The unlikely story of the world's best female chef Ana Ros

Her restaurant ranks No 69 in the world, according to the World's 50 Best Restaurants organisation

Ana Roš is the most unlikely of chefs. She never wanted to be one and she never studied cooking. So how come she won the title of World’s Best Female Chef this year?

It’s quite a story. “I come from a society that doesn’t have a tradition of gastronomy, where cooking is not a prestigious job,” she says in an interview at her isolated restaurant Hiša Franko in a valley in western Slovenia. These days, diners make the journey from as far away as Australia, and you need to book months ahead. Roš never saw that coming.

As a teenager,