Interview Herman den Blijker from Tuesday see in the culinary journey program Herman and Martijn On Trial assumption , never saw himself as a father. Initially, because he had no children, and later because of a painful twist of fate. Son Matz is a miracle, “the famous chef cook. “All the clichés prove true.”
,, I can almost hear the snow falling is so quiet here. ” Dutch famous chef cook Herman den Blijker, sought after months traveling the world with Martijn Krabbé for their new RTL 4 program, the rest in Switzerland. Not just dive in a foreign food culture, not just surrounded by cameras. Time for a trip with ‘girlie’ Jacqueline and 6-year-old son Matz, who he had to miss some time.
,, I look forward to a beautiful valley, so beautiful !, ” says Den Blijker from his holiday address. ,, If I’m on top of the world. ” ,, I sometimes tease him a bit if I should set off work. “Daddy, why are you going away now?” asks the little then. “I will henceforth all day sitting picking you, stroking and bored?” Then he lets it go to me. ”
Fasting Once
Matz is raised, the voice gets fasting Rotterdam (56) suddenly something frivolous. He must personally laugh. ,, And I had nothing with kids! You are only limited by the small fry, I thought. Then you get a child herself and prove all the clichés true. ”
On TV we met Den Blijker as a sometimes gruff and stern looking cook. More striking is when he is in a vulnerable. ,, A second child? Matz is very social, but I would not know as a father how to divide my attention. I’m also afraid that I might find one better than the other “” And then:. ,, You know, I actually could not have children at all. God Impossible, the doctors said. Especially for Jacqueline came that best hard. You’re really going through a kind of process. And suddenly, out of the blue, she is pregnant. What luck, a miracle almost. ”
New Life
known TV Damien among others Noise in the Kitchen and My Restaurant Rules stepped on his 50th a whole new life. ,, I usually cut through bone everywhere. “You do not like me, get out!” Since I’m kind of small animal week. An open nerve. Movies with children I become suddenly woe, or if it ends badly sometimes nauseated. And I’m more careful with people. Superb also to see how my girlie like a proud lioness watching over him. ”
After the birth ,, Matz I dared less likely to take risks, ” continues Den Blijker. However, the enterprise is now once in the blood. Outside are Las Palmas at the Rotterdam Wilhelminakade, the head cook has no large network of restaurants more. ,, I want short-term weather which start in Rotterdam. And something abroad seems like fun ”
Herman and Martijn:. Put to the test came in his own words from a childhood dream. Together with Martijn Krabbé, who produced the program itself, The Blijker visited many cultures, in the farthest corners of the world. Places where people sometimes primitive look for food. ,, In Namibia, an impala species was immediately after the shooting emptied by the hunters. The heart and liver were on a fire roasted and eaten as a trophy. Genius to see! You learn very conscious with nature to go … and that we are a bunch of overfed Europeans. We got our often conscious of what you sometimes thoughtlessly put in your mouth ”
Hobby cook
About his new colleague. ,, Martijn and I had a easy click. Also because he is an avid amateur chef. And what a talent presentation that boy. He slams the liners out there with all the convenience, I sometimes had to make the greatest effort for a nice text. “” We know Den Blijker another side to the new culinary itinerary. ,, You see us literally chiselling bushes in order to continue, or suddenly fall asleep through all the jet lag. Okay, sometimes it took some effort to get to sleep. I am most accustomed to a cockroach. If you’re a big fat tarantula see running, you suddenly lie crying in the fetal position on the ground. Through such an adventure you go conscious life. Delicious, all my senses are open again “”
Herman and Martijn: On Trial argued, Tuesday at 21:30, RTL 4