Home cook Vincent Rodriguez, Hesperia, California

Vincent Rodriguez is a 14-year-old home cook and caterer from the high desert of Hesperia, California. I learned about him through my friend and his aunt, Alli Wallace, who said he is a crazy talented cook, that his parents give him an ingredient allowance every week, that he could talk my ear off about how to cook a roast. I decided I had to meet Vincent, so he and his mom Tasha drove up from Hesperia just to talk with me on the CONSUMED podcast. This is a slightly shorter episode because I felt a little like I was torturing Vincent with my many questions, but you’ll be impressed by how much this young man knows, particularly about meat.

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