Carlos
Carlos
I’m Carlos. I’m from Venezuela. When I arrived in the United States, I came to New York first before coming to Miami, and I’ve been here for seven months. I started cooking in Ecuador when I was 16. Cooking is a passion for me. It helps you discover yourself and life. It stimulates the hits from life, you learn, and that keeps me going. I wouldn’t be here without cooking. It kept me alive, filling me with the strength to continue forward.
In the future, I dream of opening my restaurant in Venezuela to conquer my people and show them what I have experienced in the United States through a cultural diversity menu.
The craziest thing that’s happened to me in the kitchen is enjoying it. Along the way, you begin to appreciate what once was private to you.
Alejandro
My name is Alejandro.
I’m originally from Cuba. Before coming to the USA, I had a Visa to Mexico, and from there, I crossed the border into the United States.
In the past, my primary place of work used to be butcher shops, although I worked in some restaurants. I learned to work with chicken, pork, beef, and everything at the butcher shops! I loved when they would bring me a whole animal, and I got the chance to do all the cuts. That’s where my passion lies.
I’m currently working at a restaurant, which is a new world for me. But I have the will to work and learn a lot about it. It brings me joy that I get to integrate everything I learned about meats in my previous jobs into this one.
JC
My name is JC, and I’m from Brazil. I’ve been living in the USA for the past four years. I worked in the kitchen for ten years while I was in Brazil.
I studied gastronomy in Brazil and decided to travel to the USA to look for job opportunities and search for new knowledge. I chose Italian food because it’s a bit different than the cuisine I was used to. Back home, I cooked Brazilian, Chinese, and French food. Here, I found an opportunity to learn something new. I like seafood, the rush, the pans, the cooking pots, and most importantly, the friends you make in the kitchen.