In the last few hours, the news of the death of Guillermo Calabrese, who died in the early hours of the morning after suffering heart failure, has aroused surprise. The 61 year old chef was in charge of Argentinian cooks (TV Pública, Monday to Friday at 1.30pm) for 10 years and it was your former colleagues who this Friday they fired him with an emotional toll.
The cooking cycle began with a video that recalled some of his moments in front of the public TV screen.
Then a camera panned around the studio, which was quiet and dark. On a table, coffee and an apron.
The first to speak was Ximena Saenz. “It is very difficult to start doing this program. We are all here to pay a great tribute to Guillermo Calabrese ”, he began.
And he continued: “A teacher has left us, a companion has left us. The whole channel is absolutely moved. We are all speechless.”
Although Juan Braceli wanted to intervene, anguish did not allow him to speak. “Seeing images is very strong. We all remember him as such a funny person, with such a sense of humor, who then walks away,” continued Sáenz.
“Always with a smile for everyone… he had a strong character but humor and his passion for cooking and work always prevailed. She left a very strong mark on all of us. This program was her home. Cooks is Guillermo Calabrese. He’s like our father…he’s got some,” he recalled.
“We called her Calita and I treated her like you,” Braceli explained through tears.
Later, she developed: “He was my teacher. It’s a very strong impact for everyone and in my turn I happen to remember it with deep gratitude and joy for that humor that was always present in front of and behind the camera”.
“It felt kind of protected at one point. There are many hours, it’s a lot to share, we’ve been through a billion, a lot… And one says, ‘I can’t believe everything we’ve been through.'” he said.
“Cala is here with us somehow,” he was honest. And he clarified: “We will make the program as it is presented and above all by sharing it with all of you, who we embrace from here because we know that in this moment you feel what is happening to us, you feel that a part of us is left, of all the followers of the program, which are so many years, we embrace them all”.
“And we’ll try to share that with joy, because he’s consistently put joy into everything he’s done and into the show,” he concluded.
“When we met him, I was scared of him. I was terrified of him until I met him a week later and then I said ‘this man is the best,'” Ximena recalled humorously.
“He was super generous to everyone and that makes us all forever grateful to him,” she later explained.
“This program is Guillermo Calabrese. All that we are we owe to him. So we wanted to pay him a big tribute. We have prepared a great tribute, obviously with the recipes”, closed the chef, before explaining that during the broadcast they would cook Calabrese’s recipes.
Source: Clarin
