Valentine's Day Recipes: Chef Kelvin's Quick And Easy Recipe Tips For Couples!

Kelvin Fernandez of Dominican decent, was born and raised in Harlem, NYC. At an early age, Kelvin grew an interest in cooking from watching his father who is also chef prepare meals at home, but at the time his father wanted him to enjoy his child hood and possibly choose another career path because he understood how tough this industry was. Eventually, he moved to Queens and attended Long Island City High School where he fell in love with his then girlfriend, now best friend Maria Patino who loved to cook. Kelvin at the time was mostly into sports but wanted to spend more with her so he began cooking a lot more. He credits his career to her.

During his junior year of high school, he began taking cooking classes and eventually began competing against other students for scholarships in which he excelled greatly in. The first competition he won was a trip to France which pushed him to continue competing which he later won a $40,000 scholarship to the Culinary Institute of America. Kelvin then realized that this wasn’t just a hobby but something he could make a career out of. As Kelvin’s career progressed, he moved through the ranks pretty quickly by setting goals for his self and taking actions on each of them. He made a goal to become an executive chef at the age of 25 and gained the position three years earlier at 22 at Antipasti in White Plains, NY where they made him the youngest executive chef in New York. Chef Kelvin, has worked in many properties and been seen on Television many times on the Food Network. He works with the NBA Fit program and this year kicked off the year coming out on Forbes. Latin Times interviewed Chef Kelvin and he also provided three easy and quick fun things to make for your loved one this Valentine’s Day.