 square feet. Visually, her uniquely inspiring Flavourdesign and Flavourgraphics provide new insights into thought processes that tend to stick to the pan. In line with her globetrotting, boundary-crossing nature, her Skydining flights take gourmets on a heavenly tour of culinary heights as Angélique prepares dizzying dishes using the hot air of the balloon itself! Always rousing the senses and seasoning emotions, there is no telling where her culinary creativity will take you next!

Generous Servings of Food For Thought
Savouring Angélique’s culinary performances, you start to wonder: why use your stock ingredients and basic notions to keep repeating tried and tasted recipes? There’s a whole world of dazzling taste combinations and delicious inspiration waiting out there! Cast aside your old mental cookbooks, then, and clear out the fridge of your psyche before the contents grow stale. Rest assured that once you sink your teeth into the beyond-nouvelle-cuisine cooked up by this thought-provoking culinarian, your familiar thought patterns will never taste the same again. Never listen when they tell you not to play with your food: savoury ideas, picture-perfect ingredients, thought-provoking edibles and high-flying feasts are coming your way! Keep on growing as a man or woman of taste – Master Chef Schmeinck will whet your appetite for novelty and creativity, leaving you hungry for more after every single bite!