Please, look carefully at the photo that accompanies this text.
Do you see?
I see everything.
I see joy, I see wisdom, I see work, I see effort, I see ... life.
It's
Aurelia
, one of the applicants for last night's
MasterChef Grandparents special
, but she could have put a photo of any of them, because what they gave us last night is priceless, it's priceless.
Guadalupe
, the winner,
Carmen
,
Aurelia
,
Santiago
,
José
,
Lidia
,
Pilar
,
Stephen
,
Juan
,
Carmen García
... Each and every one of them turned a one-day special is a must.
Yes,
MasterChef
has to have its own
Grandparent MasterChef
, nothing special from a single program, an entire edition.
Why?
Because it was just wonderful, they were wonderful.
The same thing is that something good that the coronavirus pandemic has brought with it is that we have realized how important these generations are, how much we need them, all that they have left to give, to live.
And all that was seen last night at
MasterChef Grandparents
.
It was so extremely special that as much as it had the same dynamic as other
MasterChef
, what they did last night has nothing to do with
MasterChef
.
Yes, of course they cooked;
of course they passed the corresponding tests;
of course there was a winner;
of course there were evaluations.
However, they made all that theirs, so theirs that everything was different.
Watching
MasterChef Grandparents
last night I thought, ours has been a total involution, while his is a spectacular evolution.
I can't imagine any of us at 84 as
Carmen
is
, or at 86 as
Guadalupe
, the 'grandmother of dragons', or at 78 with
Aurelia's
claw
, or at 75 with José's life force. .
We have done something wrong or something they have done too well.
Or maybe they do know what it is to live and we haven't figured it out yet.
I don't know what it will be, but it is clear that what we saw last night is not normal, it is exceptional.
And it is precisely exceptional because they have lived what we have not.
It is what can be called their life experience, a life experience that has made them unique, that has made them the most necessary in our lives, in those of their grandchildren, in those of young people, in anyone's.
Grandparents dragons by MasterChef Grandparents
You just had to see them last night.
Genius, all you wanted and more, but not a word was heard louder than the other, not a bad gesture, not a lack of respect, not an iota of evil.
Of course, they said to each other without mincing words what it seemed to them at all times.
But there was not a drop of what there is so much now.
They let go of their taunts, they were very comfortable, and whoever they took him either responded with all the calm and all the humor in the world, or he didn't shut up either.
But do not think that they felt bad, or that they looked tense, or anything like that.
They enjoyed every minute of the program, with their nerves, with everything that comes with participating in a program like
MasterChef,
but always and at all times, respecting each other, being themselves, being grandparents of dragons.
I doubt that any of those who saw the
MasterChef Grandparents
special last night would
not be excited or remember theirs.
I lost mine a long time ago, at four, and I have to admit that last night watching
MasterChef Grandparents,
each and every one of them brought back to my memory the best moments I spent with mine because each of them had something that they had my grandparents.
That moment of
Aurelia
, preparing the Fuentesaúco chickpea stew in the first test, while trying to sell
2,000 kilos of chickpeas
and at the same time finding a girlfriend for her son to get rid of him.
Aurelia lives in a hotel, the hotel that she built, and wants to sell her son.
As you hear it
.
In fact, he has tried to make love arise between him and
Loles Leon.
"My son's name is José and he is very good. When he was young he was very good and he took away his girlfriends and now I even ask for a loan so that they can take him from front of me and no one takes him," he said last night with a laugh.
And it is that when
Aurelia
presented the first course of the first test, the light bulb went on and she realized that she and her son could make a wonderful couple.
More than just a great couple, who could have a chance to shake him off that way.
But in addition to a son to whom he wants to sell, the hotel and the chickpeas, he also has
orchard of 3,000 meters, and a vineyard from which he takes 200 liters of Mostacel and Albiño wine.
"And those are for me. I drink from those big glasses, one at noon and one at 12 at night, before I go to bed."
Lesson number one.
Or any of them, who had to cook with the children of
MasterChef Junior
, and had not the slightest compunction when it came to admitting that some were more than unbearable.
For example,
José
, who had to cook with
Antony
, from
MasterChef Junior 8
, and suffered what is not written.
Holy patience she had.
Now, if they are unbearable, they are unbearable and it is said.
Or
Lidia's
moment
at the outdoor test when she took the upper hand and started to captain the blue team, even though the captain was
Stephen
.
She took out the woman's weapons and there was no one to scold her.
And what did Stephen do?
Give in and acknowledge that he is useless to command and delegated to
Lidia
without question and without even a bad face.
Not even when the judges came to play the flats a bit did he have a higher voice than another.
Well, yes, let her send, because this is a team and here the important thing is that everything goes well.
Of course.
As it should be.
Guadalupe, the winner of MasterChef Abuelos
Or the moves of
Guadalupe
and
Aurelia
during the cooking of the outdoor test.
Can you imagine two forces of nature colliding?
Well imagine Aurelia and Guadalupe.
What if the onion in the sauce, what if the pieces of peppers, what if I'm the one in charge, what if 'I tell you' ... That's how they were all cooked.
They did not shut up or half with each other.
Do you think they ended up like the rosary of dawn?
Well, no.
Each one said what they thought about each other, what they considered should be done, what came out of the gig for each one and at no time did they lose their composure, nor were there any chickens, or movements.
Lesson number two.
And you have to talk about Guadalupe yes or yes.
Winner of the
Grandparents MasterChef
special
and a top to toe crack.
She is the oldest of the 10 applicants who participated last night, but being May with her does not go.
Guadalupe is older in the DNI, nothing more.
She is the
Grandmother of dragons
, the name given to her by Carlos Herrera.
And as Grandmother of dragons, she took over the iron throne.
"I am a Game of Thrones fan. So, when I saw the last series of
Games of Thrones
, my granddaughters recorded me. I was in a nightgown, and I was on Instagram. You can't get the idea what was formed ".
And that
is
why
Guadalupe
is the
Grandmother of dragons
and now the
khaleesi
of
MasterChef Grandparents
.
But if I am left with some of what was seen last night, it was the reunion with their families.
I write it and tears still come to my eyes.
MasterChef
chose
Salamanca
for the outdoor test and had an exceptional ambassador,
Santiago
, father of the presenter
Ion Aramendi
, Basque by birth, but adopted son of Salamanca, who spoke of his Salamanca with such passion and such love that, as I do not name him favorite son it is to kill them.
The fact is that the program played deception with them.
He told them that the cooking they were going to prepare would be for famous people.
Yes, they were excited that you don't see, but even more so when they discovered that who they were going to feed was their families.
Many of them had not seen them in person for months because of the coronavirus.
So imagine what that was like.
Oh please!
When that
Lidia
brought the dishes to the table and saw her grandchildren and held on without dropping them and I can't help hugging them, crying and getting emotional.
My mother, my mother ... "When I have seen my children and my grandchildren ... It seemed impossible to me. Especially the one in Madrid because with this pandemic, since I had not seen him for many months," he acknowledged Lidia.
And that "what bastards!"
of
Stephen
to the reacquainted with her sister, with her grandson, his daughter.
"I love you, i love you", they said to themselves over and over again.
I became
Loles León
, come cry like a cupcake.
Because if the grandparents were the big stars last night,
Loles León
was the Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn.
Loles León
has to be in
MasterChef Abuelos
and if they give him more programs too.
He couldn't do it better because if he does it better, he eats RTVE and whatever they put on him.
Loles León, spectacular at MasterChef Abuelos
Loles León
was the spark that
MasterChef Abuelos
needed
, it was the connecting thread between everything and everyone, it was the missing piece for this special, it was ... it was as wonderful as they were.
If the grandparents were surprised, I wo
n't even tell you
about
Loles León
.
Who would have thought that after his crazy passage through the kitchens of
MasterChef
he could get to embroider it as he embroidered it last night?
He was supposed to replace
Samantha Vallejo-Nágera
as third judge of
culinary
talent
and what he did was give culinary talent a fresh air.
She did not play the role that belonged to her at all, she was neither the screaming judge, nor the dessert judge, nor the third in disagreement, she was
Loles León
in full swing, authentic as herself, perfect for a program in which authenticity overflowed everywhere.
Without her this
Grandparents MasterChef
would not have been as special as it was.
It was his way of crying, his way of talking to the applicants, his way of fitting in, his way of laughing, his way of running the program when it was his turn, his way of doing everything.
Just perfect for this role, just perfect for
MasterChef Grandparents
, just perfect for
MasterChef
.
And it is that the
MasterChef Grandparents
of last night you can not put a but.
Yes, it is true, only one, who remained as a special when it has to be an edition.
It is not that they deserve it, but also that we deserve it.
They can and have so much to give, so much to prove and so much to give us that
MasterChef Abuelos
has to stay forever.
Just like they did last night when they gave us back the grandfather who has not seen for so long, the grandfather who cannot be hugged, the grandfather who is no longer here, the grandfather who is sorely missed.
The Grandparents of
MasterChef gave
us back last night what should never have been forgotten, that they are essential, that they have given us everything, that they are everything.
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