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The Next Big Celebrity Chef? This Former Gang Member
Fifteen years ago, Chef Fernando Ruiz was ready to give up cooking, go home to Phoenix and jump back into the dope game. But his wife, Michelle Romero, wasn't having it. "You can't," she told him. "You know exactly what's going to happen."Img 20190411 110329 886Ruiz with his wife, Michelle Romero.Ruiz spent three and a half years locked up in Arizona for gun and drug charges, earning his GED while incarcerated and going straight to culinary school upon his release in 1997.
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By OZYFifteen years ago, Chef Fernando Ruiz was ready to give up cooking, go home to Phoenix and jump back into the dope game. But his wife, Michelle Romero, wasn't having it. "You can't," she told him. "You know exactly what's going to happen."Img 20190411 110329 886Ruiz with his wife, Michelle Romero.Ruiz spent three and a half years locked up in Arizona for gun and drug charges, earning his GED while incarcerated and going straight to culinary school upon his release in 1997.