The Chef-fe Series 2024 - Douce Steine

Douce Steiner is the only female chef in Germany to hold two Michelin stars. Steiner grew up in her parents' hotel and restaurant Hirschen in the small town Sulzburg in South-Western Germany, which is rooted in 500 years of culinary traditions. After learning the ropes as a chef in her fathers' business, she trained with renowned and highly decorated chefs such as Georges Blanc, Fritz Schilling and Harald Wohlfahrt. During her time at Wohlfahrt's Schwarzwaldstube restaurant in Baiersbronn, she met her husband Udo Weiler, whom she married in 1997. Together they returned to the family business in Sulzburg in 1998 and both joined Steiner's father in the kitchen at Hirschen, which had been awarded two Michelin stars in 1995. Steiner took over from her father in 2008, regaining both Michelin stars in 2012.
Of today's culinary industry, Steiner says: ‘It would be nice if all stakeholders in gastronomy worked more closely together, exchanging information on prices for instance, and on many other topics. Everyone keeps to themselves a little too much, and I believe it is essential to give women a greater say. They have a different approach, perhaps a less pretentious one.
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