[2] Her father is Juan Mari Arzak, who initially worked under his mother at the restaurant, but went on to become head chef himself.

[3] Her father sent her abroad to train at other restaurants after she attended hotel school in Lucerne in Switzerland.

[5][6] She also trained at La Maison Troisgros, Le Louis XV under Alain Ducasse, Restaurant Pierre Gagnaire and returned to Spain when she worked at elBulli.

As well as conducting a cooking demonstration, she officially opened the show alongside Rachel Quigley.

[6] In June 2020, she and other chefs, as well as architects, Nobel laureates in Economics and leaders of international organizations, signed the appeal in favour of the purple economy (“Towards a cultural renaissance of the economy”), published in Corriere della Sera,[9] El País[10] and Le Monde.