Chef Salgado, Culinary Life and History
Chef Salgado, Culinary Life and History I was born in San Cristóbal, Venezuela in December 1980, a nation with great European culinary influence due to immigration after World War II. In 2007 I graduated with a Bachelor in Political Science, thanks to this degree I had a job for a few months at the Venezuelan Embassy to the Vatican, Rome, Italy. This experience, living in the heart of the Mediterranean, led me to make the decision to study cooking. In 2010 I finished my gastronomic studies at the Zi Teresa Institute of Gastronomy, an Italo-Venezuelan House of Studies dedicated to training Chefs with skills and techniques of classic Mediterranean (Italy, France, Spain) and avant-garde cuisine. In the following years I had a Latin-Mediterranean fusion restaurant in my hometown, and several presentations on local television shows, but in 2013 I emigrated to the USA, Miami, Florida, where I began to absorb the infinity of gastronomy in this International City. In 2013 I sta...