Cătălin Scarlătescu is one of the most successful chefs in Romania and this autumn he returns to MasterChef.
Catalin Scarlatescu. PHOTO Antenna 1
Chef Cătălin Scărlătescu comes from a family of tavern owners. The juror from MasterChef, show where he returns from this autumn, says that he had to work hard for what he has become today.
“I was saying to my colleague and fantastic brother Dumitrescu: “Television hit you at 24 years old. It didn’t hit me until I was 40 or something. The hardest and worst was the road. But that was my purpose today, to work. We, those of the 70-71 generation, were at work. There was no way I could cheat work. Right now there are a bunch of chefs ripping it off. I know how to make 3-4 dishes, go to Google, solve Google everything, done!
We are looking for Jamila, we manage to make any cake. In the early years, there was no Google. I had books, I bought a lot of books. I started with the nomenclature from ONT with the red covers, and now I have it at home somewhere, full of fat, grease, oil…”said Scărlătescu, writes libertatea.ro.
The chef mentioned that if he hadn’t become a chef, he would have liked to be a sommelier.
“I’m a big, big fan of wine. I love wine in every way. Not necessarily to drink wine, but to understand wine. I’m not a fan of log wine, I’m a fan of wine that has a story behind it, a fantastic story“, revealed Cătălin Scărlătescu for VIVA magazine.
Scarlătescu also confessed that his grandmother helped him discover his passion for cooking, and at the age of 7 he made his first potato stew, listening to her instructions on the phone.
“For me, grandma was pretty much everything. Those born in the 70s, such as myself, were very close to their grandparents. Everyone in our generation lived only with grandparents. I can honestly say that our respect for our grandparents was immense. In fact and right, they were our parents. Because, at the time, the parents were going to work. There were no Filipino nannies, no Thai nannies. There were units called crèches and you would go and leave the child there. But no, most of the children lived with their grandparents”, said Cătălin Scarlătescu.
