Carme Ruscalleda, About Her Parents: "He and My Mother Mortgaged Their House. They Gambled Everything"

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Carme Ruscalleda built one of the most important careers in Spanish gastronomy, but before the Michelin stars there was a family decision that could have ended very badly. When she decided to open Sant Pau with Toni Balam, her parents did something she still remembers with emotion: they put their own home at stake to help her. "He and my mother mortgaged their house. They gambled everything," she explained years later when recalling those first …