This month, the 31-year-old caterer, cookbook writer, and creator of the “Cooking With Chris” YouTube channel will make his tv host debut with a brand new Latin-inspired cooking present that faucets into his Cuban roots.
Being a finalist on Food Network Star and Star Salvation launched Valdes to a nationwide viewers. Following his stint on Food Network, he appeared on varied nationwide tv exhibits, and is a frequent visitor on Live with Kelly and Ryan together with stints on Food Network’s Chopped and the Sherri Shepherd Show.
Beginning this month, Valdes will seem as each host and decide alongside Mexican-born chef Marcela Valladolid on ¡Que Delicioso!, a seven-episode Spanish language authentic collection. The competitors cooking present streams totally free on the Roku Channel.
During every episode, an internationally acclaimed chef from Latin America presents a dish that represents their tradition and heritage. From there, two extra cooks go head-to-head as they try to recreate — whereas additionally reinvent — the dish, tapping into their very own cultural backgrounds to offer it a singular twist.
At the top, the internet hosting cooks and Valdes and Valladolid determine which prepare dinner offered the most effective fusion — and who will take residence the $10,000 prize.
Valdes tells New Times the present is an ideal method to have a good time his personal Cuban roots alongside others. It’s additionally what makes it an ideal present for Miami-based followers, lots of whom share within the diaspora of Latin cultures that make up the Magic City.
“What I like essentially the most about this present is that it is all about celebration,” sums up Valdes. “For Latinos, meals is at all times a celebration of custom and household. I did not know these contestants earlier than the present, however I obtained to know them by their tales. Like me, so lots of them have been rooted in childhood, and what higher method to inform their Hispanic-inspired tales than on ¡Que Delicioso!?”