“For me it is very important to be here,” said Ferran Adrià. “Today we have become a family again,” stated the chef. We are at Can Jubany, at an event of homage to Santi Santamaria, organized by his son Pau, fifteen years after his death. Today everyone has come. “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 to many chefs. And like a good mother, today she looked happy that, finally, a hard and bloody battle for those who lived it was being – posthumously, of course – brought to an end, and that time 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.