As many of you know, one of my biggest passions in life is cooking!

I can’t quite remember when my love for cooking started, but I’ll tell you this.... it goes waaaaay back. 

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Every time we went on a family trip, I used to buy cake pans and cook books

( i mean... what kind of a child was I?!). I can still remember my Mom being mad at me because they didn’t fit inside my suitcase and they weighed like 100kg. But still I kept doing it every time. 

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It was so obvious that when the day to choose a career arrived, I would say “Chef".

 

And so time passed and I continued cooking, baking, buying cake pans and cook books (yes, by the time I was 14 I had all the kitchen stuff you can imagine). I loved baking birthday cakes for my family and friends and I felt so proud of myself by doing it.

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Finally, the day arrived when I had to choose what path I was taking and the truth was: I wasn’t sure. 

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Yes, I loved to cook and I was good at it, but, did I really have what it takes? Was I was willing to commit my entire life to food?

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By that time I had already searched and researched all of the Cooking schools you can imagine. I decided to send my application to Ferrandi Paris because they had a one year  Intensive Professional Program in Cuisine and Pastry. And guess what?! About 2 months later I received my acceptance letter!. And it really felt like I had just won the lottery! 

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Long story short, I moved to Paris for a year to see If I really had what it takes. 

I met some really amazing people from all over the world from whom I learned a lot about life and of course food. 

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I successfully passed all my Cuisine exams and after that I had the opportunity to work at “La Grande Cascade” (which has 1 étoile MICHELIN). 

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Once I worked there I met an amazing woman who I really look up to who besides from being an amazing chef is a really cool and amazing human being . Her name is Beatriz González,she is from Cozumel and studied her cooking career in Lyon. In conclusion she now owns 3 of the best restaurants in Paris!(Neva Cuisine, Coretta and Le Rive Droite).   

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I studied cuisine intensively that year, but when I came back to Mexico I decided to do something else. Not because I didn’t love to cook but because I felt like I had to learn some other things.

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In 2013 my dad was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer and one of his doctors told him that he had to change his lifestyle and have a plant based diet. A plant based what?! Yes, no meat, no dairy. 

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So I started to bake and cook things for him that didn’t contain any animal origin products to help improve his health. So that’s when I got really interested in having a healthy lifestyle (who isn’t these days right?) and later, people started to relate me with healthy vegan deserts, and that’s how “Goji vegan” was born. 

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A few years passed, I got married, finished my career, had my babies and not a day passes when I don’t think about how happy and blessed I feel to have lived all that I lived because it has all made me the person I am today. 

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During both of my pregnancies I used to cook some days till 3 a.m because I just couldn’t sleep. I do it when I’m nervous, when I’m stressed, when I need to clear my head. It is simply a part of me, like a need. I don’t know why but somehow life always brings me back to... The kitchen.