After earning a degree in economics, and working in high risers for many years, Didem left the corporate world behind to pursue her dreams. She completed the Chef and Owner program at The Culinary Arts Academy, one of Turkey’s leading gastronomical institutions, and received a City and Guilds of London Institute diploma. She went on to study at Doors Academy and became a patisserie chef. Didem opened her first café, also called Krem Karamel, in Istanbul in 2014, where she offered celebration cakes and catering services, planned and hosted birthdays and baby showers. Didem also provided cooking workshops for children and adults and organized corporate team-building events. Didem has worked as a chef/foodstylist in TV shows, commercials and print ads, hosted entertaining culinary shows on the Turkish TV channel BeinGurme, and written articles on children’s relationship with food for various Turkish lifestyle magazines. Didem moved to Edinburgh in 2019, and now she owns Krem Karamel Café & Bookshop