The sudden death of Guillermo Calabrese, famous chef emblem of the cycle Argentinian cooks, moved everyone in the early hours of this Friday. And as she said Coco CarrenoCala’s former collaborator: “It wasn’t fair that he was dead.”
In detail, the cook and the figure of The nine he collapsed when he fired his colleague and remembered him in tears with great affection and admiration. “We had known each other for a long time, we had a relationship of mutual respect as professionals and he was a guy who always trusted me,” he began by saying to the air of us in the morning (The Thirteenth, 10.30 am)
And followed: “He had that patronizing thing that chefs have and one day he called me out of the blue and said ‘I want you to teach at the school (of Gato Dumas, which he ran)’ and I told him I didn’t have much time”.
“He told me ‘it doesn’t matter, let’s do it virtual’ and one day (while I was videotaping at school) it appeared to me at 7 in the morningHe knocked on the studio door, he hugged me, we chatted, he asked me how I was and I said to myself ‘This is more therapy than coming to work with a cook friend'”, he remembered excitedly.
At the time, Coco mattered the huge gesture Cala had with him in September 2020, when his father passed away. “When my old man dies of Covid texted me super emotional (breaks down) that today, looking at my cell phone, I found it, I heard it once and I didn’t want to hear it anymore,” he confessed through tears.
“I don’t know if it was right for him to die. My old man also had diabetes and he was 82… it’s not like if you have diabetes you’re going to die, I’m not a doctor, but you can have a long life,” he said about it.
And about the professional in his role as a driver, Coco said: “He had a lot of the mysticism and the way of being of Gato Dumas and found a way to download the information they teach us and simplify it for the general public.”
“He was funny and he didn’t like things to change. No nonsense”he remarked in a clear reference to gourmet dishes that have become fashionable in recent times or that are served, for example, an empanada in a glass jar.
Furthermore, questioned by Paula Trapani, he revealed: “He really liked lamb but His favorite dish could very well be a good Milanese on a very large horse with two fried eggs, very juicy yolks, very crunchy french fries, because I had an obsession with that: that they weren’t greasy and that they were soft”
From the last conversations you had with Calabresehe recalled: “We wrote on Instagram, he wanted me to do something with his son and just this week he would have written to tell him ‘how nice we will share not only the screen but also the study…’. It’s like a bucket of cold water!”
“When I went to teach at the Gato Dumas school, which for me should be called Dumas-Calabrese for the well-deserved recognition, he told me he had lost weight because he needed it for a health problem“, he specified in another moment of the interview.
And I add: “I told him ‘I see you thinner’. He doesn’t think about other people’s bodies but since he brought up the subject I told him… the kitchen is a place where you have to organize yourself very well because you always work with food and you have to try what you do”.
Finally, Carreño noted that Cala has always been “attentive to everyone and has never lost his humility.” “He sent you messages to ask how you were, how were the locals and he was by no means a self-righteous personwhen someone didn’t like it, they didn’t take it into account,” he closed.
Also, in his stories of instagram, Coco shared a picture of whoever was her colleague and great friend. And next to him she wrote: “Cala dear: thank you for your generosity, your gift of people and your humility. Goodbye master!”
Source: Clarin
