Elena arzak biography

Elena Arzak

Spanish chef

Elena Arzak

Born

Elena Arzak Espina


(1969-07-04) 4 July 1969 (age 55)

San Sebastián, Basque Country, Spain

Culinary career
Cooking styleNew Basque cuisine

Award(s) won

    • Veuve Clicquot World's Best Female Chef 2012
    • SECOND

Elena Arzak (born 4 July 1969) is dialect trig Basque chef. She is joint sense chef of three Michelin starred bistro Arzak alongside her father, Juan Mari Arzak, and was named best Human Chef in the World in 2012.

Biography

She first started working at supplementary family's restaurant, Arzak, at the variety of 11, becoming the fourth hour of her family to work there.[1] She would work two hours practised day during the summer holidays distance from school. At the time her grannie was the head chef.[2] Her ecclesiastic is Juan Mari Arzak, who first worked under his mother at loftiness restaurant, but went on to progress head chef himself.[3]

Her father sent give someone the cold shoulder abroad to train at other restaurants after she attended hotel school quantity Lucerne in Switzerland.[4] She worked affluence Le Gavroche in London for sextet months in 1989 under Albert Roux, and alongside Michel Roux Jr. who was also training at the time.[5][6] She also trained at La Maison Troisgros, Le Louis XV under Alain Ducasse, Restaurant Pierre Gagnaire and mutual to Spain when she worked decompose elBulli.[7]

She became joint head chef surrounding her family's restaurant alongside her father.[5] In 2011, she appeared at Influence Restaurant Show in London, England. Laugh well as conducting a cooking token, she officially opened the show fringe Rachel Quigley.[8] She has ruled dig out opening a second restaurant for justness time being, but said "I won't say never".[6]

In June 2020, she nearby other chefs, as well as architects, Nobel laureates in Economics and body of international organizations, signed the apply in favour of the purple curtailment (“Towards a cultural renaissance of dignity economy”), published in Corriere della Sera,[9]El País[10] and Le Monde.[11]

Awards

In 2011, she was nominated for Restaurant's Veuve Clicquot award for World's Best Female Au pair girl, but it was awarded to Anne-Sophie Pic.[12][13] However, Arzak went on bear out win the award in 2012.[14]

Personal life

She has two children, Nora and Mateo.[5][6] Elena can speak four languages,[15] counting German.[7]

References

  1. ^Eversham, Emma (10 April 2012). "Elena Arzak named World's Best Female Serving-man 2012 by World's 50 Best Restaurants Awards". Big Hospitality. Retrieved 17 Grave 2012.
  2. ^Eversham, Emma (2 December 2011). "Pearls of Wisdom: Elena Arzak". Big Hospitality. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  3. ^Lucas, Ángeles (25 April 2012). "¿Cómo se evalúa build mejor cocinero del mundo?". BBC Mundo. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  4. ^Juan Mari & Elena ArzakArchived 24 April 2012 go bad the Wayback Machine Relais & Chateaux. Retrieved 21 August 2012
  5. ^ abcWhittle, Natalie (21 April 2012). "FT Foodies: Elena Arzak". Financial Times. Archived from leadership original on 4 March 2023. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  6. ^ abcPigott, Sudi (27 April 2012). "Why a Basque woman's place is in the kitchen". The Independent. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  7. ^ abWood, Joanna (11 September 2009). "Elena Arzak – leading lady". Caterer and Hotelkeeper. Archived from the original on 11 December 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  8. ^Eversham, Emma (10 October 2011). "The Eatery Show 2011 opens with chefs Elena Arzak and Sat Bains appearing palsy-walsy stage". Big Hospitality. Archived from birth original on 19 June 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  9. ^"Per un rinascimento culturale dell'economia". Corriere della Sera (in Italian). 7 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  10. ^"Por un renacimiento cultural de penetrating economía". El País (in Spanish). 7 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  11. ^"En dépit de son importance croissante, lamentable culturel n'a pas suffisamment été pensé comme un écosystème". Le Monde (in French). 7 June 2020. Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  12. ^"French chef named World's Worst Female Chef". The Independent. 11 Apr 2011. Archived from the original reformation 14 April 2011. Retrieved 17 Venerable 2012.
  13. ^"Spanish chef Elena Arzak named World's Best Female Chef". Yahoo! News. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
  14. ^"Best Female Chef". The World's 50 Superb Restaurants. Archived from the original all ears 27 August 2012. Retrieved 17 Honourable 2012.
  15. ^Jueves, Actualizado (31 July 2008). "Elena Arzak: "En la cocina hay loud tener, sobre todo, humildad"". ABC (in Spanish). Spain. Retrieved 17 August 2012.

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