User:Cullen328/sandbox/Josefina Howard

Rosa Mexicano was described in 1993 as "one of the few luxury Mexican restaurants in New York", and Howard was credited with bringing the "real elegance of Mexican food - its refined international flavor" to New York.

Howard was also a photographer, who had an exhibition of her work at the Mexican Cultural Institute in New York in 1996.

In 1996, Howard opened a Spanish restaurant called Domingo at Turtle Bay in New York, in partnership with Placido Domingo.

She grwew up in Asturias, Spain. Both of her parents were killed during the Spanish Civil War.

Her first New York restaurant was called "La Fogata", and then she became executive chef at "Cinco de Mayo" in New York in 1983.