![]() ![]() I showed them how I work, they showed me how they work. They came to my office, they saw my laboratory, but nothing really happened for different reasons. I have my own telescope, and I love to watch the Space Station when it passes every night through the sky.Īnd so I began talking to some folks at NASA many years ago. I love science fiction, and I always had dreams of what it would be like cooking for a faraway planet. I understand that you are collaborating with Axiom Space, and that came about because of your friendship with the commander of the Ax-1 crew, Michael López-Alegría. And when there’s nobody around, what do you do? Well, you can do two things. Not because I was prepared to be the chef, but because the other chef left. For some reason, I found myself one summer in charge of the kitchen. ![]() I was 15 or 16 when I began working in the summer in a seafood restaurant up north of Barcelona, on the Mediterranean seacoast. Then, as I grew up, I began learning about chefs doing very cool things. So it was your parents who helped spark that interest? I only have fun memories of those moments. We got to love cooking because cooking was a good moment of being together. I have three brothers, and we would always help in the kitchen: setting the table, bringing the dishes to the dishwasher, helping my mom. ![]() Or I would go with my mom to buy fruit, or I would go with my father to buy fish. I would get my bike, and I would go to the bakery, and I’d pick up the bread, warm out of the oven. I remember I would go for bread every day. Going to a restaurant was expensive, and my mom and my dad were working-class, a middle-class family. I don't have a lot of memories of going to restaurants when I was growing up. My mother and my father were very important. I think I enjoy being a cook, and it happens that it has become my profession. My love for cooking was something that happened very early in my life, slowly but surely. What sparked your interest in cooking? And how did you become a professional chef? And now, you’re devising culinary surprises for space travel. I know that you are an internationally recognized chef, a humanitarian, a New York Times best-selling author, and a TV personality. Hello, Chef Andrés! I'm really happy to be here with you. ![]()
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