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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: you're 74 now, right? >> arzak: seventy-four. since i was 20 or 22 i've been here with my mother. until i got married. i inh...

World, i met bocuse, troisgros, chapel. >> anthony: so how many years in the restaurant business? >> gabriella: you're 74 now, right? >> arzak: seventy-four. since i was 20 or 22 i've 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. i've been very lucky. >> anthony: in 1976, 12 basque chef's under the influence of the recently emerged nouvelle cuisine movement in france formed what later became known as the gang of 12. committing themselves to both modernizing and protecting the culinary trad...

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: you're 74 now, right? >> arzak: seventy-four. since i was 20 or 22 i've 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. i've been very lucky. >> antho...