🌍 How Your Background Shapes Your Cooking
Where you grow up and where you travel can completely change the way you create.
Chef Danny's journey shaped his cooking:
- Venezuela gave him tropical ingredients and ancient techniques like fermentation
- Spain and France taught him discipline, hard work, and kitchen organization
- Germany, Japan, and New York each added something new
Instead of labeling his food as fusion, he focuses on ingredients that work well together, no matter where they come from.
New York is perfect for this because it is a melting pot of cultures, with Ethiopian, Korean, Japanese, and countless other cuisines all in one city.
Being open to learning from different cultures makes you a richer, more creative person, in any field.
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