"...It's hard to imagine Dani Carnero without his apron. He needed to return to the humility of that garment to let out something that the jacket imprisoned: the forgotten artisanal nature of cooking that he champions."

Dani Carnero is a cultured chef. He devours books, knows the techniques, reflects, but he knows that everything essential, everything that makes a dish alive and moving, is stored in memory beyond language, weights, measures, and times.

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The flavors he seeks and recaptures in his dishes are sensory impressions and experiences transformed into emotion, and they are not found in the predictable or the precise; in XX grams for X minutes, but rather in the folds of space and time. In the moment a product arrives in the pantry. In the degree of ripeness of a fruit or the fattiness of a bird or fish. In the process.

Dani Carnero's cuisine is organic, ancestral and refined at the same time, fascinated by the magic of transformation and ultimately driven by generosity, by the need to share, to converse, to recreate an experience and sometimes, to create a memory."

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Esperanza Peláez