DCF Central Office Hispanic Heritage Month

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EMBRACING THE FIERCE URGENCY OF NOW! cI love to cook, but what I love most is enjoying a meal with family and friends. My recipes are quick, simple and most off delicioso. d - Ingrid Hoffman DCF Central Office Hispanic Heritage Month INGRID HOFFMAN INGRID HOFFMAN (born September 9, 1965) is a Colom- bian-American television personality and restaurateur, cur- rently hosting the Food Network series Simply Delicioso and the Spanish-language cooking and lifestyle show, Delicioso , on Galavisión.

Her cookbook, Simply Delicioso: A Collec- tion of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist was published in 2008. Ingrid is the daughter of pilot Billy Hoffmann. Born in Bar- ranquilla, Colombia, and raised in Cali, and Curaçao, Neth- erlands Antilles.

Hoffmann began cooking at a young age with her mother, Yolanda Ibarnegaray, a Cordon Bleu- trained chef who worked in restaurants and catering. She also worked in modeling and acting, appearing in 16 telenovelas by age 20. Ingrid moved to Miami in 1985, where she opened La Capricieuse, a high fashion luxury boutique in Miami's Coconut Grove.

After her mother moved to Miami in 1992, Ingrid opened a restaurant with her and two business partners. Rocca, the first res- taurant in Miami to feature tabletop ... more. less.

cooking on heated lava rocks, opened in January 1993 and quickly became a local celebrity hotspot. After hosting a cooking segment on a Miami-area TV show in 2002, Hoffmann was offered a biweekly seg- ment on the Spanish-language morning show Despierta America .<br><br> Her own show, Delicioso , launched on DirecTV Para Todos in 2005 and she was subsequently picked up. The Food Network contacted her the day after her March 2006 appearance on Martha Stewart. Simply Delicioso debuted on the Food Network in July 2007 making Ingrid the first Latina chef on the Network.<br><br> Paving the way for her on-air experience, Ingrid served as a regular decorating and cooking contributor to BuenHogar, the Spanish ver- sion of Good Housekeeping, and published bi-monthly syndicated column in the Rumbo chain of Spanish daily newspapers. {Source: Foodnetwork.com} DAILY FACT September 28, 2009

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