where he garnered attention for his experimentation with traditional South American ingredients and his Latin-fusion cuisine. He moved to Miami in 2001 to take over as the executive chef of Wish ...

“It really just posed the question in my mind, like, how can people not see the difference between what is traditional Latin American food and what to me was clearly American Latino cuisine?

He saw the blooming of an entirely new cuisine based on the borderless, international flavors of traditional South American cooking and came back to Denver with the desire to open one of the first ...