Chef Alex Fargas shares his culinary beginnings with South China Morning Post

Chef-owner Alex Fargas

How did you become interested in cooking? “I have loved eating since I was four years old. My favourite toy was a play kitchen. Every day, I woke my mother up and asked her what she wanted for breakfast and we would play for an hour.

“When I grew up, I thought being a chef I could travel the world while cooking. At that time, chefs like Ferran Adrià, Carme Ruscalleda, Santi Santamaria and Joan Roca were on television, and people talked about restaurants in general.”

What did your parents think of you going to culinary school? “When I was 20 years old, I thought of studying physics because I was good at it, but I wanted to be a chef. When I told my parents, it took my mother a day to understand, while my father didn’t say much. The next day, my mother supported me 200 per cent, saying she’d make sure I went to Hofmann, the best culinary school in Barcelona, Spain. But the school intake was full, with 10 people on the waiting list.

“You know how my mother got me in? She called every day, saying she wanted her son to go there. On September 3, she called me to say she’d got me the space – school started in a week.”

Read the beautiful full article by Bernice Chan on SCMP linked here.