100 weeks ago, I felt like was fucked. I had no money, I felt completely alone. Out of necessity, I created a 7 plates discovery menu to make a bit of money. I thought this temporary manual job would at least get me enough money to eat while figuring out a permanent solution. Little did I know what would happen next!

This off the cuffs temporary solution has grown far beyond my wildest dreams. Not only I was profitable within the first month, but within 6 months one of my plates was featured next to culinary legend Heston Blumenthal as "25 dishes to travel around the world for". I got selected out of 40,000 restaurants all over the world, and I had never even worked as a waiter before.

HiR Fine Dining - Jungle Culinary Adventure is now an institution in Costa Rica and last month we did our first pop up fine dining events in Los Angeles and New York. On the 101st week of the restaurant, we announced the launch of my 6th book (and 1st cookbook!) “Accessible Fine Dining - The Art of Creating Exciting Food in Your Everyday Kitchen”.

Most cook book teach you to make carbon copies of chefs’ dishes. To me, that sounds terribly boring. The truth is that I don’t know any of my recipes. I cook every day something different because it’s more fun and more exciting.

If you cook on a regular basis and want to make your food more elegant, intriguing and something people talk about, this book is for you. This book will help you get new ideas and new ways of thinking about ingredients, dishes, meals and your kitchen.