Juan Bracelliformer partner of William Calabrese In Argentinian cooksI speak inside Barbarossa (Telefe, 9.30) and remembered him with a moving anecdote a few hours after his death.
“This was shocking news. I found out about taking my daughter to school. I can’t take it anymore, it’s like I stayed there. And here we are…”, were the chef’s first words referring to the disappearance of the television reference in the gastronomic world.
And he continued: “I don’t know Cala only from Chefswhere we have been partners for so long, but 24 or 25 years ago. I come from the first litter of the Dumas Cat school. I worked for school and He was also my first Cala teacher.”
Then, in defining it, Braceli assured that he is one of those people who “with one sentence” would open “doors to take you headlong into the kitchen.”
“Somehow that’s what he did every day as a communicator. It’s a huge loss for me.”, he stressed. Then, she began to tell a moving anecdote with which she described the passion with which she lived her profession and how with one speech he changed his life forever.
“You recognize the masters much more than by the cooking techniques you have learned, but by the phrases that open doors for you”he has declared.
And he added: “I came from another stick, the stick of acting. I studied there in Gato Dumas and it was difficult for me to risk, he was afraid of a frying pan. Have you seen when one jumps and is afraid of things falling? Well that”.
Later, Braceli remembered it one day Calabrese noticed it and approached him. “What’s wrong with him? I see him worried,” he told him. And when he explained that she didn’t quite know how to saute onions, she gave him the most important advice of her career.
“He told me this: ‘Listen to me, cooking is cooked from the bowels, cooking is like making love. What do you do when you make love? Do you stop to think? No, you jump in, you live it, you have fun. This is cooking. Grab the pan, put the onion in it, flick your wrist, drop half the onion and enjoy cooking in a wonderful world.'”
Moved remembering that key moment of his profession, Braceli assured that in this way Calabrese “opened up his gastronomic life”. “Of course I grabbed the pan, threw the onion and then it started falling less and less and here we are, 25 years have passed,” she concluded, on the verge of tears.
Like Juan Braceli he prefers to remember Calabrese and the details about his health
“I can’t stop remembering it with joy, with laughter. Beyond the fact that I deeply thank you as a student, the entire period of Argentinian cooks we had great fun. We had fun. And it is the image that I have of him permanently” said Juan Braceli.
And he added in allusion to how amazing the cardiac arrest that ended his life was: “He took great care of himself. He was a little overweight and that diabetes they were talking about, but not anything specific.”
Source: Clarin
