Check out joys of Czech cuisine

Evie's on a mission to spread the word about the food of her heritage

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Evie Harbury.

Czech cuisine is "kind of a mystery" to most British people, says chef and cookery author Evie Harbury - "apart from the beer".

Czechia, or the Czech Republic, is probably best known for its capital Prague, but its food has gone a little under the radar. "People sometimes can't even place it on a map," the 31-year-old notes.

England-born with Czech heritage on her dad's side of the family, Harbury spent her childhood summers visiting her grandmother in South Bohemia, an hour from Prague, making hot chocolate on a wood-fired stove and cooking traditional špekáček sausages over an open fire. "She was in a retired flour mill in a little hamlet, very rural, really off grid."