Czech chef's recipe chosen among world's ten best in new international cookbook

A recipe from a Czech chef has been included in a list of top 10 recipes from around the world.

Zdeněk Pohlreich chef at Café Imperial, Next Door by Imperial, and Divinis, was chosen for inclusion in a newly released digital cookbook called “Culinary Perspectives: The Gourmet's Journey Across Cultures.”

The chosen dish was a young goose with sauerkraut, which was featured alongside dishes from New York, Madrid, and Sao Paulo amongst others.

The Czech chef told Lidovky:

"It's a great honor, I'm usually proud of it. I love the feeling when you're part of something great, that touch of almost perfection is incredibly uplifting.”

Pohlreich not only cooks but has appeared on a number of Czech television shows such as Ano, šéfe! (Yes, chef!), Ted’ varí šéf! (Now It’s The Chef’sTurn To Cook!) and Superšéf: 24 hodin do pekla a zpet (Superchef: 24-hours To Hell And Back Again).

The cookbook is put together by Lexus International which has chosen from a number of their culinary partners.

Lexus had help from writer and editor Joshua David Stein, whose work has appeared in the Best American Food Writing and a former restaurant critic for the Village Voice and New York Observer.

Pohlreich called the recipe one of his favorites Czech dishes, a close second to kulajda with a poached egg. "We have had it on the Café Imperial menu for 13 years. It's a regular in the best sense of the word," he said.

The café may currently be closed but fans of the famed Prague culinary institution can order a lunchtime chef's box for delivery.

And if you want to try and make Pohlreich’s young goose with sauerkraut, the recipe is available online.