At the age of 61, chef Guillermo Calabrese, the face and the company that decreed the success of Cocineros Argentinos, the culinary cycle that had its space on public TV, died.
As confirmed by his family, Calabrese suffered a cardiac arrest at dawn this Friday and was transferred to Fernández hospital by SAME, where he passed away.
He was currently leading the ‘Qué mañana’ cycle, on the screen of Channel 9, where he had arrived in early 2022 to replace Ariel Rodríguez. He himself had defined the program as a “clear gastronomic message, neither pompous nor ceremonious”, in a face-to-face meeting with Clarín before the premiere.
He was accompanied in this last stage of the cycle by Daniel Gómez Rinaldi and Maia Chacra, among others.
Loving, loved, charismatic and passionate, he had been a medical student as a youth until one afternoon he approached legendary chef Carlos Alberto “Gato” Dumas about a job. He started by cleaning the kitchen of his restaurant and in just over a handful of years he became its boss.
In 1992, they jointly founded the “Gato” Dumas College of Gastronomy.
He was one of the characters who once again gave space to cooking on television, with what cost the public broadcaster as much as an award-winning cooking cycle that had been on the air for 15 years and of which Calabrese was the founding protagonist and alma mater until his resignation in 2020. At the time, he said he had not agreed with the production house on the numbers for the renewal.
Source: Clarin
