Ricard Camarena bases his cuisine on Valencia’s local vegetable production. His constant search for harmony between flavours has seduced the critics and crossed borders. Alongside Mari Carmen Bañuls, the brain behind the management of their restaurants, the two form an indissoluble team which have overcome great adversity to achieve success, vouched for by two Michelin stars and the recent National Gastronomy Prize. The couple are enjoying their most balanced moment. Balanced? The Covid-19 outbreak has thrown them up against a hitherto unheard-of challenge: to reopen their restaurants with the uncertainty of the “new normal”. Heedless of the pandemic, the vegetable garden continues its natural growth cycle and offers the chef a new horizon of flavours.
Óscar Bernàcer (Palma de Mallorca, Spain. 1978) has written and directed the short films Las zapatillas de Laura (2009), Desayuno con diadema, (2012), Bikini (2014), Apolo81 (2015), and Stanbrook (2020), with which he has harvested more than 160 awards, as well as the full-length documentaries El hombre que embotelló el sol (2016) and Los que buscamos (2019), premiered at the SEMINCI. In television he has directed the fiction series La Forastera and three seasons of the documentary series Cuineres y cuiners, with chef Ricard Camerena. La receta del equilibrio culminates three years of work together with this prestigious Valencian chef.