“It is very important for me to be here”, said Ferran Adrià. “Today we have become a family again”, affirmed the chef. We are at Can Jubany, at an event in tribute to Santi Santamaria, organized by his son Pau, fifteen years after his death. Everyone has come today. “How nice that we are all here”, said Roser Torres, the woman who has organized the biggest gastronomic events of recent decades. She is known as Mama by many chefs. And like a good mother, she looked happy today that, finally, a battle that was hard and bloody for those who lived it and that time has finally reconciled was being brought to a close – posthumously, of course. has ended up reconciling.

I still remember the day we met. I was working in France, and one weekend when I returned to Sant Pol, I went to cook at Salvador Sauleda's house with Josep Vilella. During that meal, they mentioned a man named Santi Santamaria; I'd never heard of him before. They told me he had a restaurant in Sant Celoni, a town in the Baix Montseny region. "He has two Michelin stars," they said. And so I went back to Paris.