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Gabriela Cámara
Mexican chef, restaurant owner, and author / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gabriela Cámara is a Mexican chef, restaurant owner, and author. Born in Chihuahua City, Cámara grew up in Tepoztlán.[1] In 1998, Cámara opened Contramar, a restaurant specializing in seafood, in Mexico City.[2][3] She opened the restaurant Cala in San Francisco in 2015.[4] Cámara holds ownership in Mexico City restaurants Capicúa, Barricuda Diner, and MeroToro.[5] Her cookbook, My Mexico City Kitchen, was published in 2019,[6] the year Cámara was appointed to the Mexican government's Council of Cultural Diplomacy and as an advisor to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.[7]
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Education | Universidad Iberoamericana |
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Cooking style | Mexican |
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Cámara has twice been a James Beard Foundation award semifinalist, in 2017 and 2019.[8][9] In 2019, Cámara, her two restaurants, and their staff members were the subject of a Netflix documentary, A Tale of Two Kitchens.[10] She also has a Masterclass course in which she teaches viewers how to cook Mexican food.[11][12]
Cámara was included in Time's Most Influential People in 2020.[13] Gabriela Cámara became one of the five new Iron Chefs in the American Netflix reboot Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend of the Iron Chef and Iron Chef America cooking shows.
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