Ieva Ozola of Bauska Turns Label Reading Into Butter Caramel
Ieva Ozola from Bauska, Latvia, read the packaging on sweets she was buying for her children and disliked what she found. She began experimenting in her kitchen, and "Sviesta karamele" (Butter Caramel) was the result.
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Ieva Ozola, a resident of Bauska in Latvia, came to caramel-making while shopping for treats for her children. The story, as presented by the Latvian news site TVNET, begins with the observation that lawyers read everything on product packaging, fine print included. Ieva did exactly that.
She did not like what she read, and that prompted her to start experimenting in her own kitchen. She concluded that a tasty treat needs only two ingredients: sugar and butter. From that idea came a product called "Sviesta karamele", which means "Butter Caramel" in Latvian.
The article's headline describes Ieva as a stubborn tamer of caramel who once wanted to become a bank director. The excerpt available does not give further details about her path from that ambition to making caramel.
