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Elena Makhonko was born in Leningrad/St Petersburg and moved to Sweden in the 1980s, where for her first 10 years she worked in the fashion industry before beginning a new career in Stockholm's biggest test kitchen. Elena has cooked food with celebrities including Roger More and Swedish president Goran Persson. She has more recently written for various food magazines and has also published several books about food.

Ewa Michalik jointly owns and runs the Patio Restaurant, one of the oldest and most successful Polish restaurants in London. Having been a guest on a recent broadcast on BBC Radio 5's Sunday morning show, Ewa has also spoken about beetroot on BBC Radio 4's Veg Talk and prepared traditional dishes for various BBC programmes on eastern European cooking.