Santi Santamaría, Catalan Chef, Dies at 53

[lsanderson]

By RAPHAEL MINDER
Published: February 19, 2011

MADRID — Santi Santamaría, a chef and restaurant owner who helped raise the international profile of Spanish cuisine but invited controversy by criticizing avant-garde chefs and their techniques, including the use of chemical emulsifiers, died on Wednesday in Singapore. He was 53. More