The story of Santiago Lastra’s unstoppable rise to the heights of hospitality began with a packet of Ritz crackers. After flirting with various ideas of becoming a mathematician, a painter, footballer or basketball player, it was when a fifteen-year-old Lastra happened across the disc-shaped crackers and its recipe for a crab dip that the budding chef had an aha moment and decided there and then, his fate would be written in the Michelin stars.
An RA exhibit details attempts to wipe out Ukrainian culture – and what survived
The parallels between the threat to Ukrainian culture in the 1930s and today are unmistakable.