Carine Goren

{{Short description|Writer}} {{Infobox writer | name = Carine Goren | embed = | image = Carine Goren (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Goren in 2006 | native_name = קרין גורן | native_name_lang = Hebrew | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1974|05|24}} | birth_place = | death_date =  | death_place = | resting_place = | occupation = Pastry chef, cookbook author, television baking show host | language = Hebrew | nationality = Israeli | education = B.A. communication, University of Haifa | genre = Cooking | notableworks = ''Sweet Secrets'' (2006) | spouse = Ronen Goren | children = | awards = | years_active = 2000—present | website = {{URL|carine.co.il/English}} }} '''Carine Goren''' ({{langx|he|קרין גורן}}; born 1974)<ref name=chef>{{cite web|url=http://www.chefs.co.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=106&CategoryID=80&Page|title=קרין גורן|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Carine Goren|publisher=Al Hashulchan|accessdate=22 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123060321/http://www.chefs.co.il/Index.asp?ArticleID=106&CategoryID=80&Page|archive-date=2016-11-23|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=intimacy/> is an Israeli pastry chef, bestselling cookbook author, and television personality. She began her culinary career at age 26 as a recipe writer and editor at the Israeli food magazine ''Al Hashulchan'' (Around the Table), and in 2006 published her first dessert cookbook, ''Sweet Secrets''. As of 2016 she has published five cookbooks, including one for children, and is the host of her own television baking show, also called ''Sweet Secrets''. In 2016, she became a judge on the new Israeli reality television show ''Bake-Off Israel''. She was the most googled person in Israel in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://labs.time.com/story/see-the-most-googled-person-in-each-country-in-2015/|title=See the Most Googled Person in Each Country in 2015|publisher=Time|first=Megan|last=McCluskey|date=30 December 2015|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>

==Early life== Growing up in Haifa, she was one of two daughters of a driving instructor and a stay-at-home mother.<ref name=intimacy/> Karin graduated from the Hebrew Reali School in 1992. She earned a B.A. in communication at the University of Haifa, and later on earned B.Sc. in Software Engineering at the ORT Braude College of Engineering. She married her high school sweetheart, Ronen Goren, at age 24.<ref name=intimacy/> The couple moved to Karmiel, where they both studied computers, but Carine felt dissatisfied and sought out courses in different arts and crafts.<ref name=intimacy/>

At age 26, she was fired from her job as a webmaster and used her severance pay to take a 12-week pastry-making course.<ref name=forward/> Deciding that pastry-making was her vocation, she began buying cookbooks and experimenting with dessert-making while working as a computer programmer for the Israeli food magazine ''Al Hashulchan'' (''Around the Table'').<ref name=forward/> She brought her homemade desserts to share with her co-workers and was soon promoted to writer and editor, producing three dessert cookbooks for the publication.<ref name=intimacy/> In 2004 she began writing a weekly food supplement for ''Maariv''.<ref name=chef/> She spent a year and a half as a recipe developer for cakes, cookies, and fancy baked goods at the Lehem Erez restaurant and coffee shop in Herzliya under the tutelage of Erez Komarovsky.<ref name=chef/>

==Cookbooks== Goren self-published her first dessert cookbook, ''Sweet Secrets'', in 2006.<ref name=chef/><ref name=intimacy/> Like her later books, the cookbook includes a DVD showing her demonstrating several recipes.<ref name=intimacy/> The success of the Hebrew-language cookbook led to a demand from overseas readers, and an English-language version of ''Sweet Secrets'' was made available by mail order in 2010.<ref name=forward/> She later published ''Sweet Secrets 2'' (2011) and several other titles, including a children's baking book.

Targeted to the home baker, Goren's recipes call for "simple" ingredients found in any neighborhood supermarket.<ref name=forward/> A ''Haaretz'' reviewer opined that the success of her books, which spend months on bestseller lists, is due to her appeal to the "typical Israeli baker".<ref name=efrat/> Recipes call for readily-available ingredients such as "tahina, toffee candies, halva and marshmallows", and feature baking equipment found in every housewares store.<ref name=efrat>{{cite web |url=https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/books/a-book-of-standard-israeli-cakes-meant-to-appeal-to-the-masses-1.412626|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123053410/http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/books/a-book-of-standard-israeli-cakes-meant-to-appeal-to-the-masses-1.412626|url-status=dead|archive-date=November 23, 2016|title= A Book of Standard Israeli Cakes, Meant to Appeal to the Masses|first=Efrat|last=Michaeli|work=Haaretz|date=13 February 2012|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref> Goren's recipes are often recirculated in newspaper cooking columns and online blogs.<ref name=forward>{{cite web |url=http://forward.com/food/134889/carine-goren-israels-queen-baker/|title=Carine Goren: Israel's Queen Baker|first=Allison Kaplan|last=Sommer|date=24 January 2011|accessdate=22 November 2016|work=The Forward}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.bakespace.com/recipes/detail/Chocolate-Catastrophe-cake/46002/|title=Chocolate Catastrophe Cake|publisher=BakeSpace|year=2016|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-final-fling-as-the-holidays-end/|title=A final fling as the holidays end|first=Jessica|last=Steinberg|date=5 October 2012|accessdate=22 November 2016|work=The Times of Israel}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4699297,00.html|title= קרין גורן אופה: עוגיות טחינה עם קיצורי דרך|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Carine Goren Bakes: Tehina cookies with shortcuts|work=Ynet|first=Corine|last=Goren|date=15 October 2015}}</ref> She was the most googled person in Israel in 2015.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://labs.time.com/story/see-the-most-googled-person-in-each-country-in-2015/|title=See the Most Googled Person in Each Country in 2015|publisher=Time|first=Megan|last=McCluskey|date=30 December 2015|access-date=22 November 2016}}</ref>

==Television personality== In 2007 Goren launched her own television baking show, ''Sweet Secrets'', on Channel 2.<ref name=onlife>{{cite web |url=http://www.onlife.co.il/%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%94/%D7%A2%D7%91%D7%95%D7%93%D7%94/%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%94/31719/%D7%A7%D7%A4%D7%94-%D7%A2%D7%9D-%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9F-%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9F|title=קפה עם קרין גורן|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Coffee with Carine Goren|first=Rina|last=Zismanowitz|date=25 September 2011|accessdate=22 November 2016|work=Onlife magazine}}</ref> She previously hosted 15 episodes of ''Guide to Baking with Carine Goren'' on Channel 10.<ref name=chef/><ref name=intimacy/>

In April 2016 she appeared as a judge in the first season of the reality television series ''Bake-Off Israel'', a local version of ''The Great British Bake Off''.<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/A-half-baked-offering-451035|title=A Half-Baked Offering|first=Amy|last=Spiro|date=12 April 2016|accessdate=22 November 2016|work=The Jerusalem Post}}</ref>

==Personal life== She met her husband, Ronen Goren, in high school; they married in 1998.<ref name=intimacy/> Like her, Ronen initially pursued a career in computers but became bored with it and became a professional chef instead.<ref name=intimacy/> He left his career to manage her brand, including her cookbooks, television show, website, and fan forum.<ref name=forward/> They reside in Herzliya.<ref name=intimacy>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3310404,00.html|title= על זוגיות מתוקה וספר בישול חדש|language=Hebrew|trans-title=On Sweet Intimacy and a New Cookbook|first=Ruti|last=Kinnon|date=9 October 2006|accessdate=22 November 2016|work=Ynet}}</ref>

==Bibliography== * {{cite book|title=חצי חצי|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Half and Half|year=2016}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yJd_CwAAQBAJ|title=Traditional Jewish Baking: Retro recipes your grandma could make…if she had a mixer|year=2016|publisher=Macmillan|isbn= 978-1624142758}} * {{cite book|title=אם לסבתא היה מיקסר|language=Hebrew|trans-title=If Grandma Had a Mixer|year=2013|publisher=Carine Goren}} * {{cite book|title= סודות מתוקים 2|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Sweet Secrets 2|year=2011|publisher=Kokemdia}} * {{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dyNuAAACAAJ&q=%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%9F+%D7%92%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9F|title=אפייה זה משחק ילדים|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Baking is Child's Play|publisher=Carine Goren|year=2008}} * {{cite book|title= סודות מתוקים|language=Hebrew|trans-title=Sweet Secrets|publisher=Carine Goren|year=2006}}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|8059486}} * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVHyGXexomA סודות מתוקים – קרין גורן אופה עוגת תפוזים אוורירית] (Sweet Secrets: Carine Goren bakes airy orange cake) 2011 video * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJDUfP5aOsQ סודות מתוקים – סופלה שוקולד חם] (Sweet Secrets: Warm Chocolate Souffle) 2012 video * [http://www.timesofisrael.com/when-it-rains-it-pours/ Recipe for Krembo Muffins] * [http://forward.com/food/134889/carine-goren-israels-queen-baker/ Recipe for Chocolate Catastrophe Cake]

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