Lorena Garcia Biography

Venezuelan-born restaurateur, TV personality, and published author Lorena Garcia is currently one of the country's leading chefs, well known for numerous TV appearances, a successful chain of restaurants, a cookbook, and as the highly recognizable face of Taco Bell's "Cantina Bell" menu. On the heels of the success of her first cookbook, Lorena Garcia's New Latin Classics, Garcia has taken her love of cooking to the next level by creating the Lorena Bella Kitchen Collection for HSN, which debuted in 2013.

Garcia first embraced a love of food as a child, most bountifully at family gatherings while growing up in Caracas, Venezuela. Garcia originally planned to be a lawyer, finishing her associate degree and paralegal studies while learning English, but she soon realized her heart was not in it. Garcia left the legal world behind her and enrolled at Johnson & Wales University, graduating with a degree in culinary arts. With a world of choices ahead, she set out on a tour of countries known for great cuisine. In Paris she took her first job as an apprentice at the Ritz-Carlton, subsequently working her way through Italy, Japan, Korea, Thailand, and China. Returning to the United States, she spent three years under acclaimed chef Pascal Oudin at the Grand Bay Hotel. She continued to hone her chops, and helped prepare a few, doing time at Jeffery Chodorow's China Grill and Red Square.

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