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Aarón Sánchez (chef)

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For the baseball player, see Aaron Sanchez (baseball).
Aarón Sánchez
BornFebruary 12, 1976 (1976-02-12) (age 48)
El Paso, Texas, United States
EducationJohnson & Wales University
SpouseIfe Sanchez Mora, 2009- 2012 separated
Children[(Sofia Piana)], [(Yuma Sanchez)]
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
  • Centrico
Television show(s)

Aarón Sánchez (born February 12, 1976) is a chef; he is the executive chef and part-owner of the restaurant Centrico, and former owner of the Mexican restaurant Mestizo in Kansas City (Leawood, Ks) (which closed in 2014). He has appeared on Iron Chef America, and is one of the few chefs whose battles have ended in a draw, tying with Masaharu Morimoto in "Battle Black Bass" in Season 2. He was a contestant on The Next Iron Chef, eliminated in the sixth test, "Creativity Under Pressure". He was co-host on the show Heat Seekers with Roger Mooking, and is a recurring guest judge on the show Chopped on Food Network. He has also been featured on Chefs vs. City with Chris Cosentino.

Biography

Aarón and his twin brother Rodrigo, an attorney in New York City, were born in 1976, in El Paso, Texas, three sons of Zarela Martinez, a restaurateur and the author of several cookbooks, and the late Adolfo Sanchez. He began cooking at an early age, helping his mother prepare traditional Mexican foods for her catering business. In 1984, the family moved to New York, and his mother launched the acclaimed Café Marimba, and Sánchez began to cook in a professional kitchen. At age 16, Sánchez was cooking at a level that earned him a place in a Masterclass with chef Paul Prudhomme. In 1994, Sánchez graduated from The Dwight School, and began to work full-time for Prudhomme in New Orleans.[1] Aarón has a son named Yuma and a step daughter Sofia Piana.

Career

In 1996, after working under Prudhomme, Aarón returned north to study culinary arts at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. In 1994, he returned to New York, and worked in the kitchen at Patria under nuevo-Latino chef, Douglas Rodriguez. Sánchez met his future business partner, Alex Garcia while working there.

Garcia left Patria in 1996 to open Erizo Latino, taking Sanchez to help open the restaurant. Reviews were positive, referring to the restaurant as "casual" and "earthy," and "the fare is enticingly wholesome, and the kitchen's best dishes make a fine introduction to the cooking of Central and South America."[2]

Sanchez moved to San Francisco, working under Chef Reed Hearon at Rose Pistola, before returning to New York to be executive chef at L-Ray, which specialized in foods from the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. This was followed by another executive chef position at Isla [2], a restaurant inspired by pre-Revolutionary Cuba.[1]

Eamon Furlong hired Sánchez in 2000, to open Paladar, a pan-Latin restaurant on the Lower East Side. It opened in February, 2001, and won Time Out New York's award for Best New Lower East Side Restaurant that year. It went on to be named the Best Latin American Restaurant in their 2002 Eating and Drinking Guide. Paladar had been reviewed as being "colorful, lively circus of a restaurant that’s equal parts serious cooking and serious partying," and was named a Critic's Pick by New York magazine.[3] Sánchez sold his interest in the Paladar restaurant in 2010.

Television appearances

Bibliography

  • La Comida del Barrio: Latin-American Cooking in the U.S.A., 2003, ISBN 978-0-609-61075-6

References

  1. ^ a b [1]
  2. ^ The Dining in SoHo Is Snug but Worldly
  3. ^ New York Magazine - Paladar - Lower East Side


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