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Author
Alex Guarnaschelli | 2020-04-02
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When you're the daughter of an Iron Chef, you don't grow up eating typical kids meals. Thanks to her mom, Alex Guarnaschelli, Ava Clark has been learning to cook and understand food since she was a toddler, and now, at 12, she's searing pork chops, roasting whole fish and steaming artichokes on her own. Her obsession with cooking started at age 3 when she saw her mom making spaghetti and meatballs. “I was like, what the heck is that?” Ava says. Soon she learned how to scramble eggs and slice an avocado, and now she makes dinner a couple of nights a week. “Since I started my first year of middle school, I've been going to different grocery stores in the afternoon to check out all the ingredients,” she says. This steak au poivre was inspired by her grandfather, and the potatoes are a favorite of her mom. “I'm learning from the best,” Ava says.
