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Nobody is perfect.

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Dad!

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Dad!

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Dad!

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Dad!

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Hey!

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What did you dream about?

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A cloud.

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I'm going to see
grandma and grandpa.

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Julio too.

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Julio is going to Cocentaina.

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We'll see. Alright.

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You wanna go to Cocentaina?

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To see grandma and grandpa?

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And your aunt and uncle?

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Aunt and uncle!

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Who else?

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Uncle Dave.

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And who else?

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We're leaving.
Give daddy a kiss.

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Wait. Let me clean that.

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We're leaving. Give daddy a kiss.

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Say "Have a nice trip, daddy".
-Have a nice trip, daddy.

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Say "love you".

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Love you.

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Baby, have a nice trip.

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Call me when you get there.

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Say hi to everyone.
-Behave.

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I read "The Tender Bar"

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by J.R. Moehringer

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And I wrote down a fragment
to remember it.

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"Do everything that frightens you.

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I'm not saying risk your life,
but everything else.

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Think about fear.

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Decide how you'll deal with it.

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Cause fear will be

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the great issue of your life,
I promise you.

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Fear will be

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the fuel for all your success,

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and the cause of all your failures.

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And the underlying dilemma

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in every story you tell yourself
about yourself.

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And the only chance you'll have
against fear?

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Follow it. Steer by it.

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Don't think of fear as the villain.

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Think of fear as your guide,

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your pathfinder."
And I think that's why we're here.

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A God in every lentil.

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The trip was fine.

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A bit tired because
we were filming

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on our way through La Mancha

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and we were like in a loop,
we couldn't get to Cocentaina.

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But it was fun.

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Any good wine this year?

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There are always cool things...
-Hey, what's up?

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How's life, man?

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Great.
-Long time, no see.

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Have you been here long?
-No, I just got here.

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How's Paula?

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She's fine. She has a huge belly.

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And working a lot.

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Julio is hilarious, man.
He's repeating everything.

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Did you get my email?

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Yes, I did. That's why I came, man.

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I think it'd be interesting to mix
earthy things and things like...

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I liked that idea.
-Yes.

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I talked to John and he liked it.

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It would be a good idea
for each dish to tell a story.

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And a representation of
the coordinates which...

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if you had to say
in 5 or 6 concepts

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what L'Escaleta is
you could fit them there.

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We'll discuss it tomorrow.
Have you seen your folks?

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Not yet. I will.

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I just got here.
They'll be waiting for me.

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He just dropped his suitcase
he will have a stiff drink

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and then he'll go upstairs.

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Well, bye.

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See you, man.

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See you tomorrow.

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When you're trying to tell a story
ordering chaos is the hardest part.

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Because things are always there,
but they don't simply appear.

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They need a hypothetical meaning.

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As a writer
I believe in this theory.

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I believe there's decency in order.

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But it's harder with a documentary,
as you must wait for it to happen.

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In a documentary,
that mystery is greater.

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In fiction, you have your tool box.

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In non-fiction,
your tools are all over the floor.

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But you search the same things.

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A kind of emotion,
of personal truth.

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Because your own truth
often guides you to global truth.

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The same happens with emotions.

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And those who stay here,
like me, think:

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"What if had studied abroad
and worked abroad?"

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When you travel
to a big city you think:

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"I wish I lived here".

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When you live in a village
you want to go to the city

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and the other way round.

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I have very good
childhood memories here.

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And my children won't have that.

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They'll have other things,
but not the same.

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That's right.

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I go to L'Escaleta very often
and it's going great, isn't it?

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Wouldn't you have wanted
to stay there and work with them?

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Well, sometimes I think about it,

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But, no... at the time... no.

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That wasn't really for me.

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But sometimes, when I am in Madrid,
I think:

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"What if I had stayed there
as a baker,

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with my brother and my family?"

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When I was a little boy,
my world was small and comfortable.

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And my life revolved around
three very close pillars.

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Home, school,
and my family's restaurant.

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While I walked from one another,
I used to wonder why we lived there

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in Cocentaina.

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I used to watch on tv
better and more hectic places.

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The only reason I could think of
was that we lived there by chance.

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Which seemed like destiny to me.

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When I was older I wondered
if I could change my destiny

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and leave.

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I finally did.

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And now when I'm down

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I wonder
if I made the right choice.

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Hello.
Hello.

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Antonio, a beer, please.

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Right away.

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Would like some peanuts?

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Yes, please. Peanuts or something.

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Your face looks familiar.

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From where?

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I don't know. Are you Paco's son?

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Paco from L'Escaleta?
Yes, the youngest.

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Well it's nice to see you, man.
Long time no see.

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Likewise. What's your name?

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Torcuato.
-Torcuato?

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Your face looks familiar, man.

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I used to work with your father.

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Really?

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Your father was a maitre d'.

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I used to see you as a child.

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Yes, your face was really familiar
but I didn't know.

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It's been a while
since I've been here.

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I come once in a blue moon,
so it's hard to remember the faces.

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That's normal.

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The same would happen to me
if I went back to Andalusia.

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Well, I'm glad I saw you.
-Likewise.

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What a coincidence.
Nice to see you.

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Start the main course for table 1.
-Yes, sir.

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...herbs, blanquet,
followed by two mushroom...

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flanken cut ribs and tuna belly.
-Yes, sir.

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I think we need to narrow down
all those ideas. And choose.

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Yes, it's like you said.
We need to capture this moment.

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Neither the last book,
nor a humongous book.

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What's up?

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What's that man?

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We're drinking gin and tonics, man.
-You're loaded, try this.

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Very nice.

00:19:05.500 --> 00:19:12.500
...ordering gin and tonics
and looking at you like assholes.

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And then, splitting the bill.

00:19:17.500 --> 00:19:19.500
Hey, you're still here?

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What?
They don't serve drinks in Madrid?

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Not as good as here, man.
That's for sure.

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When you arrive it's like
you've just come back from Vietnam.

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One month starving.

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Yes, when we went to Madrid,
we went out for dinner.

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We both got really drunk.

00:19:42.500 --> 00:19:44.500
He would say "This city is crap!"

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Luis, what are you
still doing here?

00:19:51.500 --> 00:19:56.300
We're having gin and tonics.
-Lock everything up.

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Don't worry, will do.
Just one drink and off to bed.

00:20:00.500 --> 00:20:02.000
Well, that's a must.

00:20:02.500 --> 00:20:04.900
Hey, what are you doing there?

00:20:05.400 --> 00:20:08.400
Well, good night.
-Good night.

00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:21.500
Alberto, man, does that bottle
open magically?

00:20:22.500 --> 00:20:25.000
Now we're in a very solemn moment.

00:20:27.500 --> 00:20:30.500
No, we're simply opening a bottle
and enjoying it.

00:20:31.100 --> 00:20:34.000
That American movie,
which talked about

00:20:35.500 --> 00:20:38.400
how some people
keep bottles all their lives

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waiting for a special day,

00:20:41.800 --> 00:20:44.500
and in the end
they have to drink the bottle.

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If you go to El Bulli to eat

00:20:47.900 --> 00:20:50.100
and what you eat there is special.

00:20:50.500 --> 00:20:51.500
Sure.

00:20:51.900 --> 00:20:53.800
It's not the other way round.

00:20:54.200 --> 00:20:58.100
A special bottle of champagne
you must open it with whomever.

00:20:58.500 --> 00:21:01.100
A client told me he had 2000 bottles.

00:21:01.500 --> 00:21:04.700
"Don't you have any friends
to share them with?"

00:21:17.500 --> 00:21:19.500
(Singing "Mano a mano")

00:22:49.500 --> 00:22:55.500
Remember a night like this one,
we ended up drunk in the pool

00:22:56.700 --> 00:23:04.500
and Alberto said "I dare you
to go to El Racó de Can Fabes"?

00:23:05.500 --> 00:23:09.700
I don't remember if
it was European lobster or lobster

00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:12.000
European lobster, man.

00:23:12.400 --> 00:23:15.500
European lobster,
and egg yolk cooked two ways.

00:23:16.500 --> 00:23:24.500
I remember the waiter said:
"Lobster, yolk and sour cream".

00:23:25.500 --> 00:23:29.000
And we looked at each other like:
"What's this, man?"

00:23:31.500 --> 00:23:36.500
And suddently we started eating
and we were in absolute silence,

00:23:40.300 --> 00:23:42.500
and at that moment we knew.

00:23:45.300 --> 00:23:48.100
That, for me, was like
a mystical moment.

00:23:49.200 --> 00:23:53.500
Yes, it was one of those moments
when you eat at a good restaurant,

00:23:54.500 --> 00:23:56.500
and you take it to your grave.

00:23:56.900 --> 00:24:01.500
I think a lot of things can happen
in someone's lifetime

00:24:02.500 --> 00:24:05.500
but a good meal is unforgettable.

00:24:06.500 --> 00:24:11.100
Great dishes are those
you remember after a long time.

00:24:11.500 --> 00:24:14.800
After years and years
they're engraved on your memory.

00:24:15.500 --> 00:24:18.500
I remember many plates from many restaurants

00:24:19.000 --> 00:24:22.500
which I still remember,
but that one especially

00:24:24.500 --> 00:24:29.500
But it was like:
"lobster and egg yolk? Really?"

00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.500
"What is this, man?"

00:24:33.500 --> 00:24:35.500
We were absolutely baffled.

00:24:35.900 --> 00:24:39.500
However, everything
was perfectly connected.

00:24:40.000 --> 00:24:42.500
Like witnessing a sunset.

00:24:43.000 --> 00:24:46.000
Those big meals,
those big dinners, man

00:24:46.700 --> 00:24:49.300
shared with your loved ones

00:24:50.700 --> 00:24:53.800
those are the ones
you take to your grave, man.

00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:57.800
I think you only have...
10 magical moments in a lifetime.

00:24:57.800 --> 00:24:59.800
If we are also what we lose,

00:24:59.800 --> 00:25:03.200
we are many things
because we lose almost everything.

00:25:03.800 --> 00:25:05.600
And, in the end, everything.

00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:09.200
It's not a pessimistic plea.
I think it's normal.

00:25:10.200 --> 00:25:14.000
When I'm with my brother
and my cousin Alberto, I'm happy

00:25:14.400 --> 00:25:16.800
and, at the same time,
a little sad.

00:25:17.200 --> 00:25:20.000
Those times we shared
and that complicity

00:25:20.400 --> 00:25:21.600
will never return.

00:25:23.500 --> 00:25:25.500
But I'm glad I had them.

00:25:26.000 --> 00:25:29.700
What we wanted to be as kids,
is part of what we are now.

00:25:30.100 --> 00:25:34.500
What we have forgotten
has lead to what we have learned.

00:25:35.400 --> 00:25:39.500
And what we have lost has made way
for what we have gained.

00:25:41.500 --> 00:25:43.500
And that, for me, is not bad.

00:25:55.500 --> 00:25:57.500
(Radio is playing)

00:26:38.500 --> 00:26:42.300
When I look at my son, Julio,
I know what will happen.

00:26:42.700 --> 00:26:45.000
One day he will stop idolizing me.

00:26:45.400 --> 00:26:48.500
However, I know he won't care

00:26:49.500 --> 00:26:53.800
as long as I do a good job,
I will end up simply being his dad.

00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:59.800
Part of his origins,
who helped him define himself

00:27:00.200 --> 00:27:02.800
in spite or thanks to my own self.

00:27:07.500 --> 00:27:12.500
Now, being 39 years old,
when I see my older father

00:27:13.500 --> 00:27:17.400
I realize which parts
I have created against him

00:27:17.800 --> 00:27:20.100
and which parts thanks to him.

00:27:20.500 --> 00:27:25.500
And almost every good thing
about me, I owe to him.

00:27:25.900 --> 00:27:30.500
I wish Julio would think the same
when he is 39 years old.

00:27:43.500 --> 00:27:45.500
Go on, eat.

00:28:45.500 --> 00:28:47.500
I'm preparing this oyster.

00:29:01.500 --> 00:29:03.500
Let's try it.

00:29:07.500 --> 00:29:09.500
"The warm oyster"

00:29:09.900 --> 00:29:14.500
Yes, sir.

00:31:55.500 --> 00:31:59.500
In the late 20th century,
Jean-Pierre Dutilleux,

00:31:59.900 --> 00:32:02.790
a French explorer and ethnographer,
and his team

00:32:02.800 --> 00:32:07.400
had the privilege of making contact
with the Toulambi tribe,

00:32:07.800 --> 00:32:11.700
from Papua New Guinea,
who had never seen the white man

00:32:12.500 --> 00:32:14.500
and hadn't seen the outside world

00:32:14.700 --> 00:32:16.700
and hadn't tasted salt before.

00:32:17.100 --> 00:32:21.500
When they tasted it,
they hit their heads excited.

00:32:21.900 --> 00:32:26.500
Their taste buds and brains
were in total shock.

00:32:27.500 --> 00:32:31.400
I like this story because
we take everything for granted.

00:32:31.800 --> 00:32:34.500
We think the world is
this or that way,

00:32:34.900 --> 00:32:38.500
that we have internet access,
that we can have salt and sugar.

00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:41.100
That we have nothing left to discover.

00:32:41.500 --> 00:32:44.000
That everything will
always be there.

00:32:44.400 --> 00:32:45.900
But that's not true.

00:33:30.500 --> 00:33:33.100
I wanted to ask you,
because last year

00:33:33.500 --> 00:33:35.100
he had trouble with

00:33:37.500 --> 00:33:39.900
pronouncing certain things.

00:33:40.400 --> 00:33:41.900
He sometimes struggled.

00:33:42.390 --> 00:33:45.400
I've seen an improvement
this summer.

00:33:46.400 --> 00:33:49.490
And he has been spending time
with older friends

00:33:49.800 --> 00:33:52.200
and I see him wittier,
isn't he?

00:33:52.600 --> 00:33:54.200
Yes, he's come a long way.

00:33:54.800 --> 00:33:58.100
In fact, I noticed
he really wanted to come back,

00:33:58.500 --> 00:34:00.600
See his friends, his teacher,...

00:34:01.000 --> 00:34:05.100
Of course, at the end of the year
they want to rest and enjoy.

00:34:05.500 --> 00:34:09.900
But now they want to see everyone,
they go to the grown-ups class.

00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.800
But I see him very eager.

00:34:11.800 --> 00:34:14.500
Yes, he is more mischievous
than María.

00:34:22.300 --> 00:34:23.800
This was my classroom.

00:34:24.200 --> 00:34:26.100
And this one, and that one.

00:34:27.700 --> 00:34:29.300
And when I was...

00:34:31.100 --> 00:34:33.200
And in 8th grade, that one.

00:34:35.500 --> 00:34:37.500
Be careful.

00:34:44.500 --> 00:34:46.500
Will your dad be downstairs?

00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:55.500
Do you want to see where I am?
-Yes.

00:34:55.900 --> 00:34:58.200
I bet you can't find me.

00:35:01.500 --> 00:35:02.500
Who's that?

00:35:02.900 --> 00:35:05.300
Yes, that's me. With the hair.

00:35:08.500 --> 00:35:10.500
Can you see daddy here?
No?

00:35:12.500 --> 00:35:16.500
The one on the right corner.

00:35:16.900 --> 00:35:21.500
The one with the hair like that.

00:35:23.500 --> 00:35:26.500
Let's wait for dad
in the playground.

00:35:29.500 --> 00:35:34.500
But it's closed.
-Maybe it's open.

00:35:42.500 --> 00:35:46.500
Time spent during your childhood
never comes back,

00:35:47.500 --> 00:35:51.000
that's why those memories last forever.

00:35:51.400 --> 00:35:53.900
Because we perceive
time differently.

00:35:54.900 --> 00:36:01.500
However, everyone says we must
never let go of our inner children.

00:36:03.500 --> 00:36:08.100
We hear everywhere we must be
forever young, fun, and naive.

00:36:08.500 --> 00:36:12.500
This seems like a trap,
to keep buying useless stuff:

00:36:12.900 --> 00:36:14.800
like toys and other placebos.

00:36:16.500 --> 00:36:19.000
The truth is we stop being children

00:36:19.400 --> 00:36:22.500
we grow up, learn things,

00:36:22.900 --> 00:36:26.100
we gain experience
and some wisdom along the way.

00:36:26.500 --> 00:36:28.500
And that's a good thing.

00:36:28.900 --> 00:36:33.000
If you had been told you were
going to be a cook in L'Escaleta

00:36:33.400 --> 00:36:36.100
you wouldn't have believed it,
would you?

00:36:36.500 --> 00:36:38.800
I think I never even thought of it.

00:36:40.500 --> 00:36:44.500
For a child, you think
you will be trapped

00:36:44.900 --> 00:36:47.500
in this little universe forever.

00:36:48.500 --> 00:36:50.900
At school, with your friends,

00:36:51.300 --> 00:36:54.700
then, as you grow up you realize
it's not like that.

00:36:54.900 --> 00:36:58.500
As a child I never
wanted to be a cook.

00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:01.800
I wanted to be a crazy scientist.

00:37:01.900 --> 00:37:05.500
Yes, and you used to
burn your playmobil.

00:37:19.500 --> 00:37:22.500
Careful with these stairs.

00:37:29.500 --> 00:37:33.200
We had to enter the restaurant
down these stairs.

00:37:33.800 --> 00:37:36.200
That's why it's called L'Escaleta.

00:37:36.800 --> 00:37:40.200
Uncle Ramiro and...
-Grandma told us.

00:37:40.800 --> 00:37:43.200
Did she? Great, come in.

00:37:47.500 --> 00:37:49.500
Come in, over here, come here.

00:37:50.500 --> 00:37:53.500
Being here in the old L'Escaleta

00:37:53.900 --> 00:37:56.800
is like digging up
a childhood treasure

00:37:57.500 --> 00:38:00.500
with a lot of things
you had forgotten about,

00:38:00.900 --> 00:38:05.500
but which, after seeing them, it's
as you had lost them yesterday.

00:38:17.500 --> 00:38:22.500
We spent our lives here,
this was our personal theme park.

00:38:23.000 --> 00:38:29.500
It was curious because
it was a world designed for adults,

00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:32.200
where we could be.

00:38:32.600 --> 00:38:35.600
In the mornings,
people preparing everything,

00:38:36.500 --> 00:38:39.000
Then, suddently, everything
was ready.

00:38:39.500 --> 00:38:41.800
Everything shiny and perfect.

00:38:42.800 --> 00:38:46.500
It was like a play everyday,

00:38:47.500 --> 00:38:51.500
where you could watch everything
behind the fence.

00:38:52.500 --> 00:38:57.500
Until very recently Ramiro and dad
couldn't get in here.

00:38:57.900 --> 00:39:00.500
They would get very emotional.

00:39:00.900 --> 00:39:01.800
That's normal.

00:39:02.200 --> 00:39:05.000
They were always
trying to make it better.

00:39:05.400 --> 00:39:11.000
They would set up new areas,
tables, furniture,...

00:39:11.400 --> 00:39:15.500
A lot of work has been done,
and they've  suffered too.

00:39:15.900 --> 00:39:18.100
There were very tough times.

00:39:18.500 --> 00:39:26.500
Until recently I used to come here,
and it was all silent.

00:39:27.500 --> 00:39:30.100
You could hear people
passing outside.

00:39:30.500 --> 00:39:38.500
And do you remember
the pile of table linens?

00:39:38.900 --> 00:39:42.500
Table linens and napkins.

00:39:44.300 --> 00:39:46.000
Tete, look what I found!

00:39:46.700 --> 00:39:49.700
I remember playing
in the streets right here,

00:39:49.700 --> 00:39:52.900
and seeing mom
with a huge piles of table linens,

00:39:53.300 --> 00:39:56.100
and a garbage bag
for the afternoon snack,

00:39:56.500 --> 00:39:58.500
because we didn't have bags...

00:39:58.900 --> 00:40:00.100
Look what I found.

00:40:03.500 --> 00:40:06.500
Wow!
Do you know what this is, María?

00:40:06.900 --> 00:40:12.100
This was the sword
we gave the newly weds

00:40:12.500 --> 00:40:16.500
when we came out of the cake.
It was so embarrassing.

00:40:17.500 --> 00:40:23.500
And one night,
grandpa brought out the cake,

00:40:23.900 --> 00:40:26.500
and we were waiting for the music

00:40:26.900 --> 00:40:30.000
so that they could cut the cake,

00:40:30.500 --> 00:40:33.500
and there were children
playing around it

00:40:33.900 --> 00:40:37.000
and they saw your dad,
and he was so embarrassed

00:40:37.400 --> 00:40:40.700
that he kicked one of them
and he started bleeding.

00:40:41.100 --> 00:40:43.200
It was chaos in the dining room,

00:40:43.600 --> 00:40:45.600
I was trying to cover that up,

00:40:46.000 --> 00:40:48.600
the music playing,
the bride and groom,

00:40:49.000 --> 00:40:50.900
flashes,
people clapping,...

00:40:55.800 --> 00:40:57.800
Dad has put the prawns in salt.

00:40:58.200 --> 00:41:00.500
We want to dehydrate them.

00:41:02.500 --> 00:41:07.500
We want the water to be salty,
like sea salt.

00:41:15.500 --> 00:41:18.500
And now, we've put them
in salt, see?

00:41:19.300 --> 00:41:20.500
And they're raw.

00:41:20.900 --> 00:41:24.000
That's not a prawn,
that's a super prawn.

00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:26.000
Yes. We put them in salt.

00:41:26.900 --> 00:41:29.500
Every life period has
its good and bad,

00:41:29.900 --> 00:41:32.490
and helps you
get ready for the next one,

00:41:32.890 --> 00:41:35.800
and it's vital
not to lose one's curiosity,

00:41:36.200 --> 00:41:38.400
because thanks to your experiences

00:41:38.800 --> 00:41:41.700
you can transform
those childhood emotions

00:41:42.100 --> 00:41:43.700
into something specific.

00:41:44.100 --> 00:41:47.400
That's what I like about cooking: the specification.

00:41:47.800 --> 00:41:50.600
And what you can represent
with a dish.

00:41:51.000 --> 00:41:56.600
In the end a dish has to be
good, tasty, and honest.

00:41:57.100 --> 00:41:58.600
And it must be real.

00:41:59.000 --> 00:42:01.200
The tastiest part is the head.

00:42:01.500 --> 00:42:04.200
The best part of the prawn
is in its head.

00:42:04.800 --> 00:42:06.200
Here, try this.

00:42:06.800 --> 00:42:08.800
Do you want some, Tete?

00:42:13.500 --> 00:42:15.500
How is it, María?

00:42:19.500 --> 00:42:21.500
I can't get the juice out.

00:42:21.900 --> 00:42:23.500
No? Suck harder.

00:42:23.900 --> 00:42:26.500
It's lost a bit of juice,
try harder.

00:42:29.500 --> 00:42:31.500
"Salted prawns"

00:42:31.900 --> 00:42:34.100
Yes? Tete, do you want some?

00:42:34.500 --> 00:42:37.100
C'mon, harder, there you go!

00:43:18.300 --> 00:43:20.400
I have literally two families.

00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:24.300
Working together, my parents
and my aunt and uncle

00:43:24.700 --> 00:43:26.300
often change their roles.

00:43:26.700 --> 00:43:30.400
My aunt Nieves took care of us
when my parents couldn't,

00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:33.800
and my uncle Ramiro
was like a second father.

00:43:34.200 --> 00:43:36.100
He has a gift for storytelling.

00:43:36.500 --> 00:43:39.900
Sometimes they're little anecdotes
or memories, even jokes.

00:43:40.900 --> 00:43:43.300
But they come alive as he tells them.

00:43:43.700 --> 00:43:46.800
We like stories
because we like the storyteller.

00:43:47.200 --> 00:43:50.900
That same story told
by someone else is not interesting.

00:43:51.300 --> 00:43:53.500
The importance lies in the how.

00:43:54.500 --> 00:43:59.600
Making a documentary, you learn
that what most matters to you

00:44:00.000 --> 00:44:01.700
is too intimate to film.

00:44:02.100 --> 00:44:07.500
I often wish to return to fiction,
which is much freer.

00:44:11.500 --> 00:44:14.700
L'Escaleta has been all his life,

00:44:15.100 --> 00:44:19.500
and it seems as he hasn't had
time for anything else.

00:44:20.500 --> 00:44:27.500
I think we must look beyond
to find different areas,

00:44:27.900 --> 00:44:31.500
so it doesn't seem like
there's nothing else,

00:44:31.900 --> 00:44:34.500
that's good for no one.

00:44:35.500 --> 00:44:42.500
They're still at a point where they
feel and are a part of L'Escaleta.

00:44:42.900 --> 00:44:48.500
But I think they must
trust Alberto and I

00:44:48.900 --> 00:44:51.900
to carry that weight.

00:44:55.500 --> 00:44:58.500
Our vision of the future

00:44:59.500 --> 00:45:02.800
doesn't include
following their exact footsteps.

00:45:03.200 --> 00:45:08.300
Because I detect problems
I don't want to repeat.

00:45:08.500 --> 00:45:11.500
I want to have a life
beyond L'Escaleta.

00:45:15.300 --> 00:45:17.500
This business wears you down,

00:45:17.900 --> 00:45:20.500
your private life and family.

00:45:30.500 --> 00:45:33.900
Of course there are limits,
you set your own limits.

00:45:34.500 --> 00:45:39.500
The key is to enjoy your private
and professional life,

00:45:40.100 --> 00:45:42.400
I don't live for L'Escaleta only.

00:45:42.800 --> 00:45:46.300
I've got my children
whom I love dearly, and my wife.

00:45:46.700 --> 00:45:51.300
That's the limit,
I want to give them a life

00:45:51.700 --> 00:45:52.700
and enjoy it.

00:45:53.500 --> 00:45:57.500
And of course to work hard
and for my work to be acknowledged,

00:45:57.900 --> 00:45:59.900
and for the restaurant to grow.

00:46:00.300 --> 00:46:03.900
I'm not willing to risk
everything for anything.

00:46:04.500 --> 00:46:08.000
Neither for the three stars,
nor for recognition.

00:46:08.400 --> 00:46:11.000
If they are meant to be
they will come.

00:46:50.000 --> 00:46:52.900
Do you remember
that store in the village?

00:46:54.500 --> 00:46:57.000
Yes, I remember.
It worked very well.

00:46:57.400 --> 00:46:58.400
Indeed.

00:46:59.500 --> 00:47:04.500
He used orange juice
and made pop-sickles.

00:47:05.500 --> 00:47:08.100
Do you know what
we did when it snowed?

00:47:11.500 --> 00:47:15.300
My sisters and I
used to go outside,

00:47:15.700 --> 00:47:18.500
put snow in a cup
and add sugar to it.

00:47:18.900 --> 00:47:22.300
And it was the best ice-cream
we had all year long.

00:47:25.500 --> 00:47:30.500
You spend your youth running away
from your family and childhood,

00:47:31.500 --> 00:47:34.500
but you can't escape
from them, not really.

00:47:34.900 --> 00:47:37.490
And after discovering part of the world

00:47:38.000 --> 00:47:42.100
you long to return to them,
searching for your mother's lullaby.

00:47:52.100 --> 00:47:55.100
Wow, this is unbelievable.

00:47:56.500 --> 00:48:01.000
Imagine the effort
it took to get ice.

00:48:01.500 --> 00:48:04.500
Climbing up there,
building this huge well,

00:48:04.900 --> 00:48:07.800
stone by stone,
making that hole up there,

00:48:08.200 --> 00:48:12.500
then collecting snow, keep it for months,

00:48:12.900 --> 00:48:16.500
then taking it out with animals,
going to the village,

00:48:16.900 --> 00:48:19.500
without any cooling systems,

00:48:19.900 --> 00:48:25.500
it's like a cathedral or monolith
dedicated to that effort.

00:48:26.900 --> 00:48:29.400
Simply for having ice.

00:48:29.800 --> 00:48:34.500
That should make us think
about where we are,

00:48:34.900 --> 00:48:36.500
what we've accomplished,

00:48:37.500 --> 00:48:39.300
and where we come from.

00:48:39.700 --> 00:48:43.500
This was working until recently,
only a century ago.

00:48:43.900 --> 00:48:48.500
There were families here
who lived thanks to this business.

00:48:55.900 --> 00:48:58.400
And now a box of French oysters.

00:48:58.800 --> 00:49:02.300
If you don't have any,
go to Japofish, to Carlos,

00:49:02.700 --> 00:49:04.600
say it's for me.

00:49:10.500 --> 00:49:14.300
If you can get me that,
going to Valencia will be worth it.

00:49:14.300 --> 00:49:16.500
I won't call anyone else.

00:49:16.900 --> 00:49:19.100
Even if it's a bit later,
I'll go.

00:49:20.500 --> 00:49:23.500
Don't let me down,
at least those five things.

00:49:27.900 --> 00:49:33.500
Do whatever's necessary.
See you, Pedro.

00:49:51.500 --> 00:49:54.500
"The snow well"

00:51:31.500 --> 00:51:32.500
It's so quiet.

00:51:32.900 --> 00:51:35.500
It seems like it's saying something.

00:51:58.900 --> 00:52:00.500
"Private hunting ground".

00:53:04.500 --> 00:53:05.800
Very good.

00:53:23.500 --> 00:53:25.500
Hey, how are you?

00:53:26.500 --> 00:53:27.700
Fine.

00:53:30.200 --> 00:53:34.700
These types of plates invite you
to hold them in your hands.

00:53:35.100 --> 00:53:36.700
Because it's deeper.

00:53:37.100 --> 00:53:39.800
Yes, and also this texture,
which I loved

00:53:40.300 --> 00:53:43.500
is great because it invites to take the plate

00:53:43.900 --> 00:53:46.700
and smell it, which, thanks to its depth,

00:53:47.100 --> 00:53:50.700
it's easier to do so.

00:53:52.500 --> 00:53:55.100
I remember my mother
would scold us,

00:53:56.100 --> 00:53:59.000
when we smelled
the dishes in a restaurant.

00:53:59.000 --> 00:54:01.900
"Don't smell the plate,
what are you doing?"

00:54:02.300 --> 00:54:04.000
Yes, I was told that too.

00:54:04.400 --> 00:54:08.800
But I want people to smell them,
smelling them isn't a bad thing.

00:54:09.200 --> 00:54:11.500
It means it smells good.

00:54:19.500 --> 00:54:24.400
It reminds me of a tooth,
but it's a cloud.

00:54:24.800 --> 00:54:27.700
It has to be a cloud.

00:54:28.100 --> 00:54:33.500
When I told you about
that poem by Miguel Hernández,

00:54:34.500 --> 00:54:40.500
which mentioned
the almond milk clouds,

00:54:40.900 --> 00:54:43.500
how when the
almond tree flowers fall,

00:54:43.500 --> 00:54:46.300
the fields turn white as snow,

00:54:46.500 --> 00:54:50.500
and that's the almond tree flower
which has fallen.

00:54:53.500 --> 00:54:56.300
This seems very interesting to me,

00:54:56.500 --> 00:55:02.500
these dishes are meant to be held,

00:55:03.500 --> 00:55:06.500
the inside is different
from the outside.

00:55:11.900 --> 00:55:13.500
Luis, hey!

00:55:13.500 --> 00:55:15.500
Is that your brother?

00:55:16.500 --> 00:55:19.500
Yes. He is a bit rockabilly,
just like you.

00:57:24.500 --> 00:57:33.500
("Almond Rose" poem,
by Miguel Hernández)

00:57:36.500 --> 00:57:39.500
Memory is the crazy one,
not imagination,

00:57:39.900 --> 00:57:42.490
because we remember
through our emotions

00:57:42.900 --> 00:57:44.700
and we create in our memory.

00:57:45.100 --> 00:57:48.200
It's curious that in those lines
Kiko remembers,

00:57:48.500 --> 00:57:49.800
by Miguel Hernández,

00:57:50.200 --> 00:57:54.500
he talks about creamy almond trees,
but not about clouds.

00:57:56.800 --> 00:58:01.800
But his memory
remembers a cloud vividly.

00:58:03.500 --> 00:58:08.500
"Almond white cheese"

00:58:09.500 --> 00:58:11.500
Do you like the new dishes?

00:58:16.200 --> 00:58:17.500
It's very aromatic

00:58:23.500 --> 00:58:24.900
Where are you going?

00:58:28.900 --> 00:58:30.300
And your brother?

00:58:59.500 --> 00:59:00.900
How are you, man?

00:59:07.000 --> 00:59:08.300
Bad.

00:59:17.500 --> 00:59:20.000
As Mr. Jensen announced
in "Network":

00:59:20.040 --> 00:59:24.500
"The world is
a college of corporations

00:59:25.500 --> 00:59:29.500
inexorably determined by
the immutable bylaws of business.

00:59:30.500 --> 00:59:33.000
The world is a business, Mr. Beale.

00:59:33.400 --> 00:59:36.490
It has been since man
crawled out of the slime.

00:59:37.500 --> 00:59:42.500
And our children will live
to see that perfect world

00:59:43.500 --> 00:59:47.500
one vast and ecumenical
holding company,

00:59:47.900 --> 00:59:51.500
for whom all men will work
to serve a common profit,

00:59:52.500 --> 00:59:56.500
in which all men will hold
a share of stock,

00:59:57.500 --> 01:00:01.500
all necessities provided,

01:00:01.900 --> 01:00:04.500
all anxieties tranquilized,

01:00:05.500 --> 01:00:08.500
all boredom amused."

01:01:25.500 --> 01:01:28.490
I like to see people
working with their hands,

01:01:29.300 --> 01:01:31.800
whatever they do:
a tomato, a table,

01:01:32.500 --> 01:01:34.500
it makes you feel proud,

01:01:34.900 --> 01:01:38.100
but now we live in an era of
cognitive capitalism

01:01:38.500 --> 01:01:39.500
"Wine, Curii"

01:01:39.900 --> 01:01:43.700
Before, the working class used to
build or work the land.

01:01:43.700 --> 01:01:46.700
Now, they design web pages
or produce content,

01:01:47.100 --> 01:01:49.900
intangible property
which can be exchanged.

01:01:55.500 --> 01:01:59.500
We could take this out today.

01:02:24.100 --> 01:02:25.500
Hey, help me out here.

01:03:54.500 --> 01:03:57.500
I've always liked to weld,
since childhood,

01:03:58.500 --> 01:04:02.500
I was 14 years old
and already with my tools,

01:04:04.000 --> 01:04:06.100
but I ended up working non-stop,

01:04:08.500 --> 01:04:10.000
I had other hobbies,

01:04:11.400 --> 01:04:14.200
I went to Gandia
one day to see my brother,

01:04:14.800 --> 01:04:17.500
went to the largest hotel
on the beach,

01:04:17.900 --> 01:04:20.300
and said:
"I would like to work here",

01:04:20.700 --> 01:04:22.900
and they asked: "What can you do?"

01:04:23.300 --> 01:04:27.500
"Me? Anything.
Waiter, cook, whatever."

01:04:27.700 --> 01:04:31.500
And they needed someone
behind the bar, and I said: "Ok".

01:04:32.500 --> 01:04:36.500
And there I was lucky enough
to meet your mother.

01:04:37.800 --> 01:04:40.500
When I go to
throw away the bottles,

01:04:41.500 --> 01:04:45.500
I see a girl looking at me,
I waved at her,

01:04:45.900 --> 01:04:50.000
and we saw each other at the beach,
and that's how it started.

01:04:52.500 --> 01:04:55.300
They offered us
the old L'Escaleta place,

01:04:55.700 --> 01:04:58.100
and that's when the fusion started,

01:04:58.500 --> 01:05:01.500
with your uncle, Ramiro,
and your aunt, Nieves,

01:05:01.900 --> 01:05:03.900
we were so eager to do things,

01:05:04.300 --> 01:05:06.400
the four of us came together,

01:05:06.800 --> 01:05:10.100
and look at all the hours
we spend together now.

01:05:14.500 --> 01:05:25.500
(singing "Caballo prieto azabache",
by Antonio Aguilar)

01:05:34.500 --> 01:05:36.500
Excellent, thanks.

01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:49.300
Good morning, tell me.
-What do we have for lunch?

01:05:49.300 --> 01:05:52.500
Today, chicken wings and thighs...

01:05:53.500 --> 01:05:55.300
Brionet, the bill, please.

01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:01.000
Right away. Coffee and brandy,
a shot...?

01:06:01.400 --> 01:06:03.000
And my son's coffee.

01:06:03.500 --> 01:06:05.400
Cheers!

01:06:27.500 --> 01:06:31.700
In 1932, a farmer from Pego
brought rice grains

01:06:32.500 --> 01:06:33.700
to a seed bank.

01:06:34.100 --> 01:06:36.100
Thanks to this anonymous gesture,

01:06:36.500 --> 01:06:39.500
almost 90 years later,
Vicente Dominguis and his son

01:06:39.700 --> 01:06:43.700
have been able to recover
this unique variety of bomba rice:

01:06:44.100 --> 01:06:46.100
the bombon rice.

01:06:57.500 --> 01:07:02.500
That's the legacy, the knowledge
passed on from parents to children,

01:07:02.900 --> 01:07:07.500
and everyday this type of knowledge
gets interrupted by modern life,

01:07:07.900 --> 01:07:11.500
we just forget to take advantage of this,

01:07:11.900 --> 01:07:17.500
maybe because we believe what
we do is better than what they did.

01:07:17.900 --> 01:07:21.900
But now children don't often
follow their parents' footsteps.

01:07:22.300 --> 01:07:24.700
Dad, do you think
the rice is mature?

01:07:25.100 --> 01:07:28.100
I think we need to harvest
on Monday.

01:07:29.500 --> 01:07:31.100
On Monday we reap?
-Yes.

01:07:31.500 --> 01:07:33.500
Ok, then. We reap.

01:07:45.500 --> 01:07:48.900
My uncle, Ramiro, my aunt, Nieves,
and my parents,

01:07:49.300 --> 01:07:52.400
received a Michelin star
starting from scratch.

01:07:52.800 --> 01:07:55.400
My cousin and my brother,
another one.

01:07:55.800 --> 01:07:58.000
If they did what their parents do

01:07:58.400 --> 01:08:01.700
no one knows
what their kids could achieve.

01:08:03.500 --> 01:08:05.500
I remember a John Ford movie,

01:08:05.900 --> 01:08:10.500
where an old west settler
mentioned something I liked.

01:08:12.000 --> 01:08:14.200
"I hold a rifle and I'm a warrior

01:08:14.800 --> 01:08:17.300
so that my children
can work the land

01:08:17.700 --> 01:08:19.000
and be farmers.

01:08:19.400 --> 01:08:22.700
And so that my children's children
can be poets.

01:08:23.500 --> 01:08:29.500
That's legacy to me.
A piece of firm ground to stand on."

01:08:35.500 --> 01:08:40.500
We had an American client,
who was actually from Gandía,

01:08:41.500 --> 01:08:44.500
he spoke half American
half Valencian,

01:08:46.500 --> 01:08:49.500
and he carried half dollar coins,

01:08:50.100 --> 01:08:52.000
and we used to suck up to him,

01:08:52.300 --> 01:08:55.600
and I managed to get
three silver coins from him,

01:08:56.000 --> 01:08:57.700
because I served him well.

01:08:58.100 --> 01:08:59.500
And where's that coin?

01:08:59.900 --> 01:09:03.900
I don't know, maybe mum has it.
I haven't seen it again.

01:09:04.300 --> 01:09:09.500
One remembers
the most unbelievable things.

01:09:10.500 --> 01:09:14.500
Well, I'm going to take this to Kiko.

01:09:14.900 --> 01:09:18.500
See you!
-Bye!

01:09:51.500 --> 01:09:59.500
I need two Saboer menus,
entrées: nougat, oreo,...

01:10:00.500 --> 01:10:03.800
Razor clams, flowers,
prawns, foie gras,...

01:11:43.500 --> 01:11:46.600
I used to sleep in a cupboard
with my aunts,

01:11:47.100 --> 01:11:51.500
because they were Galician migrants
who had been to Cuba.

01:11:52.500 --> 01:11:56.500
And, with the revolution,
they sent them back to Spain.

01:11:58.500 --> 01:12:03.500
So when they passed away in Lugo,
one of their last wishes

01:12:06.500 --> 01:12:08.500
was to be buried in Cuba,

01:12:09.500 --> 01:12:13.500
but as it was difficult
because of the politic situation,

01:12:13.900 --> 01:12:16.500
and the family's economic situation,

01:12:17.500 --> 01:12:21.500
they were incinerated
and put in boxes,

01:12:22.500 --> 01:12:27.500
metal boxes from spark plugs,
as my dad had a motorcycle store,

01:12:27.900 --> 01:12:30.500
and they remained there
for two years

01:12:30.900 --> 01:12:34.500
until they managed to
take them there and bury them,

01:12:34.900 --> 01:12:37.500
I suppose it was a simple ceremony.

01:12:37.900 --> 01:12:40.900
Excuse me, our next elaboration:
squared rice

01:12:41.500 --> 01:12:43.700
A dry rice with dried salted tuna.

01:12:45.700 --> 01:12:46.900
Dried salted tuna.

01:12:48.500 --> 01:12:51.500
Dried salted tuna, man. Your wish.

01:12:54.500 --> 01:12:57.300
We have moved mountains
to bring you this.

01:12:57.700 --> 01:13:00.600
More than your aunts in cans
being sent to Cuba.

01:13:01.000 --> 01:13:03.800
Holy crap! Inside a cupboard
with two aunts.

01:13:04.500 --> 01:13:06.200
Well, let's see how it is.

01:13:06.800 --> 01:13:08.500
Can I tell you something?

01:13:09.500 --> 01:13:12.000
It has nothing to do
with your aunts.

01:13:15.100 --> 01:13:19.500
But every time I eat rice,
it reminds me of Pepe Sancho.

01:13:20.500 --> 01:13:25.500
A controversial guy, Pepe.

01:13:25.500 --> 01:13:27.500
"Pepe Sancho,... student"

01:13:29.500 --> 01:13:34.500
Pepe used to want to
compete with me in rice cooking.

01:13:34.900 --> 01:13:39.000
"I've been told you make good rice,
we need to make some paellas

01:13:39.400 --> 01:13:42.800
and let people decide
which one they like the best."

01:13:43.500 --> 01:13:45.000
"Alright, we'll do it."

01:13:45.400 --> 01:13:48.900
I made a tv show with him called
"Camino de Santiago",

01:13:49.300 --> 01:13:51.500
we spent almost a year working,

01:13:51.900 --> 01:13:54.000
it was an international tv show,

01:13:54.400 --> 01:13:58.900
with Charlton Heston,
Anthony Quinn, Robert Wagner

01:14:02.500 --> 01:14:04.100
we were the dumbest ones.

01:14:04.500 --> 01:14:09.100
Anthony Quinn would call Pepe and I
"those Colombian actors".

01:14:09.500 --> 01:14:13.900
Pepe used to hate it
when Anthony called him Colombian:

01:14:14.300 --> 01:14:17.200
"I'm going to smack
this old piece of shit".

01:14:17.300 --> 01:14:22.500
We were having dinner in Orense,
as usual

01:14:23.500 --> 01:14:25.500
with the producer and whatnot,

01:14:25.900 --> 01:14:28.300
and suddenly Pepe says,
at 10 p.m.,

01:14:28.700 --> 01:14:31.200
"Excuse me,
but I don't feel so well".

01:14:31.800 --> 01:14:33.200
"Are you really sick?"

01:14:33.800 --> 01:14:35.800
"Yes. Leave me alone,damn it!"

01:14:36.200 --> 01:14:38.400
Pepe was violent even when caring.

01:14:38.800 --> 01:14:42.500
So he goes back to the hotel,
we had some drinks.

01:14:43.300 --> 01:14:47.200
When we got back at 3 a.m.,
I was staying on the same floor,

01:14:47.800 --> 01:14:51.300
I don't remember the name,
but it was the fifth floor,

01:14:51.700 --> 01:14:55.500
the carpet was brown,
with a Boccaccio style wallpaper,

01:14:55.900 --> 01:14:57.500
like a 70's pop style,

01:14:57.900 --> 01:15:02.800
light brown, white, orange,
lighter orange, yellow, brown again

01:15:07.500 --> 01:15:09.400
it was like being high on LSD.

01:15:09.800 --> 01:15:12.900
I go to my room,
and when I'm about to open it,

01:15:13.300 --> 01:15:15.500
everything is covered in glitter,

01:15:15.900 --> 01:15:18.800
the floor, the walls,
the mirror, everything.

01:15:18.900 --> 01:15:23.500
And the glitter path,
like the yellow brick road,

01:15:23.900 --> 01:15:25.100
led to Pepe's room.

01:15:25.500 --> 01:15:27.900
And I was like,
"What happened here?"

01:15:28.300 --> 01:15:31.800
There was so much glitter
it got stuck in your shoes.

01:15:32.200 --> 01:15:36.500
On my bed, the hallway,
and I thought:

01:15:37.500 --> 01:15:39.500
"Maybe it's me". No.

01:15:40.300 --> 01:15:44.500
The next day at 9 a.m.,
we are called in to film,

01:15:44.900 --> 01:15:47.500
we were sitting
in the make-up room,

01:15:48.300 --> 01:15:51.500
on our stools,
facing the mirror, as usual,

01:15:51.900 --> 01:15:56.500
and the make-up artist says:
"Pepe, you're full of glitter".

01:15:57.500 --> 01:16:01.500
"I'm trying, but it's impossible
to cover all this glitter."

01:16:01.900 --> 01:16:05.500
And I look at him, and can you believe

01:16:06.500 --> 01:16:15.500
he had been making out with
three or four women of the night

01:16:16.500 --> 01:16:18.500
all around the hotel floor?

01:16:18.900 --> 01:16:21.700
He had left a trail,
and it was impossible

01:16:22.100 --> 01:16:23.800
to remove all the glitter.

01:16:24.200 --> 01:16:27.800
And one month later
there was still glitter in the car.

01:16:28.200 --> 01:16:30.300
Not only in the car, Pepe Sancho

01:16:30.700 --> 01:16:32.800
who, unfortunately, passed away,

01:16:33.200 --> 01:16:35.700
if we digged out his body,
like Dali,

01:16:36.100 --> 01:16:38.500
I'm sure we would see glitter!

01:16:41.500 --> 01:16:43.500
Yes, eat, c'mon.

01:16:47.500 --> 01:16:51.500
But every time I eat rice,
I remember Pepe.

01:16:55.500 --> 01:16:58.500
And I miss him.

01:17:03.500 --> 01:17:05.500
"Squared rice".

01:17:28.500 --> 01:17:31.500
"Alfarrasi Band Center"

01:19:15.500 --> 01:19:17.500
I see those guys, and I realize

01:19:17.900 --> 01:19:20.500
the most important quality
in a cook,

01:19:20.900 --> 01:19:23.500
isn't originality or imagination,

01:19:23.900 --> 01:19:25.500
but generosity.

01:19:25.900 --> 01:19:29.200
A good cook is someone
who offers someone something

01:19:29.800 --> 01:19:33.000
so that they can enjoy,
get to know, or even feel.

01:19:33.500 --> 01:19:35.500
That's what it's all about.

01:19:35.900 --> 01:19:37.500
This rice is awesome.

01:19:45.500 --> 01:19:47.500
Cheers!
-Cheers!

01:19:47.900 --> 01:19:50.500
Let these gatherings
happen more often,

01:19:52.500 --> 01:19:54.500
and let father pay.

01:20:36.500 --> 01:20:39.500
Let's party damnit!

01:22:43.500 --> 01:22:48.500
There's some left.
-No, there's not!

01:24:24.000 --> 01:24:27.500
We'd like to talk about
a part of L'Escaleta's history

01:24:27.900 --> 01:24:29.900
which I think it's important,

01:24:30.300 --> 01:24:32.200
this moment is very important,

01:24:32.800 --> 01:24:37.500
but we don't the book to
focus only on L'Escaleta's history.

01:24:40.500 --> 01:24:43.900
We want the restaurants
to be able to relate to this,

01:24:44.300 --> 01:24:47.300
which is the day to day life
in a restaurant,

01:24:47.700 --> 01:24:50.500
with two families,
who co-work with others.

01:24:51.900 --> 01:24:55.300
Nowadays, we put cooks on a pedestal,

01:24:56.500 --> 01:24:59.400
and it's time to
bring them back down a bit.

01:24:59.800 --> 01:25:02.000
Let's go back to where we belong.

01:25:02.500 --> 01:25:09.500
What we do is interesting,
but there are more important jobs.

01:25:12.300 --> 01:25:15.400
And suddenly one summer,
my brother disappeared,

01:25:15.800 --> 01:25:19.700
I was a teenager, and
didn't pay much attention to him,

01:25:20.100 --> 01:25:23.500
enough to notice he wasn't home.

01:25:24.300 --> 01:25:27.300
Then I found out
he was working in "El Bulli".

01:25:28.100 --> 01:25:30.500
'"El Bulli"?' I asked.
"What's that?"

01:25:30.900 --> 01:25:33.100
Ferrán comes in, really mad,

01:25:34.500 --> 01:25:41.500
he looks at us, and he says:
"You, go and make an omelette".

01:25:42.500 --> 01:25:45.700
I think I've never had
a worse moment in my life.

01:25:46.100 --> 01:25:49.500
Because I was thinking:
"Please, don't pick me".

01:25:49.900 --> 01:25:51.100
"Not me, not me".

01:25:52.500 --> 01:25:57.500
I go outside,
"can you make an omelette?"

01:25:58.500 --> 01:26:01.700
I think I had never made
an omelette in my life.

01:26:01.700 --> 01:26:03.700
And the first time I made one,

01:26:04.100 --> 01:26:05.700
was here, in "El Bulli",

01:26:06.100 --> 01:26:07.700
in front of Ferrán Adriá.

01:26:08.100 --> 01:26:10.300
I made such a shitty omelette, man.

01:27:10.500 --> 01:27:12.500
María?

01:27:15.500 --> 01:27:17.000
Hello?

01:27:19.500 --> 01:27:20.500
How are you?

01:28:13.500 --> 01:28:19.500
But I'm not willing to
risk everything for anything.

01:28:24.500 --> 01:28:28.500
Neither for the three stars,
nor for recognition.

01:28:28.900 --> 01:28:31.500
If they are meant to be
they will come.

01:28:33.500 --> 01:28:38.500
I think balance is key,
between enjoying your job,

01:28:39.900 --> 01:28:42.500
offering your clients
the best you have,

01:28:43.500 --> 01:28:46.500
and to offer the best I have,
I need balance.

01:28:47.500 --> 01:28:48.500
In every area.

01:28:50.500 --> 01:28:52.500
And growing too much too soon,

01:28:53.500 --> 01:28:57.500
can lead to plummeting.

01:28:58.500 --> 01:29:00.500
So it must be maintainable.

01:29:01.500 --> 01:29:05.000
I think every working person
longs for that balance

01:29:05.500 --> 01:29:09.500
between a good life
and acknowledgment,

01:29:09.900 --> 01:29:11.500
and a bit of everything.

01:29:24.500 --> 01:29:28.500
The trip to get to L'Escaleta
starts in Alicante, in Valencia.

01:29:28.900 --> 01:29:31.500
It's not just about
going to L'Escaleta.

01:29:31.900 --> 01:29:36.500
The experience begins
where you start your trip.

01:29:37.500 --> 01:29:40.500
L'Escaleta wouldn't be
the same anywhere else.

01:29:40.900 --> 01:29:43.700
It would be something
completely different.

01:29:44.500 --> 01:29:48.500
That's why I don't want
to relocate.

01:29:49.500 --> 01:29:52.700
From a little mountain village, like Cocentaina,

01:29:53.100 --> 01:29:55.100
we can reach wherever we want.

01:29:55.500 --> 01:29:58.500
If you do it right,
if you're persistent,

01:29:58.900 --> 01:30:01.700
and you believe in it,
you can go anywhere.

01:30:02.500 --> 01:30:06.500
Nowadays there is no excuse to,
no matter where you were born,

01:30:07.500 --> 01:30:09.500
go anywhere you want.

01:30:09.900 --> 01:30:12.500
I see it clearer every day.

01:30:14.500 --> 01:30:16.900
I am lucky to have been born here,

01:30:17.500 --> 01:30:21.500
to have developed
my personal and professional life here,

01:30:21.900 --> 01:30:27.500
which you have had
to leave Cocentaina,

01:30:27.900 --> 01:30:29.000
so I feel lucky,

01:30:29.400 --> 01:30:32.800
because not many people
have been able to do that.

01:30:44.500 --> 01:30:48.190
Any day now, they're going
to call us from the quarters.

01:30:49.500 --> 01:30:51.500
One day Ramiro says to me:

01:30:51.900 --> 01:30:53.500
"Vicente, come out here".

01:30:53.900 --> 01:30:55.600
I got outside, and he says:

01:30:56.000 --> 01:30:58.500
"The rangers are looking for you."

01:30:58.900 --> 01:30:59.900
No way, Ramiro.

01:31:00.300 --> 01:31:03.100
"What herb did you
grab from the mountain?"

01:31:03.500 --> 01:31:05.100
I said: "Nothing"

01:31:05.500 --> 01:31:06.800
"Well, go outside".

01:31:07.200 --> 01:31:10.000
And I go outside and
there's no one there.

01:31:10.400 --> 01:31:11.450
I want potatoes.

01:31:11.850 --> 01:31:14.650
Something's going to
happen to you one day.

01:31:15.000 --> 01:31:16.700
At my house, in L'Escaleta,

01:31:17.100 --> 01:31:20.500
Everyone has their place
around the table.

01:31:20.900 --> 01:31:24.500
Waiters and cooks eat
with their families in the back.

01:31:24.900 --> 01:31:27.500
It's one the things I love the most

01:31:28.500 --> 01:31:31.500
when I return to Cocentaina
with my children,

01:31:31.900 --> 01:31:34.500
eating with them at that big table.

01:31:35.500 --> 01:31:38.700
People used to be aware
of how much this means,

01:31:38.700 --> 01:31:42.500
and knew how hard it was
to fill that hole when a loved one

01:31:43.000 --> 01:31:44.500
was gone forever.

01:31:44.900 --> 01:31:51.500
It didn't matter where you were,
any kid had a place at home,

01:31:52.500 --> 01:31:55.500
and that made them feel
loved, important.

01:31:57.500 --> 01:32:00.000
Nowadays, we eat
in front of the tv,

01:32:00.400 --> 01:32:02.900
and that will result
in a generation

01:32:03.300 --> 01:32:05.200
with no communicative skills,

01:32:05.800 --> 01:32:09.400
who fail to look each other
in the eye when they speak.

01:32:09.500 --> 01:32:14.500
After a while, I have lost
my place at the restaurant table.

01:32:15.500 --> 01:32:18.900
But I know when I return,
I'll always have a place

01:32:19.300 --> 01:32:22.500
for me and my family.

01:32:30.500 --> 01:32:35.500
To Greta and Julio Moya.

01:32:41.500 --> 01:32:46.500
"A God in each lentil."