- Super important to clean as you go when you cook, or else, you run out of space.

(gentle music) - We've learned the hard way that the salt container needs to not live next to the coffee.

- You don't want, no, I put salt in the coffee one morning.

It was the worst thing ever, guys.

- Oh, that's so funny.

(gentle music) (gentle music continues) - I like to cook everything that my mom used to cook, because it just feels like home, you know?

I'm always a little bit homesick.

And then the food, it's a way to connect with home.

We got lots of seafood over there, so it's a seafood paella, it's like a rice seafood with a sofrito and, but I also do croquetas, gazpacho, and I don't know, many other things.

I just sharpened my knives before doing this, guys.

So careful.

(gentle music) So my name is David Sendros Dib.

I grew up in Barcelona.

I had a great childhood, not traveling much at the time.

I had no idea then that I would end up living in the United States.

(gentle music) I am Spanish, but I'm also Catalan.

Catalonia is the region that is on the northeast Mediterranean corner of Spain.

We have our language and culture and different food and all that.

And I embrace both my Catalan heritage and Spanish heritage.

Some people might have conflicts with that.

I choose not to have any conflict.

I feel part of both.

And I think it makes you rich, having more than one culture.

(gentle music) I like to call myself a love immigrant, because I move here because of love.

We met dancing.

- The short story, yes.

So I lived in Barcelona for two years because I was doing a Master's degree.

And while I lived there, I made friends.

And we had mutual friends.

So our friends introduced us to each other at a concert.

So yes, we did meet dancing, but it turned out, - But we did not get together until years later.

- Yeah.

- But that's how we met.

- Exactly, we became friends.

- Yeah.

- For a while, and, - Are we still friends?

- Are we still friends?

- I don't know.

- Yes, we're still friends.

♪ I'm on my way ♪ ♪ I'm on my way ♪ We started playing some music together very early on.

And so I think playing music together and singing together and enjoying music or dancing together, has always been a big part of who we are together as a couple or as a family.

(cello music) ♪ They say that home is ♪ wherever your heart is ♪ - I think that's awesome that we can play music together, my wife and I.

She plays the ukelele and the cello and guitar and so much fun to play with her.

♪ Enjoy the ride ♪ that we are alive ♪ I was fascinated by the Beatles growing up.

So thanks to the Beatles, I learned a lot of English.

I started to play guitar, thanks to them.

Writing music, maybe it was when in my teens, like maybe like 15, 16, maybe my first song.

(guitar music) (singing in Spanish) One of the music styles that I like more about Spain, it's called rumba.

It's close to flamenco, but it's not flamenco.

It has more life, it's more strumming.

And so I decided to try to make a song on that style.

And that's a song called, (speaking Spanish) You could translate it like, "Some say out there," or, "I heard out there."

And that's a song to motivate you to enjoy life, to be out there, to not be shy, to be present.

(singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) - And it's pretty well shaped, but I'm gonna try to just, - It's a good size.

- Yeah.

And just compact this and pat it here with love.

We often do cook and share cooking together.

Definitely need our wine in hand for cooking Spanish food.

- Oh, you do need the wine.

- Spanish food, Spanish wine.

- So, Hannah, can I ask you a favor?

Could you please get the stickers off the tomatoes and wash the tomatoes and, - Ooh, you betcha!

- One of the things that reactivated my already passion for cooking, it's actually the fact that there's not many restaurants here to go, right?

So you really have to cook if you want to eat well.

So it's work, but I'm enjoying it.

(singing in Spanish) (singing in Spanish) Perfect.

- Mmm.

- Every time I go home, I come back with two suitcases full of the products that I can't find here.

We love our olive oil, our wines.

- Okay.

- All right.

(bell chiming) Hey, how's it going?

- [Off-Screen Voice] I liked that wine.

- When we moved to Madison and went to the liquor store, the wine selection was poor.

But I befriended the people working there and they came up with the list of the wines and they just asked us to pick a few wines that we thought could work.

And they were so nice that they brought all the wines that we chose and now they're there for everybody and they're selling them, not only to us.

(gentle music) - What do I love about David?

So many things.

I think it's extremely brave that he was willing to go all in on our love.

Not a lot of people would do what we chose to do with being willing to take a huge risk of dealing with immigration and figuring out how to see a future and walk towards that together.

- The fish.

The fish.

It's been eight years that I lived here and I got to explore the country, meet amazing people.

There's amazing people everywhere in the world.

That's something that, sometimes people like to put labels, these people, that there's good people and bad people everywhere.

(gentle music) One of the things that being an immigrant gives you is understanding the world from different perspectives.

And then you get to, you change a little bit, because kind of dis-attach a little bit from what's going on over there, what's going on over here, you get perspective.

Perfect, and I think this one we can do probably four parts.

- Yeah, probably.

- So you wanna hold this end?

- I don't think I'll start touring or anything like that.

Or going to a, like a chef school, or anything like that.

I use them every day, but the journey, so far, it's just to share it with friends, people, my wife, myself.

I still work on it and keep enjoying it.

♪ Across the cloud ♪ - In Catalan, to say I love you, the phrase is t'estimo.

It's T apostrophe, E-S-T-I-M-O.

Pronounced t'estimo.

I esteem you.

But it means I love you.

Like a romantic love, or like a family love, like a deep love for somebody that you have, you would say t'estimo.

♪ And if you try to ♪ catch me around ♪ ♪ I know you won't find me ♪ ♪ 'Cause there's always ♪ something beautiful ♪ ♪ Across the sky I'm on my way ♪ (upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) - [Narrator] "Postcards" is made possible by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota.

Additional support provided by Margaret A. Cargill Philanthropies.

Mark and Margaret Yackel-Juleen, on behalf of Shalom Hill Farms, a retreat and conference center in a prairie setting near Windom, Minnesota.

On the web at shalomhillfarm.org.

Alexandria, Minnesota, a year-round destination with hundreds of lakes, trails and attractions for memorable vacations and events.

More information at explorealex.com.

The Lake Region Arts Council's arts calendar, an arts and cultural heritage funded digital calendar showcasing upcoming art events and opportunities for artists in West Central Minnesota.

On the web at lrac4calendar.org.

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