The winner of the second season of “Master Chef” Elizaveta Glinskaya proved by personal example that even the most terrible tragedy can be experienced and begin to live anew, if you believe in yourself and your strength. A fragile girl with sad eyes has incredible will and determination. She was able to drastically change her life and as close as possible to the realization of her dreams.
About life before the project "Master Chef"
Elizaveta Glinskaya was born in 1983 in Zaporizhia (Ukraine), and when she was 12 years old, she and her parents moved to Alupka (Crimea). In childhood, the future winner of the culinary show dreamed of a career and entering the theater.
In 2006, Elizabeth graduated from the Crimean Federal University . V.I. Vernadsky (formerly KSU), where she studied vocals.
In Alupka, the girl worked as a teacher in a music school, got married, and after work she pleased her husband with small experiments in the kitchen. And later came the long-awaited pregnancy.
It would seem that everything is taking its course, but then a tragedy happens in the girl’s life: she has a newborn child dying. It was a real blow, because she and her husband so dreamed about children. The child of Elizabeth Glinsky suffocated during childbirth as a result of entwining the umbilical cord. Despite the fact that the husband supported the heartbroken girl, over time they began to move away from each other. She fell into a severe depression, left work, divorced her husband and shaved her head baldly.
To get out of the difficult life period Elizabeth helped cooking. She was interested in watching the program "Eat at Home" with Julia Vysotskaya. The girl claims that her attention was attracted not by the recipes according to which the famous presenter was preparing, but by how she did it. Elizabeth gradually became infected with optimism, ease and love of life of Julia. She recorded the program on tapes and turned them on as background. And later she started cooking on her own.
To forget about the terrible tragedy, Elizabeth moved to Kiev, where she got a job as an administrator in one of the restaurants in the capital. Then she began to spy on the chefs and tried to reproduce the culinary masterpieces of the house.
In Kiev, Elizaveta Glinskaya also began to study the art of makeup in the school-studio of makeup and makeup of Alla Churi, where she received the specialty of a make-up artist.
Prior to the culinary project, the girl held the position of art director at Shiseido. Thanks to the "Master Chef" a new fascinating story appeared in the biography of Elizabeth Glinsky.
The start of a new life
Watching the first season of the Ukrainian culinary show, Elizabeth began to notice that while cooking the project participants, she involuntarily thinks about how she would make this or that dish, what kind of zest she added or what she would completely change. The decision to take part in the casting came intuitively. She did not manage to send the application form electronically for a long time. Then she decided to go the other way and began to dominate the STB channel with calls to personally bring her data. Having been refused several times, Elizabeth did not stop. As a result, the employees of the TV channel surrendered under the pressure of the girl and were allowed to come to fill out the questionnaire. And then began a new round of biography of Elizabeth Glinsky.
In 2012, Glinskaya, having struck Hector Jimenez Bravo with the rich taste of chocolate fondant and Zhanna Badoeva with her fighting character, became one of the participants in the Master Chef-2 project. The girl really wanted to believe in herself again, become happy and start her life from scratch. And the first step towards the realization of the dream was that it entered the top twenty best amateur cooks in Ukraine.
For four months, Elizabeth ventured and experimented. Despite inner despair and excitement, she worked hard, gradually approaching her goal. Conflict-free by nature, Elizabeth was not easy at the show, where scandals, quarrels and showdowns raged. It turned out that cooking is not enough to survive on the set. You need to somehow get along with other participants and avoid the negative side of the rivals. It was all very distracting from the culinary art. In addition, it was necessary to constantly monitor the time allotted for cooking, and this was difficult, because at home there are no such restrictions.
And, recalling the project in her interviews, the girl says that the most difficult thing for her was to kill the frog, and the most disgusting one was to eat fried zoophobus.
But as a result, Elizabeth fulfilled the promise made to herself and the judges at the casting and proved that she was a strong-willed and purposeful person who could really do anything. She put all her talent, skill and passion into her dishes. And they liked the main judges of the project.
And in December 2012, the judges of the project declared Elizabeth Glinska the winner of "Master Chef-2." She was remembered by the audience as a fragile girl with huge sad eyes, who always held herself with dignity and gained confidence from air to air.
She managed to achieve her goal - to drastically change her life for the better. And now you can see in the photo of Elizabeth Glinsky how the smile does not leave her face.
About studying at Le Cordon Bleu
Having won the culinary show, Elizaveta Glinskaya received a cash prize of 500,000 hryvnias (about 1 million rubles) and the opportunity to study at one of the best culinary academies in the world in Paris.
Elizabeth Glinsky with pleasure recalls the time spent in a French school. The girl claims that she had never run to classes with such joy, even taking into account the strict rules at school: no makeup, no long nails, carefully removed hair and perfectly ironed clothes. For the slightest non-compliance with the requirements of the student could be removed from class.
At Le Cordon Bleu, Elizabeth made many discoveries for herself. For example, she realized that she could do a great job with the yeast test, which she previously preferred not to work with. Or do, as it seemed to her, the impossible: combine the baked meringue, which must be burned with a gas burner, with a cold sorbet.
At the French Academy, the girl graduated from the basic culinary course and the full course of confectionery art. There she entered the top five students.
In addition to the fact that Elizabeth learned to cook at the academy, she also began to learn French.
France was also remembered by her for having an affair with one of the school students in Le Cordon Bleu near Elizabeth. It was a short, but beautiful story, about which the girl remembers with a smile. The young man was called Alexi, and at that time he was 21 years old. The French personal life of Elizabeth Glinsky began in Paris, where she ended.
About culinary preferences
Elizaveta Glinskaya claims that she does not have a favorite dish and dessert, however, there are combinations of tastes that she likes. She considers herself a sweet tooth and this explains her success precisely in the confectionery art. Indeed, desserts prepared according to the author’s recipes of Elizabeth Glinsky turn out to be unusually tasty, light and delicate. She likes to try and discover new tastes.
Elizabeth loves the skin of a chicken, although she knows that it is harmful to the body. And sometimes he allows himself to eat a double cheeseburger.
According to Elizabeth, she received the most unforgettable emotions from food while visiting abroad, where she tried beautiful rolls of thinly sliced snake meat. The girl initially did not know what the main ingredient of this dish. And when I asked, I experienced conflicting emotions. On the one hand, the realization that she ate a snake was unpleasant, on the other hand, it was very tasty.
The queen of desserts considers borshch seasoned with lard and garlic with greens as her main dish, and calls the souffle the most difficult.
About rest
Elizabeth loves to travel: she traveled throughout Europe, visited Israel, Egypt, Turkey, India and many other countries. Trips to the sea or ocean have a relaxing effect on the girl, although this does not happen so often.
In every journey, Elizabeth discovers new tastes. For example, from Israel, a girl brought back memories of a delicious avocado and hummus, and in Japan she discovered matcha tea, which she now actively uses in her desserts.
In her free time, she likes to just lie on a soft sofa.
About personal life
In 2016, talk began about the pregnancy of the winner of the second season of "Master Chef." However, this turned out to be only rumors that were caused by the fact that Elizabeth gained 8 kg. The girl returned to sports and control in the diet. Her goal was to regain the previous 50 kg of weight.
Elizaveta Glinskaya prefers to talk about her personal life, confining herself to phrases that there are ups and downs.
Today the girl is free and still dreams of having a baby.
About Writing Experience
It was inspired by the writing of her own book to Elizabeth that the number of publications with a detailed description of the technology for making desserts is very limited. And the nuances in the confectionery art play a significant role. Sometimes the result depends on in which direction you need to mix the mass for a future dessert.
She wanted to release a book where she would collect and sort through the whole process technology, accompanied by detailed step-by-step photographs. And the result will be exactly the dish that meets all the initial expectations.
In 2016, the girl released her first book on the art of confectionery and called it "From Simple to Complex with Elizabeth Glinsky." It contains recipes for French desserts, their cooking techniques and all the experience and knowledge that was gained during training at Le Cordon Bleu.
The book of Elizabeth Glinsky collected more than 130 desserts and 250 recipes.
Work on the implementation of this project into life lasted 6 months. It was a time of inspiration and despair. However, the girl did not give up.
Thanks to the photographer Dmitry Khoroshayev, bright and colorful illustrations were created. The photographs taken by him emphasize the beauty of each dessert and have their own style.
Work on the cover was also not easy. Elizabeth experimented for a long time with her photographer Yana Klochkova.
Sister Tatyana first watched the process from the side, and later actively joined the work on the book. She analyzed the assortment of bookstores, studied demand, was engaged in the search for a publisher, and undertook the preparation of a business plan. Tatyana supported her sister and they did not give in to persuasion to leave this venture. The sisters listened only to themselves and their inner voice.
As a result of joint efforts, the book "From simple to complex with Elizabeth Glinsky" was released in 3000 copies. She has become popular and in demand. And several of its copies even flew to Japan, Europe, America and Australia, which confirms the relevance of the publication not only in Ukraine but also abroad.
In 2018, a second book was born, entitled “It's Easier than Easy with Elizabeth Glinsky.” On 250 pages, the winner of "Master Chef-2" collected all her family recipes, without fundamentally changing their appearance, but applying the knowledge and experience gained, improved the technology of their preparation, thereby creating an incredible taste.
The book is illustrated with vivid photographs of pastry masterpieces and contains a detailed step-by-step description of the stages of their preparation. There are no obscure and hard-to-reach ingredients in the recipes. All products can be found in any kitchen. In her publication, Elizabeth calls for abandoning the scales, but at the same time emphasizes that observing the verified grammar of ingredients is the key to success in making beautiful and delicious desserts.
The book contains more than 120 recipes and 50 desserts, detailed descriptions of cooking technology with step-by-step illustrations, tables of measures and weights. It is great for beginners.
Author's masterpiece
Elizabeth Glinsky has many of her own recipes for delicious desserts. One of them is called "Paradise clouds."
It is incredibly light and delicate in taste and very beautiful dessert.
A layer of the thinnest lemon biscuit and marshmallow-air apple puree are connected by a jelly layer of hibiscus. And the products for its preparation can be found in every kitchen.
Cooking begins with lemon sponge cake. First of all, you need to beat 2 eggs with 60 g of sugar until a thick and homogeneous mass is obtained. In the process of how it will increase, add 60 g of butter and half a lemon zest to the mixture. After which the mass is carefully mixed with 60 g sifted flour. The resulting batter must be poured onto parchment and baked in the oven for 7-8 minutes. It is necessary to adhere to a temperature of 190 degrees.
While the dough is baking, you need to cook applesauce. To do this, 15 g of gelatin is poured with water and left for some time so that it swells. At this time, apples in the amount of 5 pcs., Must be baked in the oven, and then wipe through a sieve in mashed potatoes. Then add 30 g of sugar to it and wait for the time until the mass becomes lighter in color. After that, 2 pcs. Are added to it. protein, and the resulting mixture must be whipped to a magnificent state. Next, in the mass you need to enter the heated gelatin and a few spoons of hibiscus to obtain color. At the end of this stage, the resulting applesauce must be poured onto a biscuit and put the future dish in the refrigerator for 30 minutes.
The final step in creating a dessert is making jelly from hibiscus. To do this, add 15 tablespoons of water to 15 g of gelatin. While it swells, you need to cook a small pot. Pour water into it, add 15 g of hibiscus with sugar and bring to a boil on the stove. Next, remove the container from the fire and add gelatin to it, already swollen. At the end, the jelly mixture must be poured on top of applesauce and sent to the refrigerator until the jelly is completely frozen.
Ready dessert should be cut into portioned parts with a knife periodically wetted in hot water.
Elizabeth Glinsky today
Sometimes the terrible events that happened in life entail overwhelming changes for the better. This happened to the winner of the second season, “Master Chef." Having a terrible tragedy in her biography, Elizabeth Glinsky was able to overcome a protracted depression, realize herself in her favorite business and become happy again.
Elizabeth is an introvert by type of personality and she does not consider working in restaurants comfortable for herself. But despite this, her successes are noticeable and significant. Today she is one of the best confectioners in Ukraine.
Elizaveta released her first book, is an expert on the Ukrainian channel STB in the program "Everything will be fine."
She owns the GL pastry school, where she realized herself as a teacher.
Thanks to her and Alexander Brazhevsky, Ukraine took 8th place in the Mondial des arts sucres championship, dedicated to confectionery art.
Elizabeth travels a lot and still dreams of opening her own pastry shop.
Interesting Facts
By education, Elizaveta Glinskaya is a make-up artist, and in almost all editions, the makeup on her face is done with her own hands.
The winner of the "Master Chef" has three tattoos on her body:
- the inscription on the back in Latin "What feeds me, it kills me";
- snakes symbolizing wisdom;
- phrase on the foot "Fate helps the brave."
The winner of "Master Chef 2" for a long time refused to work with yeast dough. This was due to the fact that when Elizabeth baked her first Easter cake, she killed all the yeast by putting the dough on the warm floor.
At the beginning of her participation in the Master Chef project, Elizabeth had a sympathy for Mikhail Sosnovsky, a colleague on the set. But certain situations during the filming influenced the fact that interest in him disappeared. Later, while watching television issues on the television show, Elizabeth becomes convinced of the correctness of what her heart told her.