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Food is the foundation to quality family time. Food brings new and old friends together. Food can bring a smile to your face or trigger a special memory from your past. Food can provide you with a way to be adventurous. Food can bring people together. Food allows people to appreciate different cultures and ethnicities. It with this in mind that, I have created Comida Hermosa,, which means Beautiful Food.

My passion for food actually started when I was a young child. I used to sit in my grandmothers kitchen and watch her cook the food her mother used to make. There were no recipes to follow, no notes to read, no pictures look at, she was cooking from memory as she learned to cook by watching her mother cook. That was my first introduction into cooking and I loved every moment of it. I still remember the recipes she taught me. As a matter of fact, I will never forget them. The ingredients, the smell and the taste will always bring me back to that special time i spent with my grandmother.

As I grew up, I was responsible to help my mother in the kitchen, grocery shopping and helping out with family dinners. My dad and I would watch cooking shows on PBS and then try to recreate some of the recipes. I loved to help my parents and there friends with the food when they were entertaining. It was not until my senior year of college, that I decided that I wanted to go to Culinary School, instead of graduate school. I loved to cook and wanted to turn it into my career, so attending Culinary School as well as interning in the baking & pastry kitchen at popular Los Angeles restaurant provided me with a strong foundation to build my catering company on.