Food Network Magazine - (05)May 2020

This young chef turns

meat and potatoes into a

top-notch dinner.

YOU

CAN DO IT!

High Steaks

hen you’re the daughter of an Iron Chef,

you don’t grow up eating typical kids meals.

Thanks to her mom, Alex Guarnaschelli,

Ava Clark has been learning to cook and understand

food since she was a toddler, and now, at 12, she’s

searing pork chops, roasting whole fish and steaming

artichokes on her own. Her obsession with cooking

started at age 3 when she saw her mom making

spaghetti and meatballs. “I was like, what the heck is

that?” Ava says. Soon she learned how to

scramble eggs and slice an avocado, and

now she makes dinner a couple of nights

a week. “Since I started my first year

of middle school, I’ve been going to different

grocery stores in the afternoon to check out all the

ingredients,” she says. This steak au poivre was inspired

by her grandfather, and the potatoes are a favorite of

her mom. “I’m learning from the best,” Ava says.

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Ava's mom,

Alex Guarnaschelli

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