Travel has played an important role in shaping Chef Arden Lewis’s culinary philosophy. From the floating markets of Bangkok, to preparing dinner with a family in Morocco, to learning traditional cooking in Tokyo, the chef enjoys this strong relationship between culture and food. With a distinguished career in the kitchen, he is now Executive Chef of the Comal Heritage Food Incubator, a restaurant that doubles as a catering business training program in support of immigrant and refugee women. For Arden Lewis, Comal is the perfect blend of cuisine, culture and community, values that are close to his heart.
Organization
Comal Heritage Food Incubator
The Comal Heritage Food Incubator is an integrated program of the Focus Points Family Resource Center in Denver, USA. It is both a restaurant and a catering business training program designed to support immigrant and refugee women. The program offers participants from countries as diverse as Mexico, Syria, Iraq and Ethiopia the opportunity to celebrate their traditional cuisines while learning about culinary arts, entrepreneurship and professional foodservice.
