Guillermo Calabrese, famous for his conduction of the popular Cocineros Argentinos cycle on Public TV, died this Friday at the age of 61. The surroundings of the well-known and beloved chef confirmed the sad news in the early hours of the day and revealed that the chef suffered a decompensation during the early morning and was hospitalized urgently, but did not resist and ended up dying due to cardiac arrest.
As it became known, the renowned chef He felt bad in the middle of the morning and was assisted at the Fernández Hospital in the Federal Capitalwhere, despite the efforts of the doctors, he died shortly after admission.
THE BEGINNINGS OF THE HAND OF JAT DUMAS
Born on October 5, 1961 in the City of Buenos Aires and with deep Italian roots, he had a strong attraction to cooking since he was a child. Although he tried his hand at being a medical student, he ultimately ended up dedicating himself to that first love, became a chef, and made it to television.
Calabrese was for years one of the disciples of the remembered dumas cat and together with him he opened the Colegio de Cocineros, an institution that was a pioneer in the teaching of gastronomy in Argentina. “El Gato and I ended up opening other restaurants, doing television, giving classes all over the country. When the classes ended, people asked us where we taught cooking and that was the trigger to open the College,” he explained in 2014 in an interview with the place To the table.
A fan of his cooking, Calabrese used to go to eat at the chef’s restaurant and one day he wrote him a letter asking him to be his teacher. He then had an extensive interview with Dumas and finally hired him to work. He started then as a cleaner in the restaurant and then went through all the positions in the kitchen, until he ended up being a chef.
ARGENTINE COOKS AND THE SUCCESS OF TV
On television, Calabrese made his own career and in 2010 became one of the founders of the hit show Argentine cooks. The cycle became one of the emblems of the state signal and even after its departure a decade later, in 2020; it is still being broadcast.
In 2020, Calabrese left the cycle that made him famous. “They were many years of work in Argentine cooks. Entertainment, fun and learning. I would love to continue, but everything has an end, everything ends. I take the best. The good people I met and the affection of the public. I’m very well. Thank you!”he maintained in his own Twitter account when he said goodbye to Public TV, regretting his departure.
From 2022 to the present he was at the forefront of the cycle what tomorrow, by The Nine; another cooking magazine in which he demonstrated his histrionics, good vibes and ability to drive.
