From Deported Migrant to Michelin Star: the Rise of Mexican Chef Lalo garcía - Latino-News - the Hispanic Newspaper
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August 19, 2025 – Mexico City – EFE. At the age of 16, Eduardo ‘Lalo’ García, a Mexican chef born in Guanajuato, began his working life washing dishes at a restaurant in Atlanta, United States. At that time he did not know that this work would mark the beginning of a career that would lead him to become one of Mexico’s most acclaimed chefs and to win a Michelin star with his restaurant, Maximo. García admitted in an interview with the EFE agency…
Mexico City, 19 Aug (EFE).- When Mexican chef Eduardo 'Lalo' García (Guanajuato, 1977) began working as a dishwasher in Atlanta, United States, at the age of 16, he never imagined that that would be the beginning of a career that would lead him to become one of the most recognized cooks in Mexico and get a Michelin star with his Maximo restaurant. “I didn’t go into work in the kitchen because I thought the stars existed. I got in out of need, th…
The cook is convinced that the Mexican dream does exist
The first expulsion of Mexican Eduardo 'Lalo' García from the United States was in 2000, and the second in 2007, when he decided best to reside in Mexico.
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