People are interested in learning more in depth about our culture. For many years as an immigrant, I’ve felt and I have seen how our culture has been misunderstood, our food has been misunderstood, how our food is changed from the authentic to comply with people’s preferences. What I see now is more authenticity coming into play. And that is a good thing, because I feel like that’s the space that I live and thrive in. And this is the love that I have for my craft, and the love that I want to transfer to humanity about food, culture, the Latin cuisine. And I feel that this unifies us as people.
Is that why you decided to have your mission be through food? Because it’s unifying?
My main mission is to help organizations of all sizes develop a broader understanding and appreciation of Latin cultural nuances, using traditional cuisine and storytelling as a platform. So it’s education, and the unifying piece is part of it, because food brings us together to the table for any kind of conversation. We can talk about anything when we’re talking about food.
Food is so intimate and tactile. How do you convey that through virtual or hybrid events?
That’s an excellent question. I create menus that allow me and allow them to create that space of friendliness, of familiarity. As people are walking in, I am welcoming them with bites, appetizers, with traditional drink pairings, and we start the conversation, we start the mingling, the networking. And then after that, we transition into a presentation, and then the virtual aspect begins. The appetizers and drink pairings already creates a mood locally. For people overseas, they get engaged in getting the energy from looking at the group, and I have a camera on me and a camera on the stovetop, so they get the energy from that. And they get the energy from the storytelling, from the passion — I’m using traditional recipes that connect us.
The lessons expand to other cultures, though.
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