Biography
Sabine Hueck was born and grew up in São Paulo, a city known for being the gastronomical capital in Latin America. The huge culinary variety is connected directly to the city's history: São Paulo has always been multicultural even before multiculturalism was invented. Since the early twentieth century immigrants arrived not only from Europe, Japan and Middle Eastern countries, but also people from every corner from Brazil. São Paulo's cuisine is a direct result of this cultural mix. In her childhood, Sabine Hueck was inspired by this kind of diversity. At the age of 10 she followed grandmother's steps in a pastry shop located on a beach not far from São Paulo, where she made her first culinary experiments. Sabine studied gastronomy at The Kermess Hotelschule in Passing, Munich, followed by an internship at The Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski, in the same city.
Sabine continued her education in the gastronomy at the New Yorker Institute for Culinary Education, the Chiang Mai Cookery School, Blue Elephant in Bangkok, and in Fish (Seafood) Restaurants across the Caribbean and in northern Brazil. Sabine's cuisine has been inspired by her experience in Peru, Bolivia, Switzerland, and Germany. These experiences are represented in her limitless cooking style. In 1996, she founded her own pastry shop in the Brazilian city-island Florianópolis. Since then she has worked independently in the gastronomical business. The past nine years she has been working in Berlin, where she remains active as businesswoman in catering, as a gastronomic adviser, and a culinary teacher at the most important culinary school of this city. Her cuisine - be it in the patisserie or in her tasty specialties - combines aesthetic accuracy with her unique taste, from which unexpected yet precise ingredient-combinations emerge.