by 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…
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Barcelona diaries 11 – Allergic world
Published 4 November 2022 by Vangelis
by Oliver Benet I spent a lot of my school life staying at school for lunch. The food was nice most of the time, but…
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Published 28 September 2022 by Vangelis
by 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…
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Published 15 February 2022 by Vangelis
by Oliver Benet The beginning of the century was not a time I am very proud of. Just like the Mayas who knew they were…
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Published 3 January 2022 by Vangelis
by Oliver Benet … Starting the first week as the school chef was frankly harsh. The kitchen, as I said in previous chapters, was a…
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Published 16 November 2021 by Vangelis
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…
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Published 7 October 2021 by Vangelis
by Oliver Benet That Friday, March 13th 2020, was when my alarm went off. I could sense a strange feeling in the air as if…
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Published 7 June 2021 by katerina
by Oliver Benet In the south of Catalonia, near the historic city of Tarragona, we find the small city of Valls, a city that when…
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Published 8 April 2021 by Vangelis
by Oliver Benet In many countries around the world, we can see how important breakfast is. One of the most typical cases, if we are…
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Published 20 February 2021 by Vangelis
by 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…
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