María Marte left her home in the Dominican Republic in 2003 for a by-the-hour cleaning job at a Madrid restaurant. Now she’s one of Spain’s most revered chefs
Her voice competing to be heard over music blaring from the stereo, María Marte weaves her way through a dozen cooks readying their stations and heads to a stairwell behind the kitchen at Madrid’s El Club Allard restaurant.
More than a decade ago, when she was working here, one of the Spanish capital’s top restaurants, as a dish washer, Marte would curl up on the red-tiled staircase for a few moments of sleep between her near constant chain of work.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 19 hours ago.
Her voice competing to be heard over music blaring from the stereo, María Marte weaves her way through a dozen cooks readying their stations and heads to a stairwell behind the kitchen at Madrid’s El Club Allard restaurant.
More than a decade ago, when she was working here, one of the Spanish capital’s top restaurants, as a dish washer, Marte would curl up on the red-tiled staircase for a few moments of sleep between her near constant chain of work.
Continue reading... Reported by guardian.co.uk 19 hours ago.