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JURI GOTTSCHALL

Juri Gottschall, born in Hamburg in 1979, works as an author and photographer in Munich and Italy. He has won several renowned photography competitions and, together with Mercedes Lauenstein, he co-founded Splendido magazine, which covers Italy, cooking and food culture. Find out more about Juri Gottschall at jurigottschall.com <br /><br />Juri Gottschall and Mercedes Lauenstein live in Munich and northern Italy and founded Splendido magazine in<br />2015. Since then, they have researched and written together about Italy, good products, cooking, and consumer culture. In 2022, their first cookbook “Splendido. Italian cooking with the best ingredients and a lot of feeling” was published by DuMont; in 2023, “Splendido. Italian product knowledge and recipes” followed. Both books<br />won the German Cookbook Prize. In 2025, they dedicated themselves to seasonal cuisine with “Splendido. Primavera/Estate” and “Splendido. Autunno/Inverno.”