Who am I?
I am karime astrid estefan lopez. i named myself as Chef KAEL.
i am proudly from Mexico, and a food enthusiast.
i am a person in love with culture and truism, specially when it comes to food.
i want to know everything there is to know about cooking, food ingredients, cooking techniques around the world.
i been wanting this since i was very little, and when i was in high school after being cooking at home, traveling the world and reading about food. i decided i wanted go to the best culinary school in the world. i researched and decided to study at The Culinary Institute of America.
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here is a little story to let you know how I feel about Food.
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I felt I couldn't breath! Just by the fact I was walking by Grand Central Station! Three feelings and one way to go!
I am eating oysters for the first time in my life. In a restaurant my father has talked about a lot! Back home in Mexico I remember him saying: Karime my darling the Oyster Bar is not a restaurant but an experience I'm taking you to. Then I knew I was going to New York!
I couldn't stop, I just loved them, I loved them so much I made a tower of empty shells, as tall as you could imagine! My dad asked for 3 dozens of that particular sea food that looked like a piece of the bottom of the sea. My brothers ate from them, my mother did too. We spielled Tabasco sauce on the red and white squared table cloth, we, as Mexican natives hot sauce in a plate will always be a perfect twist to any dish!
Then I noticed I blushed! Some light was pointing at me! There were cameras capturing the moment when a 3 year old ate so many oysters, that the tower of empty shells covered the view of her face. If you wanted to see from in front what was happening behind that plate, where apparently there was no one seated, but only the track of an oyster glutton monster that found his way out before the check came after him!
Here I am! With my 3 feelings, melancholy, excitement and fear. Standing on Grand Central Station looking at the entrance of the oyster bar, 19 years old and on my way to Poughkeepsie, as an accepted student at the Culinary Institute of America, with the dream of becoming a chef, remembering the moment I realized food was going to be a part of me for the rest of my life!
By Karime Estefan