Flora Turner-Vučetić – special guest of the round table
Flora Turner-Vučetić, the author of “The Sweet Taste of a Dalmatian Love Affair – Croatian family recipes” (Archaeopress, Oxford) will be a special guest of the round table „Mediterranean diet – how to preserve it?“. At the end of the presentation, which will be held on Saturday 30th of May at 11 am in the Museum of the city
Flora Turner-Vučetić, the author of “The Sweet Taste of a Dalmatian Love Affair – Croatian family recipes” (Archaeopress, Oxford) will be a special guest of the round table „Mediterranean diet – how to preserve it?“. At the end of the presentation, which will be held on Saturday 30th of May at 11 am in the Museum of the city of Šibenik, the author will sign her book.
Flora Turner-Vučetić is an art historian and journalist whose career has included being a museum curator, broadcaster and diplomat. Born in Hvar, Croatia in 1944. Attended primary and secondary schools in Split and graduated Art History, English Language and Literature and Museology at the University in Zagreb. Specialised in broadcasting journalism at the BBC World Service in London. She worked as a Senior Curator in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Zagreb, a broadcasting journalist and editor at the Croatian Section of BBC World Service, London, and as Counsellor for cultural, scientific and educational affairs at the Embassy of the Republic of Croatia in London. For her contribution to Croatian culture the Government of the Republic of Croatia has awarded her the Order of Merit (Danica with the image of Marko Marulić), and as recognition for the advancement and promotion of Croatian art at home and broad the Society of Art Historians has honoured her with the “Radovan Ivančević”award.
Delicacies from her Grandmother’s cookbook have been enjoyed by her family and a generation of prominent Croatian artists, writers, architects, actors and academics.
