At first it bothered me a lot, that many, many <\/em>people <\/em>came in and out of the kitchen as if it was their home. And not only the monitors; teachers, cleaners, administrators, technicians and students who asked me for breakfast because they had forgotten their snacks at home. That really made me feel like I was in a home kitchen, only my mom, my aunt and my granny were absent!!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Chef told me that this was something normal, that the kitchen was the epicenter of the school and he was proud of it. Frankly, in all the places I had worked before, if someone from outside the kitchen dared put a fucking foot inside, he was a dead man. I have seen kitchens with a line painted on the floor that warned of immediate danger in case of crossing it. I swear that at the restaurant where I worked for about eight years, I had never once seen the owner inside the kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I warned the Catholic patron of the school, that when I would become the Head Chef, this would be definitely over. And, thank God, I did it!
The day arrived and the Head Chef left. They brought me a young lad as a second chef, a boy, who, just like me, came from the hell that is Barcelona\u2019s restaurants. So, all three, he, the kitchen porter and myself, we started a new and very intense stage of leading that huge kitchen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We started the new era, the era of TERROR…<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n *Oliver Benet is a Catalan cook and writer of the book “Per qu\u00e8 odiava en Ferran Adri\u00e0?”<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Oliver Benet Despite going from cooking for 60 people at the restaurant where I worked, to a staggering 600 meals at the school, I…<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/democraticgourmet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/pK2GsRQh.jpg\")
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