“1999. In 2000, I went from Chile to Barcelona to do a PhD, and that was when I first came to the Basque Country. I walked into San Sebastian, saw the mountains, rained, all green, all farmed… I asked my father what the country was like when I was little, and he said to me: ‘White houses weave red’. I went to see her and recognized what my father had told me. It was as if he had said it himself! And it was the food here, and the taste I felt inside!”