There are few chefs that have the television trajectory that supports the media presence of Alberto Chicote. The Madrid chef, pioneer of the kitchen fusion in Spain and ideologist and orchestra director of Omenit has been in the small screen for more than a decade. And largely is due to Nightmare in the kitchenformat that catapulted his fame.
It was in 2012 when the first season of the aforementioned program was launched, the first stone of a television trajectory – paying its previous appearances in Cocal Cocal – to which other spaces such as spaces would later be added Food myths, Top chef o Restaurant battleamong others. However, it was not strictly 13 years ago when his life began to change, but in 2010 and after a visit to the cardiologist.
“A kitchen was not the best place to be”
The laureate and recognized chef reviewed its origins in front of the cameras on a visit that made last year to the podcast Pathfindersdating in your health problem three years ago the beginning of everything. “In 2010, for the first time in my life, I take a medical leave because they gave me arrhythmias And the cardiologist did not know why, ”he revealed in the talk.
One of the recommendations that the doctor gave him went directly through the stoves. “He told me that A kitchen was not the best place to be”, He said. After this, Chicote began to change some details in his day to day.“ And then I started doing One thing I had never done: watch TV”He said, clarifying that“ the chefs only see the TV at dawn, in the prime time We are curing. ”Thus he knew the format that later so many joys would give him:“ I saw a program that was Kitchen Nightmaresof Gordon Ramseyand I told my wife that I loved it. ”
When the phone rang in 2012, he did not hesitate. “Calls Antena 3 And they tell me that if I knew the program, they wanted to do it and had thought that It could be me”, He explained, solving an equation that offered little mystery:“ Well It seemed greatI have never said ‘no’ anything. ”
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