Karlos Arguiñano and His Childhood: "My Mother Was Disabled by Polio and I Was the Eldest of Four Siblings"

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Karlos Arguiñano has recalled a childhood marked by family responsibilities long before he became one of the best-known chefs in Spain. He was the eldest of four siblings and his mother had significant mobility difficulties as a result of polio. That situation meant that from a very young age he took on household chores that for other children might have been secondary, but were essential in his home. "My mother was paralyzed from polio," he exp…