User:Lrodilg

Luis Rodil (born Guatemala March 4th,1983) is a Guatemalan cook.

Rodil started Cooking at a very young age in his mother's kitchen. He spent most of his sunday mornings watching his grandmother cook their weekly family lunch. He took some cooking lessons from his cousin a Suize graduated chef and owner of Guatemalan 5 star restaurant Camille.

In 2007 he decided to sabbath for a year to Israel (Not particular for a Catholic, but he saw an oportunity to learn different types of cooking). In this time he worked at Kibbutz Yahel in the Jordan Valley (Negev Desert) near Eilat for 1 month doing maintenance and had close relationship with the kitchen staff, then he moved to Kibbutz Ein Gev near the city of Tiberias located in the Sea of Galilee where he worked in a kitchen that served up to 800 people daily, here he got some experience on heavy mass cooking.

After a couple of months decided to move to Tel Aviv, getting small jobs in construction and as a security guard until finally he got a job as a dish washer in one of Tel Aviv's most popular wine bars HaBasta which is a 15 table Tapas bar like restaurant which is located one block away from Tel Avi's famous Carmel Market and its frequented by many of Tel Avi's welthiest and even a couple of movie stars, after a couple of weeks the owner and chef saw he might have some potential in the kitchen, this by his constant nosing around their work, and decided to give him a chance as a cook, after a month he was promoted to sous-chef. He worked here for 5 months and in this time traveled all over Israel just experimenting the different types of food that a country with that many mixed cultures has to offer, after these 5 months he decided it was time to move on and traveled to Paris to meet his wife (he has been with her since 2004), there he lived fot 3 months in the 5e arrondissement of Paris, near the famous Rue Mouffetard which houses most of the restaurants in the area for 3 months they traveled by foot around every arrondissements in Paris, here he got a taste of Real french cooking (the type of cooking he grew up with) he also got a chance to visit Barcelona where he got a taste of catalan cooking.

Rodil is married to Irene Chavez, a well known guatemalan, ambienlatist, environmentalist and sustainable community development consultant, she has worked for a variety of NGO's such as Rainforest Alliance, WWF , National Geographic , Counterpart International , The Nature Conservancy , USAID and many more.

His wife has been the inspiration for him seeking more organic ingredients for his dishes. His goal is opening a Restaurant fusing mediterranean and french cuisine.