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Our American Dream: From Gardener to Executive Chef

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    Eduardo Perez' rise to Executive Chef at Lupo at the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.

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That loop over and side of the Mandalay bay Los Vegas you'll find fresh to -- its.

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-- does it pizzas fresh out of do we have some of these sweet side of -- -- -- -- and desserts like good -- service.

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They did the -- Frontline is a new customers can come back the Guatemalan born executive -- didn't go to a -- governor's school.

It back.

The age of eighteen his first job after immigrating to the United States was as a Gartner wolf big bucks Chicago restaurant in Hollywood back in 98.

It was better than his previous job in Guatemala that pay for leave.

He would also grow vegetables and big -- A year and a half later he was offered his first cookie which it.

-- was in the event and he -- -- Making -- that's making it says anybody can make it pizza by when he comes to diesel paying.

These -- the and -- -- really is Manning of the real fluid.

I mean there's when you really is -- developing your skills Perez never looked back.

After a brief stint at a Wolfgang Puck restaurant in Malibu California where he learned the purchase excited industry.

He came back to struggle before being promoted this in chef Wolfgang that's kept me and -- -- -- -- it was.

Having to do everything you know run into -- run.

With a battle -- -- -- -- doing and -- -- yet it's hard work didn't go adults or as was promoted to line separates Fargo.

This time in -- Vegas leading to his eventual promotion to executive chef of -- -- Just five years ago.

Now -- nobody can tell me that I can not do anything because.

Who -- him from the bottom up from these wiser to spread the butcher I can basically do anything when he comes to working in their -- -- -- for folks like Perez looking to achieve it fair to injury says more higher in -- company's -- goals.

And we're going to start with a little bit of buyers of the rest still -- -- is -- -- -- the -- -- the Griffin Fox News the team that they.