- Barcelona diaries 12 – Injuriesby Oliver Benet A cook getting cut or burned doesn’t make the news. In our line of work, it’s an occupational hazard. Just as every…
- Barcelona diaries 11 – Allergic worldby Oliver Benet I spent a lot of my school life staying at school for lunch. The food was nice most of the time, but…
- Barcelona diaries 10 – Volunteerby Oliver Benet When you’re young and growing up, you’re half mad, frightened of nothing, often in a bad mood, and you go from one…
- Barcelona diaries – Food-ball 3by Oliver Benet Unwilling to deceive anyone, I must say the town made no sense, scattered apartment blocks, dirt everywhere and natives looking at us…
- Barcelona diaries – Food-ball 2by Oliver Benet Something that has not changed during the years, is the sense of nervousness I feel the day before going to watch my…
- Barcelona diaries 7 – Food-ballby Oliver Benet The beginning of the century was not a time I am very proud of. Just like the Mayas who knew they were…
- Barcelona diaries 6 – back to schoolby Oliver Benet … Starting the first week as the school chef was frankly harsh. The kitchen, as I said in previous chapters, was a…
- Barcelona diaries 5 – back to schoolby Oliver Benet Despite going from cooking for 60 people at the restaurant where I worked, to a staggering 600 meals at the school, I…
- Barcelona diaries 4 – back to schoolby Oliver Benet That Friday, March 13th 2020, was when my alarm went off. I could sense a strange feeling in the air as if…
- Barcelona diaries 3 – the calçotsby Oliver Benet In the south of Catalonia, near the historic city of Tarragona, we find the small city of Valls, a city that when…
- Barcelona diaries 2by Oliver Benet In many countries around the world, we can see how important breakfast is. One of the most typical cases, if we are…
- Barcelona diaries 1by Oliver Benet You don’t have to be genious to realize that this year 2020 has been a damned year. So clearly, I start this…