On the third day of “The Perfect Dinner” in Mallorca, Farina suddenly takes over the cooking because Frits unfortunately has an emergency and has to go to the hospital.
Farina’s tension is obvious, while the 43-year-old’s dream is coming true: “She’s the ‘perfect dinner fangirl’,” reports Julia (41). “A real fanboy,” adds Giorgio (37). “She’s watched all 20,000 episodes of The Perfect Dinner.” “The format is really part of my life,” confirms Farina herself. “I also like the exchange and the social aspect behind it.”
Frits is taken to the hospital by emergency services
The fact that the owner of a boat and yacht rental company unexpectedly cooked on day 3 was actually due to an incident in the group. While he was still in a good mood with Julia on day 2 and, as a Dutchman, was responsible for casual lowland humor, Frits (63) was taken to the hospital by the emergency services shortly afterwards.
The rest of the group doesn’t know exactly what happened to him – but fortunately he survived the worst of it. And so Farina can confidently announce the menu, consisting of her favorite dishes, at her “home port” Port Adriano (“It was built by the designer Philippe Starck, do you know him?”). Motto: It doesn’t seem Spanish to me at all. Starter: Ensalada mediterránea, Main course: Bol asiático, Dessert: “Schmarrn” de emperador.
Frits joins “The Perfect Dinner” via video call: “I was very lucky”
However, as it turns out in Farina’s beautiful house with a pool near “her harbor”, the situation was quite serious: “I was very lucky. An hour later and it would have been the last supper!” Frits says via video call. However, he will “get completely healthy.” It’s not just Julia who has to collect herself: “I’m an extremely emotional person. I had goosebumps all over my body.”
There is a new candidate at the table for Frits: Elisa is a food blogger and influencer. She is rather critical of the culinary basis of her adopted homeland: “I hate Mallorcan bread, it tastes like fart.” – “The cooking that I enjoy doesn’t actually happen in front of the camera,” says the 37-year-old, putting the fulfillment in her job into perspective.
However, she cheerfully shakes up the already tight-knit group of emigrants. As a vegetarian, she eats neither fish nor meat: “Please don’t fuss about me – but please don’t just eat a block of tofu either!” Elisa goes straight for Farina’s main course – vegetable chickpea curry with rice and shrimps: “I’m missing a bit of the ‘wow’ – just the ‘bam’.
Farina didn’t actually want to emigrate
But Farina is not the wife of the big “Bäm”. She says rather cautiously that love and the desire for a career change took her from the Rhineland via Switzerland to Mallorca. “I never planned to go here, but then I immediately fell in love,” says the mother of one son.
Her main course is accompanied by a Mediterranean salad with rocket, figs, gratinated goat cheese and Serrano ham, which is replaced with raspberries for Elisa. For dessert, a ski hut classic: Kaiserschmarrn! Julia and Angie (27) particularly praise the frozen margarita as an aperitif (“It rang a bell”) – but the hostess “could have been more confident” when it came to the food.
Nevertheless, there are 31 points for the delicate Farina, who describes her condition while cooking with a sentence that can also apply to Frits and actually the whole of life: “Somewhere between panic and ‘It’s okay.'”