Season 3, Episode 10: Enamor Kitchen, Acceptance
We are stronger than we think. Unfortunately, we usually don’t find this out until we’ve had to go through hell and back. Sometimes it takes losing everything to really find out who we are, what we are made of and how resilient we are.
But what happens if everything you knew disappeared? Your marriage, your home, your career and your sense of self? How do you pick yourself up again and keep going? This week I chat with Valentina Deboya from Enamor Kitchen about her journey to where she is now. It hasn’t been an easy one. She moved from Columbia to Frankfurt for a man she loved to then go through a heartbreaking divorce to finally getting her business up and running to covid shutting it down. She had to figure out how the hell she was going to make it. But Valentina did not give up, she kept going and through what felt like hitting rock bottom, she picked herself up and kept going, stronger and more resilient than every. Through therapy, self-love, acceptance and determination, Valentina is now finally at home in Frankfurt and in herself.
A bit about Valentina:
I was born in Colombia, studied law and became a lawyer. When my father retired early and bought a pasta machine to start his own company making pasta I realized that life is about combining your passion with your profession so I studied Culinary Arts in Argentina and began my career as a professional chef, working in several top restaurants in South America before founding two successful restaurants of my own.
I moved to Frankfurt in 2011 and since have built my brand and company, Enamor. I ran a Café Bistro named “Enamor Express” in the US Consulate General Frankfurt for 7 years, have taught various Latin American inspired cooking classes at the Genuss Akademie, worked as a personal chef to multiple families and individuals and have catered hundreds of special events.
I am passionate about food, experiences, colors, textures and flavours.