5/7/2012 - TheNewPotato.com
When it comes to Latin cuisine, Aaron Sanchez is king. Executive Chef and co-owner of New York City’s Centrico and Kansas City’s Mestizo, Sanchez makes authentic Latin flavors accessible – a feat infamously hard to accomplish. Spicing up the scene on hit Food Network shows like Chopped and Heat Seekers, Sanchez graces America with a simpatico demeanor and an elevated yet simplistic take on Latin cuisine. There are too many reasons why so many have fallen in love with this innovative chef; The New Potato now brings you a few more…
4/23/2012 - Food 4 Less
I grew up in a kitchen. My mother and grandmother are both talented chefs who were pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country. So I developed a passion for cooking at a very young age. Although it wasn’t until I went to work for Chef Paul Prudhomme in New Orleans that I realized cooking is what I wanted to do for a living.
4/10/2012 - Denver Post
Aarón Sanchez grew up in the food business. At 36, he’s already been on the Food Network for 10 years. Before that, he learned his way around the kitchen with his mother, Zarela Martinez, who ran a catering business in El Paso, Texas, before moving to New York and opening the popular (but closed in 2011) Zarela in 1987. But enough about Mama.
4/9/2012 - Footwear News
Celebrity chef Aarón Sanchez has a lot cooking these days. In addition to appearing on such shows as Food Network’s “Heat Seekers,” authoring his second cookbook, “Simple Food: Big Flavor,” and running a trio of restaurants in New York and Leawood, Kan., he has also lent his name to a collection of kitchen-friendly footwear from duty brand Mozo, a division of Deckers Outdoor Corp.
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4/2012 - 435 South Magazine
In his second book, Simple Food, Big Flavor, Unforgettable Mexican-Inspired Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours, renowned chef Aarón Sánchez offers 15 sauce, puree, and paste recipes that are anything but basic. He then creates more than 50 delicious dishes featuring these recipes. Full-page color photos stimulate taste buds and stomachs.
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3/22/2012 - Eater.com
Flo Fab reports that Delta plans to open a slew of restaurants from some of the city’s hottest chefs in the recently acquired Terminal C at Laguardia.
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2/27/2012 - Haute Living
During a whirlwind weekend in Miami known as the South Beach Wine and Food Festival, esteemed chef and author Aaron Sanchez opens up to Haute Living about the culinary world, his newest endeavors and how Miami’s take on food has evolved.
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2/2012 - 435 South Magazine
I heard a rumor that a ‘celebrity’ chef was going to open a restaurant in Leawood some months back.
Sure enough, one evening I got a call to switch on the Food Network’s popular show, “Chopped,” to watch Chef Aarón Sánchez… And so it’s come to pass—Mestizo, or a mélange of cultures representing Mexican natives and Spanish and Latin American influences—has opened.
1/31/2012 - PB Pulse, The Palm Beach Post
Aarón Sánchez, chef, restaurateur, author, Food Network star and human heat-seeking missile, knows his pozole. He can go on about the qualities of the long-simmering stew, how it finds its richness in pork and hominy, chief and Mexican oregano, the kind that grew wild in his family’s ranch in northern Mexico. Pozole is soul food.
1/23/2012 - Good Morning America, ABC
Chef Aaron Sanchez and his Heat Seekers partner Roger Mooking face off with ABC’s Good Morning America anchors Josh Elliott and Sam Champion in a spicy food showdown.



