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Because my father died when i was eight, i am an only child, very spoiled by all the waitresses. first i helped my mom and then i studied architecture for one year in madrid. there was a friend there who was in cooking school and he told me it was very simple. it was three years. at the weekends, you could work as an extra cook. and later i travelled around the world, i met bocuse, troisgros, chapel. >> anthony: so how many years in the restaurant business? >> gabriella: youre 74 now, right? >> ...

World, i met bocuse, troisgros, chapel. >> anthony: so how many years in the restaurant business? >> gabriella: youre 74 now, right? >> arzak: seventy-four. since i was 20 or 22 ive been here with my mother. until i got married. i inherited the restaurant from my mother, because i was an only child. and she also left me some money. ive been very lucky. >> anthony: in 1976, 12 basque chefs under the influence of the recently emerged nouvelle cuisine movement in france formed what later became kno...

Studied architecture for one year in madrid. there was a friend there who was in cooking school and he told me it was very simple. it was three years. at the weekends, you could work as an extra cook. and later i travelled around the world, i met bocuse, troisgros, chapel. >> anthony: so how many years in the restaurant business? >> gabriella: youre 74 now, right? >> arzak: seventy-four. since i was 20 or 22 ive been here with my mother. until i got married. i inherited the restaurant from my mo...