Alexandra Zazzi

Alexandra Zazzi at the Gothenburg Book Fair 2009

Maria Alexandra Paula Louise Jademyr Zazzi (born June 7, 1966 in Rapallo , Italy ) is a Swedish cook , journalist and author of cookbooks.

Life

Her grandfather worked in the Italian embassy in Berlin during the Second World War . He helped Jews leave Germany without a Jewish star in their passports. When the authorities became aware of him, he fled to Stockholm . Her father, a geologist, grew up in Sweden and during a hospital stay met her mother, a Swedish nurse. When the father received a scholarship in Italy, the family moved there and Zazzi grew up in the northern Italian city of Rapallo. After the outbreak of the oil crisis , she moved back to Sweden in 1977.

Zazzi achieved her big breakthrough in 1998 as the first female winner of the docusoap expedition Robinson . She then went public as the presenter of the cookery programs Köket on the Swedish television channel TV4 and Menu on the Swedish radio station Sveriges Radio P1 . In addition, she worked as a reporter for the television station TV3 and other radio and television programs. She writes for several newspapers, for example reports and chronicles for Göteborgs-Posten and cookery magazines. She has published four cookbooks to date and operates two restaurants in Gothenburg .

Works

Grytboken: fyrtiofem recept av kända och okända svenska matkonstnärer , 1999, ISBN 91-630-8804-5
Zazzis pasta , 2003, ISBN 91-27-35506-3
Sunt med Zazzi , 2005, ISBN 91-27-35633-7
Zazzis mat: med smak av Italy , 2005, ISBN 91-27-35642-6
Torsdagarna med Zazzi: filosofi, känsla och kärlek till mat , 2008, ISBN 978-91-85617-07-4

Prizes and awards

Winner of the Dokusoap Expedition Robinson 1998
Winner of the national championship Koch (Swedish: Riksmästerskapet i matlagning ) 2006

Web links

Commons : Alexandra Zazzi - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Alexandra Zazzi in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Zazzis homepage with short résumé and activities (Swedish)

Livsformen.se Zazzis Blog ( Memento from March 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Swedish)

Individual evidence

↑ Alexandra Zazzi: I Sverige blev vi 100 procent svartskallar över en natt in Dagens Nyheter of May 29, 2011 (Swedish), accessed on March 17, 2012

personal data
SURNAME	Zazzi, Alexandra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zazzi, Maria Alexandra Paula Louise Jademyr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish journalist and cook
DATE OF BIRTH	June 7, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rapallo , Italy

[1] Alexandra Zazzi: I Sverige blev vi 100 procent svartskallar över en natt in Dagens Nyheter of May 29, 2011 (Swedish), accessed on March 17, 2012