when talking about cooking, there are few voices that resonate more than that of Charles Arguiñano. The veteran Basque chef, cultural figure Due to his pioneer work in the culinary television programs and his long career in the stoves of different chains, it is an eminence of Spanish gastronomy and a representative face of that current that came to be called New Basque kitchen. For decades he has used a close tone that has cultivated solid confidence with his viewers, who confesses between elaboration and elaboration some details of his private life and, in addition, of what he likes most: The food.
In a recent broadcast, a matter of special relevance for the Spaniards has been discussed due to the frequency with which it is incurred in a habit that can be dangerous if it is condemned to everyday life: the consumption of bread at night. “You have to eat in the morning and at noon because then you are burning it”he said in the first instance.
The chef advocates more light dinners that favor good rest and the correct functioning of metabolism. There comes the bread. According to the World Health Organization (WHO)the daily amount of recommended bread consumption is 250 grams. It is not about crossing it out of the shopping list, but knowing how much it is taken and when. “The bread of the night becomes a little in sugar, and from an age we are loading to the backpack”Arguiñano Judgment.
-His ‘crusade’ with the sugar
It is the subject of sugar a real concern for the Basque cook, who already confirmed in an interview with El Huffington Post In 2019 that had decided to mark distances with this product. “I took off the sugar 8 or 10 years ago. If I take 3 or 4 cut every day for 365 days a year, How much sugar have I avoided?”, I dropped on that occasion.
Despite the roundness of this statement, the chef made a call to wisdom before the frequent and loud comments of many kitchen fans who deny basic foods for reasons that he considers crazy: “Let them say it is poison to drink milk, I don’t understand it … We have all raised drinking milk. Why aren’t you going to take a flan or a rice with milk? ”
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