Gregorio Pernía competes in Telemundo’s most famous kitchen, Top Chef VIP – Photo: courtesy / Telemundo.
Colombian actor Gregorio Pernía enjoys the “Top Chef VIP” contest because it ensures that the kitchen reveals a person’s personality. “Through the kitchen, you get to know human beings a lot. What you eat, what you present, and what you have in your head comes out, and one’s zip code comes out in the food. I find it interesting and beautiful,” says the Colombian actor in an interview with Mezcaliente.
Gregorio shares the keys to his personality in his way of cooking.
Good host:
“I am from a popular family where you must be a good host, so I love seeing people smile.”
Generous:
“And mine is abundance. I don’t prepare an arepa; I prepare ten arepas and want everyone to eat.”
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Simplicity:
“I love pasta, I think that pasta also defines me in many things, a simple pasta, with butter, parsley, salt, and garlic.”
Family:
“Through the food in the dining room we talked with Luna, with Valentino, we told each other about the synthesis projects.”
Feed your relationship:
“I cook for my wife, she eats tasty with me: pasta, soups, and I’m the dessert, hahaha!”.
Always with a smile:
“I think the energy is important, the love put into it, the attitude, which is also key. I tell my wife that 70 percent of you should be a good smile and a good attitude. I believe many things are achieved with this, which is also important in the kitchen”.
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Without losing patience:
“I won a competition (from Top Chef) with a sancocho, and the sancocho reminds me of a time when we used to go to the river with my mom and my dad. We would go in a truck, a flat truck, and there we would put a mat, and we would go sleeping on the mat, and we would prepare the sancocho with the water from the river, and we would all get together to peel a potato, yucca, plantain, to organize a chicken on top of the stones”.
He continued: “There was a family union, so one brings out what its essence is. I believe that the human being who loses his essence loses everything”.