About Lorena Garcia

Lorena Garcia was born in Venezuela and is a graduate of the world-renowned Johnson & Wales University Culinary Arts School. She has trained in top restaurants in such locations as Paris, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and China. Upon returning, Garcia launched two succesful ventures, Food Café and later Elements Tierra Restaurant in the Miami Design District, restaurants which she later sold to pursue other projects. Garcia's media background includes having hosted a weekly national cooking show on Univision Radio, hosting regular cooking segments on both the Univision and Telemundo television networks, and more recently, a cooking show on the international network, Utilisima. Her personal style and approach to cooking have landed her on the pages of Cosmopolitan, Vogue, Kiplinger's and Entrepreneur among other top lifestyle publications. Garcia's "Big Chef Little Chef" program has been reported on by hundreds of media outlets across the United States and Latin America. The educational program allows Garcia to work with school aged children and their parents to provide information about nutrition and how to cook and eat properly.