hi friends, welcome to my blog, its Me Chef Ava marie Romero and my blog is about sharing recipes, tips, about classes at draegers culinary school, hottest new restaurants, foodie meeting and much much more!
as you may know i was born with Autism, ADHD And PDD and i didnt talk until i was six years old. i am not culinary trained chef, but am a chef at home who is actually a foodie, started cooking at age 13 in 2003 watching emeril and made me wanted to be a sucessful chef teacher someday my dream is to be a chef instructor at draeger's cooking school and a Paraeducator (aide) for special needs learners in the daytime, being autism has taught me everything, from learning how to write and to overcome feelings and tanturms. i learned a lot about cooking from mom, old texas guy jack, terri minor, my aunt laura, chef instructors chef bill hutton, Amy fothergill, Terri dien, kelly fong and much more chef instructors gave me not just recipes, but their inspriation to be a instructor someday. as of september 2011 i am going to work for 1 year from october 2011-2012 at community Gatepath, a vocational job training program for people like me who have autism or other learning disabilites like mental retardation etc. i might be working at a soup kitchen at saint vince de paul and/or working at draegers as a prep cook maybe before becoming a instructor, i am also a camp counselor who works directly with special needs, i used to be a camper as a kid, but didnt like it, so being a counselor is the best job i ever had and it taught me some responsabilies and care for people, i am also working with nurse sandy keefe doing a nutrition-culinary camp which will teach campers how to cook, which is my job to do, phyiscal actitivy lead by julie paulson who is a volunteer counselor and has down syndrome but very smary lady like me and someone new as an instructor and me and sandy will take campers to a couple of field trips such as Fresh choice and We talked about mcdonalds, but i dont think its a good idea, so im going to see if whole foods stevens creek will be a better choice for our campers, so take care and i will share my happiest about food so welcome to the Chef Ava marie Blog
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