This Friday the sad news of the sudden death of the chef was known William Calabresedied in the early hours of the morning after suffering heart failure.
Despite being rushed by SAME to Fernández hospital, the 61-year-old celebrity chef could not be revived and died of cardiac arrest. After the fateful outcome, from the official program account Argentinian cookswhich airs on Public Television and in which he was until 2020, Calabrese was fired in grief
“We say goodbye to a great friend who has been part of our family for a long time, Guillermo Calabrese. Cala, we will remember you with so much love and joy for all the moments we lived, for the recipes we cooked together and the time we shared. Always in our hearts,” they wrote from the culinary cycle in which the chef has been working since 2009.
From the public TV Twitter account they also referred to the death of one of Gato Dumas’ favorite students.
“Guillermo Calabrese died this morning in the Fernández hospital after failing to overcome a heart attack. He had walked away in 2020 from the public television cooking cycle Argentinian cookswhere he has been for years, to have his show on another channel,” they wrote.
And they added in another tweet next to the photo of a young Calabrian with his teacher: “Emblem of Argentine gastronomy, roommate and great cook: we greet him with great sadness. Goodbye, Cala!”
The emotional farewell of his colleagues of “What Tomorrow”
After almost a year away from the media, which coincided with the toughest moment of the coronavirus pandemic, the chef is back with a culinary cycle at El Nueve. In fact, he was driving at the time what a morningwhere he had arrived in early 2022 to replace Ariel Rodríguez Palacios.
He himself had defined his new program as a “clear gastronomic message, neither pompous nor ceremonious”, in a face to face with clarion before the first.
He was accompanied in this last stage of the cycle by Daniel Gómez Rinaldi, Agustina Díaz and Maia Chacra, among others.
“With deep sorrow we say goodbye to our mate and captain of this ship who taught us every day to cook with love and passion. Goodbye Cala, we will miss you,” they wrote from the El Nueve program on their official Instagram account.
Then, his former partner, Agustina Díaz, confirmed that they will make a program in tribute to Calabrese in an interview with FM Folklórica this morning: “Yesterday we left the air happy. His partner told us that he didn’t feel well at night. He sees that something made him worry and he went to the Fernández hospital,” he said.
“Very sad, today when I woke up I couldn’t believe it”the reporter said. And he warned: “Cala was overweight, she was a person who liked the flavors of life. He didn’t drink alcohol, he took care of himself within his profession, which was food. He was 60 years old, he was young. It is these things that do not warn, cause a person to end up dying unexpectedly. He was such a beautiful person.”
“We’re going to do an emergency tribute program. The public is going to want us to come together, there were a lot of people who went through that,” he said. And he concluded painfully: “He was such a beautiful, lovely, generous, thoughtful and supportive person. He appreciated everyone’s work.”
Source: Clarin
