As I take a deep breath, I look back into my memories. It has been overwelming so far and I can’t stop being amazed by so many things. Living with a passion for something makes it nice, doing what you love to do makes it even better. The food we eat becomes our spirit. Memories with taste. Food can make life really smooth.
This was today’s lunch, grouper stuffed with sauteed chard and confit lime, surrounded by bellota ham and armagnac deglasage.
I want this year to be the year for food, for everybody, for the poor and for those who are hungry, for the children. I want this year to be full of sharing and hope, full of smiles and creation, full of meanings and curiosity, full of love, full of life.
Rodrigo Pacheco is a top-notch Ecuadorian chef who bases half his time in Quito and the other half in Banos, where he prepares meals made from fresh organic ingredients at Casa del Abuelo Art Hotel & Restaurant. He is also the executive chef at Cuisine Standard in Quito.
He has studied with some of the best, including Madrid Fusión in Spain, Alain Ducasse Formation in Paris, the Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, France, and the Instituto Inacap in Santiago, Chile among others.
He has done a Government Cultural Exchange in Canada and the Masters of Food and Wine tour of the world in Buenos Aires, Argentina,
representing Ecuador as an invited chef. Rodrigo was also a Culinary radio show host on Saberes y Sabores.
