In this episode, Helen sits down with Daniel Rudolf, a modern-day butler from Germany who has travelled to 51 countries, managed households for billionaires, overseen luxury estates across the world, and now calls Mallorca his home.
Daniel shares how he went from working in Michelin-star kitchens to managing helicopters, private jets, multiple estates and international staff teams — all while holding himself to what he calls “passion for excellence.”
He reveals extraordinary behind-the-scenes stories from his life in elite service, why he never questions unusual requests, and how he built his thriving concierge and household-management business, Exclusive Mallorca. Daniel also opens up about his upcoming book, the first ever written by a modern butler, offering a true insider look into the world of the ultra-wealthy.
Whether you’re fascinated by luxury lifestyles, curious about life in Mallorca, or inspired by people who reinvent themselves, Daniel’s journey is a captivating listen.
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Introduction: Daniel Rudolph from Germany
Hello, my name is Helen Cumins and this is Mallorca Living, a space dedicated to those who are dreaming about making Mallorca their home. Today I’m here with Daniel Rudolph from Germany, who has visited over 50 countries with his work as a modern-day butler. We’re going to talk to Daniel about his journey to Mallorca and establishing his business here on the island.
Daniel, you’re very welcome. Thank you for being here.
Thanks for the pleasure of being here and being invited. It’s an honor.
Thank you. We’ve met a few times at business launches and you are somebody who likes to network on the island. You know a lot of people.
That’s my business. If I wouldn’t know anyone, I couldn’t run my business properly.
What is a modern-day butler?
Exactly. I want to share what your business is because while you run more or less a modern-day concierge service, your background is actually as a butler. I remember the first time I met you and I was absolutely fascinated to meet a modern-day butler because none of us really know that world other than what we know from the movies. So can you tell us what it’s like to be a modern-day butler?
I think currently there are many expressions or names for what I do. It’s household manager, lifestyle manager, butler administrator, modern butler, PA. I haven’t been in school and told my teacher when they asked what I want to be, and for sure I didn’t say I want to be a butler. I started as a chef.
I know. I read this and it’s very interesting. I love your comment that working in a Michelin star restaurant really helped you to understand what excellence is. What is excellence to you?
I think I started in a very basic restaurant. I made chicken and escalope, very simple food in a beer garden. My first really high-end chef job was in London at Mosimann’s. It’s a very famous members club. Twenty years ago, that restaurant was the place to be. Mr. Mosimann taught me passion. His expression was “passion for excellence” and “you never get a second chance for the first impression.” I kept that all my life. He was an impressive man. He was not good enough with 90% or 95%. He always wanted 100% from us. If one dish of six on a table was not perfect, he would send all six back.
So excellence for you is perfection. Is that what you’re saying? Yeah, definitely.
But is perfection not very subjective? Because what I might consider perfect, you might consider something else perfect. So how do you adapt that for your clients?
All my clients have different needs and different expectations, and all expect the best for them. I have clients that have everything in their wardrobe color-sorted, all pants together. I had a client that needed exactly one thumb distance between the hangers, everything hanging perfect, the trousers balanced perfect in the middle, all hangers on the same level.
Wow. And this was your responsibility to make sure this was perfect?
I didn’t have to do it, but I had to check and teach. I wrote a household manual for this household. It was like 230 pages, where the cushion has to be, where the frame has to be, at what angle the frame has to be relative to the entrance.
And did you ever think of sending this poor person to counseling or therapy? Because maybe that’s what they needed, right?
That’s why you have a household manual. If housekeepers or household staff forget how things have to be, they can always look.
I joke because I think if somebody is looking for that kind of perfection, maybe they have a psychological problem.
But that’s your friends at that level. If they see something in their household when they’re invited for a dinner party and they show them around and they say, “Oh, I have it like that,” and they’re impressed. You don’t come up with all this from the beginning when you are wealthy. It’s like you see things, you like them and you want them the same. And then it gets to a certain level.
The most bizarre requests
I’m sure you’re asked all the time, but I have to ask you, what was the most bizarre thing you’ve ever been asked to do or to deliver or to oversee?
There are a few things, but actually I’m writing a book now and it’s done. Congratulations. I spent seven months on it and the agent already has told me I’m not allowed to say anymore or talk about all these things, and the publisher as well. I signed a few papers.
But sometimes I sent a helicopter empty to get certain things. Things that people felt they needed at that moment, a helicopter was sent to get it.
I worked in the Philippines for the owner of a luxury furniture brand. I opened a luxury hotel for the owner. The staff there were very simple people and they didn’t understand why we sent a driver to get certain things from the other side of the island. They said, “The chicken tastes the same. Why would you drive somewhere?” But if a billionaire has a helicopter, you don’t need to drive. I sent them in the morning to get sausage from Austria, sent them to Munich to the butcher on a Sunday morning to get white sausages, fresh from the butcher, and sent them lukewarm with the helicopter for breakfast.
And is there gratitude in all this fun? At the end, does anybody say thank you for all the effort?
It’s the economy. The helicopter pilot has children, he pays his bills.
No, but I suppose my point is when you go to such effort to make sure that somebody’s life is so perfect, is there gratitude or is that just something that you take for granted?
I stopped questioning why would that be necessary around 2011 or 12 when I went to butler school.
I love that. That’s beautiful. Because if you have 10 clients at the same time and they ask me for certain things, and I would think of everything I organized for them, I would go to bed and think why did I do that today? Why is that necessary? I would spend so much lifetime thinking.
So you don’t feel it’s your work to think about it. It’s just to serve. I serve and organize it.
The path to becoming a butler
What has made you this incredible person to serve others? Was it your upbringing? How were you influenced to take this path in life?
I think from when I was already little, I always tried to please my friends, or give to them first before I think of me. I think of others. If I buy a chocolate, I think of giving half away or a quarter away. Does someone else enjoy the chocolate as well and what flavor would they prefer? So I think that was from the beginning.
Then when I worked as a chef, I started to work for a princess as a private chef. They had a luxury yacht in Greece, a home in Switzerland, and a townhouse in New York. At that time, when I worked as a private chef, they gave me more things to do. “Daniel, we are away over the weekend, check the housekeepers, check the gardeners, the pool boy.” So I started having a passion not only for the kitchen but to run a household and organize things and coordinate. Then it got richer and more things to do. Then one day I decided I cannot cook and take my phone out and see the port and drive away. So I decided to go to butler school.
Tell me about this experience because I don’t know anybody who’s been to butler school. Does it still exist?
Certainly. I’m thinking of running my own online butler school already.
When you go to a butler school, it took me like three months to decide which butler school to go to. There are many. In England there are like four or five famous ones. Then in South Africa is the South African Butler Academy. That was my second choice. There’s one in Belgium. That’s the most expensive and the best in the world and the longest.
What duration is it?
Butler school is from 4 to 12 weeks. It’s quite short if you think of what you have to learn.
What is the kind of curriculum that you cover? What subjects do you study?
I chose a modern butler school. I actually wanted to go to the best, but the best is very classic. I’m not that person that likes having a white glove and serving tea time and working on one place. I want to be a traveling butler and accompany my principles. That’s why I chose the British Butler Institute in London.
My head teacher instructor, Gary Williams, he had a hard time with me.
Why? What did you do?
Most people who attend a butler school come from a restaurant or a hotel, or they work as a housekeeper in private homes and they want to step up. All the other attendants in the school hadn’t had that experience that I had before. I had already flown many private jets and helicopters. I’d been to islands around the world. At that time, I’d been already in 20 countries.
So you were quite accustomed to living the higher life.
Sometimes I realized that the teachers in the butler school talk from like they watch a YouTube video or they experienced that. I like aviation. I flew already in many private jets and I knew what the process is to getting in a jet and out, how some jets have two toilets, some have an emergency toilet, some have no toilet. I could already explain how to cope with this situation. In countries and island lives, many times I interrupted and thought, “But that’s not actually true because I’ve been there exactly.”
They kicked me out of the cooking class.
Why?
Because I’m already a chef. There was a teacher in the cooking school. We went to a very famous cooking school one day in those four weeks. I interrupted because I didn’t agree with what the lady cooking teacher explained. I had run kitchens before. At this time, I had 34 employees below me on an island. I worked for a Japanese company on an island in Fiji. There was an executive chef, executive sous chef, and I had like 34 people below me.
There was a cooking teacher that tells certain things. After one hour she said, “You don’t put salt on meat before you serve it. Don’t put salt before you put it in the pan.” I said, “Why would you do that?” She said, “It takes the water out of the meat.” I said, “Meat is 95 to 98% water inside. How much water do you want to take out?” When you put the salt on, the water dissolves. Of course you put salt before because you want to give the meat a taste. Nobody wants meat without salt.
Then the head teacher came from the back to me and said, “I think you take a day off. You know how to cook and I want the others to learn.” So I said okay, that makes sense.
Life after butler school
This is fascinating about butler school, but you were a chef and then you worked as a private chef for this important family and that brought you a lot of experience. Then you took the next step. What happened after butler school? Where in the world did you find yourself?
When one family I worked for before as a chef heard I go to butler school, they said, “We want you as a household manager.” They immediately hired me. It was a family that had six homes, in Ibiza, in London, in Paris, in Dubai, in Frankfurt, and somewhere else, in Austria but I haven’t been there. I was working for them to run all these households. The biggest was in Dubai in Emirates Hills. I spent five months there.
What was your task on a typical day in that role?
Bring the kids to school, arrange with the chef what he has to cook for lunch and dinner. I was the one communicating between the chef and the household. There was security, housemaids, laundry and ironing lady. The cars to manage, sometimes I have to drop cars somewhere for my principles or organize washing, petrol refilling. Check the cleaners, laundry, dry cleaning drop off and pick up, shopping, present shopping. They were invited to a lot of dinner parties. Getting things for the kids for school. Accompany them for playdates or to a concert because their parents didn’t want to go, so I went with them or waited at the exit so someone was always close to them because they were quite young. It’s a lot of things and never ending.
And it’s a 24/7 job, right?
Certainly. My principles, usually I work for Middle Eastern, he was going out until very late and I had to accompany him mostly. He went to shisha bars in London or in New York and had very late dinner. For him, I went to bed between 1 and 3 and he woke up at 9, but I had to organize things before. When traveling with him, it was always short nights, five hours sleep or less.
Usually my clients don’t disturb me in the night. That was very rare. I worked for Russian that sometimes happened when we went out to a club and he said, “I met people. Get the chef out. After partying, I come back at 2. I want soup and lobster.” That sometimes happens. But usually here, my clients, when they call me at 11 or 12 or 1, then that’s an emergency. It’s not a lobster dinner.
Finding Mallorca
I want to know how you arrived in Mallorca. What brought you here?
I worked before for a Swiss family. They had six homes in four countries. In total, I ran 29 staff around, sometimes 27, sometimes 30. Many drivers, housekeepers, laundry, gardeners, whatever you can think of. Between one and three airplanes that changed. When there was something wrong with the steward, then I would go please to the airplane, show them again how to make cappuccino. The table was not set up properly with such expensive cutlery and crockery. They didn’t place it nicely, so training that as well.
Actually the plan in 2015 was that I work one month for them. I always did short-term jobs. I didn’t want to work long-term because if you work a long time, you get annoyed from things. You start questioning, and I didn’t want that. The longest jobs were ever for the princess one year and for the Japanese company in Fiji one year. All the other jobs were temporary. This family hired me actually for one month in Zurich. At the end, I stayed over four years, actually five years.
One of the homes was here in Mallorca?
No, at that time after one year working for them, we started rotation. I worked three months non-stop, seven days a week, and I had one month or two months off. I rented here a holiday rental in the north of the island. So I spent my time off here on the island. After 20 years of traveling, I started thinking, okay, now it’s time to settle down, and I chose Mallorca to be the place to be. For me, it’s the best place in the world.
It’s incredible because you’ve been to over 40…
51 countries. I did research because when I wrote my book, I wanted to have it proved when I say something like that. From emails, Google Maps, whatever, I tracked where I’ve been. 51 countries.
So you really have done the research and you’ve 100% decided Mallorca is the best. You’re somebody who’s really checked the rest of the world out and then said, “Okay, it’s number one.”
Always people ask me why Mallorca and I say, you can do anything here except skiing, and base jumping, bungee jumping, parachuting. That’s not allowed here because of the traffic in the air. And skiing is not possible. But except that, you can do anything. You can get anything in two hours. You can get anywhere in Europe. You have like 179 destinations from here from the airport. Up to 1,200 flights a day. If you decide in the morning you want to go to Zurich, there’s like four or five possibilities. You can get anything here if you know where. People ask me, “Can you organize me that?” When someone comes from somewhere and says you can get that here, you just need to know where.
And the weather. I have a picture in my living room where we were on a yacht in January with bikini and swim shorts. Even last weekend, we’re now in the middle of November, and there were people swimming in the sea. Still 22 degrees the water. We have many sunny days still. It’s absolutely beautiful.
I love the fact that you’ve done so much research, visited so many countries, seen so much, and you’re not seeing the poorer part of the world, you’re seeing the absolute luxury. You’re seeing the best of what the world has to offer, and you still made Mallorca your choice to create a home for yourself.
I’ve been in New York in the duration of 13 years. I’ve been like three years in New York if you get it together in one term. For me, that’s the best city and best place in the world, but not to live. It’s too hectic. I have really crazy job offers to work there permanent. But I didn’t want that because it’s so hectic and intense. Most people who move to New York spend their maximum two or three years and then they go anywhere else in the world. It’s too stressful, too hectic, too intense.
Living a low-key life in Mallorca
How do you equate or balance out this whole super luxury consumerism with more purposeful, conscious living? How do you balance all that in your own mind?
I think in Mallorca, the people who have villas here and live the luxury life are very down to earth. It’s different. They’re very low key. The vibe here is low key. In other places, it’s much more show off, whereas here people like to be under the radar with money.
Isn’t it true? I have billionaire clients that drive a Mini, with regular cars you would never expect them to drive, and they’re happy with that. They don’t want to show off and they don’t want to draw attention to themselves. They have a big fence around their house and they’re living that.
Especially Germans. In Germany, a lot of neighbors, if your house is bigger than theirs, they are jealous. I think people live that here. Their holiday home is much bigger than their home in Germany because here nobody cares. In Germany, a lot of people point with a finger.
You can be quite anonymous here. As long as you don’t draw attention to yourself, you can really enjoy a good life and nobody disturbs you. I like my clients that they do not show off. They are under the radar. I wouldn’t want to work for someone who’s showing off and buying the biggest bottle of champagne at the beach club and always wants to impress people. We do have a little bit of that here, but they’re not my clients.
Establishing Exclusive Mallorca
Tell me about your business that you set up here, Exclusive Mallorca. Obviously there’s a huge market for what you do here.
My first intention to start that business was only doing household management, property management, and helping people organize their home. Then it evolved into more of a concierge service where everyone calls me and asks questions and needs help organizing stuff and finding and booking and arranging. Mostly when people ask me what I do, I say I do anything but I don’t do illegal. It’s easier to explain what I don’t do than what I do. Everything other than the illegal stuff.
Arranging private jets, helicopter flights, that’s mostly when people miss their flight and have an appointment in Italy or the opposite, their flight is canceled and they have a business meeting or some important event. That’s mostly what I do last minute.
Do you have regular clients, the same more or less all the time?
For property management, household management, and my concierge service, I currently have 11 clients. They pay me monthly and then they have access to my service. Then I have two clients that only want me as a backup. They have their own staff and run their own thing, but they want me available on the phone for questions and to recommend and organize things.
The challenge of finding household staff
Is it difficult here to find qualified, experienced household staff?
No, it’s not so difficult, depending on your needs and what you’re willing to pay. I have a huge network of Filipinos here. It’s a big community and we have over 60-70 contacts of cleaning ladies from the Philippines that live here for a long time. Also South Americans, Germans. But nannies are a problem.
Why is it complicated to find good nannies?
I think from social media, it changed a lot in that business. People have access to different work and nobody wants to work as a nanny and work closely with the family, educating children. We have different opinions than the parents. A lot of things in this time come together that make it very difficult to find the right nanny that fits in. Girls with tattoos, they don’t want tattoos and fake fingernails. They want someone looking more like something. It’s difficult this time to find the right person that fits.
I also have this feeling now that people want flexibility. If you’re a nanny, you’re kind of also a bit 24/7. Of course you have a day off and everything, but it is quite a demanding job timewise. The younger generation coming up values their time off, their “no” as the most important thing. As you say, if they have choice of jobs, they’d almost prefer, “I’m happy to clean your house, but I don’t want to be responsible for your kids.”
Yes, exactly. With social media, people want to do different things, being an influencer or doing different jobs than working in a private home.
It is a big problem on the island actually, a global problem now to find good staff for hospitality, which a household is just an extension of. There was a big connection between England and Europe, and now through Brexit it’s very difficult to get staff because you have a lot of nanny schools in England and Ireland. Now it’s difficult to hire them. That’s a big problem. I hired a lot of staff for my principles and clients from the UK and now that’s a big problem for the rest of Europe.
Is there another country fulfilling that need?
Like Norland Nanny. You know Norland Nannies? That’s the most famous nanny school in the world. If you get a Norland nanny, she’s the best trained. I think it’s in Ireland or UK. The training is 6 to 12 months. If you come from Norland, I think the basic salary is three and a half to 4,000 net up. They are well trained and I have a lot of clients that would love to have a Norland nanny, but with Brexit, it’s very difficult.
Building a business and a home from scratch
Are most of your clients not living here permanently? They have a home here but also homes in other countries?
Oh, like 10 to 20% live here permanent. The rest are coming and going all the time.
How long have you been in Mallorca?
I came here in January 2020. My company was set up in March. So you just got in time for the lockdown.
How has the business evolved since you started? For me, obviously I’ve been many years in Mallorca and I’ve seen a huge evolution since the pandemic. The whole world changed. What was your idea before setting up the business and how has it turned out?
First completely different was for me setting up my own home. Since I left Germany, I never had any home myself. I always got provided. The first challenge was for me to buy a coffee machine and a vacuum cleaner. I started from zero.
Where on the island do you live?
I was moving to Palmanova. Now I’m living in San Agustín. I lived for two and a half or three years in Palmanova. That was the first time really in my life setting up my own home.
Then the company. Before I really got my first client, I did for two or three months from January to mid-March, I just met people. I started growing my network before I had my first client. My friend said, “You’re crazy, meeting all these people. What do you want?” I said, “If I get my first client and then he needs something, and I start googling and calling a company I don’t know, I never met, that’s not how I work. I need to know the personality of the people, how they think, if they have anticipation.” That’s why I met them all. I built up my network first and then my first client.
Do you find it challenging to get people, when you’re committed to providing a service, can you always fulfill the wishes?
I did that all my life. Since I’m working as a butler, wherever we went, sometimes I went with my clients to places I’ve never been, and before I started already calling people and finding out. When they stay in a hotel or luxury Airbnb or rented a villa, I did my anticipation. I built up the network before we came there and did research. I can read people easily and I find out if they’re just telling you what they would like to do or if they can really do it. It’s not challenging and the island has a lot of potential and a lot of really good people. You just have to find them because there are also the opposite, people who want to get money and don’t do anything for it. You have to distinguish all the time, but you find a solution always.
What drives you
What drives you? What motivates you?
I have that in me. I want to please people, having good time. I don’t expect thanks. I’m happy if someone is happy, but I don’t do it because I want to hear a big thanks. I just have that inside me. Serving is your thing.
What does the future hold for you?
Keep it as it is. I’m happy with the progress of the business. Sometimes in the press or media, people ask me, “Do you want to be rich like your clients?” And I say actually not. I’m happy how it is. I know all the problems my clients have. If you own things, they own you. As much bigger your home is, as much more people you have to coordinate, many things break. The less freedom you have because you’re pulled down with all these things. I’m happier as it is really.
And you feel that sense of freedom still?
I have a home. I have a car.
But your mobile phone never stops. You are actually quite a slave to your phone, right?
It is, but that’s my business and I’m happy with it. It’s not stress for me that my phone rings non-stop.
I did observe you at the last business lunch. I don’t think you got to enjoy it and be present because your phone never stopped.
But that was a big problem to solve, to find a solution. Mostly I always check what is important and not important. Before I go to bed, I go all the way down on my WhatsApp and check again if I forgot something. They’re mostly like 50, 60, 70 contacts down. My phone rings, it doesn’t mean phone ringing like calls, everything Instagram, WhatsApp, phone, SMS, email. From 200 to 600 times a day.
Oh my gosh. So when do you get to switch off and relax?
Actually never. Sometimes when I go with a boat out, that’s good when I drive boat.
Do you have an assistant that you can hand your phone over to and say, “You take that for today”?
When driving, I mostly forget it. When they’re really important things, then I answer.
Mallorca is a great place to slow down and enjoy life. But I think a lot of people have that intention to come here, but they see also wealthy people, they see the potential here. They meet so many other great people and then they’re doing things together business-wise. I think a lot of people come here to do less, but at the end they do more because they have more possibilities and a better network.
But also life can be a bit boring if you’re just hanging here anyway. Isn’t it true? I’m sure you’ve seen this with some of your clients where they have everything and yet they feel quite unfulfilled or lack purpose.
I think most people have the intention to do nothing, but they do something at the end because they feel also boring. If you all your life run companies and coordinate and organize, then you cannot just switch it off. There’s always you have a family office and things you actually hire people to do the management of your business, but at the end you involve and interact. Very difficult to just do nothing.
The book: a butler behind the scenes
Is there anything that’s still on your wish list to achieve, to see, to experience?
Not much, but my book. Never anyone in the world wrote a book as a butler behind the scenes. I’m very excited. My agent and the publisher did a lot of research and there was really no one in the world. It’s unique.
When will it be published?
In August next year, 2026. The person who helped me, the ghostwriter who helped me to write that book, it was a lot of work. She said we have definitely stuff for two more books. That book is already 286 pages.
What I’m looking forward to is if a producer buys the film rights. That would be like my dream, if it gets a series on Netflix or a documentary or a movie, a Hollywood production company. There’s no modern butler. There’s only The Crown on Netflix, but that’s long time ago. That would be a dream, that they make a film or series based on that book.
Already to have a book published is a massive achievement. I was really lucky being on the right place. In Germany, 94,000 books get published every year. If you go to a publisher with a name like me, I’ve never wrote a book before, nobody knows about me in the book world, in the publishing industry. Publishers have like 10 to 20,000 requests a year and you’re on a stack of requests and mostly nobody answers.
I met someone in the Caribbean that has a ghostwriter. He introduced me to her. She’s very famous and has big connections in that world. She sent it to the agent. The agent told me it takes two to three weeks to answer. The agent answered immediately the next day, “I want to meet him. I want to speak to him.” It was the CEO of the company and it’s a very big company. It was already for me an honor that she called me and not anyone in the company.
She sent it to nine publishers. The publishers all answered the next day. They battled each other who had the highest bid. They paid me a lot of money in advance. I never imagined that. It’s a dream, these book rights. They believe it will be a very successful book, in the top 10 in Germany. People are interested in reading things behind the scenes of a butler, what happens with the rich.
All places are changed. I changed London to New York, countries are mixed up, and nationalities of my clients changed so nobody can be identified. It’s all based on true stories but nobody will recognize who it was. That was very important for me. The first thing when I met the ghostwriter was that.
You probably have signed a lot of non-disclosure agreements.
With the book, I had to sign that not even one word is generated by AI. There were a lot of signatures for that book with the agent and with the publisher.
It’s going to be a big success. I can definitely see it because it’s a fascinating topic, a glimpse into the world of the very, very rich and privileged.
When I started writing the book, I made all my life no notes. I had bullet points, 34 pages word. I had it ready and then I met this person in the Caribbean. It was always going to happen. It was your destiny. I’m not good in grammar and wording, so I would never…
But that doesn’t matter because it’s your story and somebody else is penning it. Fantastic. I’m so excited to read it.
It’s coming out in German initially. Then before it will be published, the publisher put it on the international market where all the publishers around the world have access. They also spoke about China. They said, “1.2 to 2 billion people. In China, a book costs like 3 euros, but imagine 80-90 million in Germany and 1.2 billion and the book is only 3 euros.” The potential is massive.
So you’re going to become the most famous modern butler by the sounds of it. I wish you all the success with your book and continued success with your business. I’m delighted that you chose Mallorca to establish your business because obviously what you bring to the island is a huge addition for people who can choose anywhere in the world to live.
Thank you.
Quickfire questions
Before we go, I always like to ask my quickfire questions. If you don’t mind, tell me which is your preference.
Beach or mountains?
That’s difficult. Both. I like to see both from the water. I like beach, but I love to be on a boat and see the beach from the boat. Beach is not me. I cannot lay down for hours on a sun chair doing nothing. That’s not me. So it would be mountains.
Sunrise or sunset?
Sunset. I think it’s incredible. In September, the sunset is for me the best I’ve seen in the world.
Summer heat or winter calm?
I like the winter here. Winter is more calm. And you still have summer feeling some days. Most days you wake up and you have a blue sky. Vitamin D is the best thing you can have.
Siesta or fiesta?
I’m a very active person, so I don’t do siesta. You like more fiesta.
Pamboli or ensaïmada?
Pamboli, because more fun. People who never had it, explain how it works and why it is.
You know why there’s no salt in the bread? I questioned myself for years. This year in summer, someone told me something and I was thinking why there’s no salt in the bread. I realized I think they put no salt in the bread because it keeps it longer crunchy and fresh. If you put salt in, it takes the humidity and the crust gets chewy. The bread dries out quicker. I think that’s why. I love this ritual now of having pamboli and you put the salt and you decide how much you want yourself.
North coast or south coast?
Southwest coast.
You like southwest obviously as you live in that corner of the island.
North and northwest is very beautiful, but there’s no social life. That’s for during the day or for a sunset or go for a hike. But living is southwest. There is social life in the northwest if you’re a boating person, but it’s more summer. The southwest is a more all-year-round place.
Daniel, thank you so much for being here. Good luck with your book, a very exciting project, and good luck with everything else you’re doing.
Thanks so much. Was a pleasure being here and a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.
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