At the age of 14, Lucía Scarpa discovered that the world of cooking was what she was most passionate about and, from that moment on, she did not stop until she achieved something that seemed unthinkable: become a celebrity private chef. She was responsible for the daily meals of Wos and currently it is two professional soccer players.
It all started during his adolescence, when he decided to become vegetarian and her mother told her that she should be in charge of her meals herself. Given her warning, the young woman from Escobar began to look for recipes so as not to always eat the same thing and He noticed that he liked gastronomy more and more. Little by little she got more into the new field and started making cakes to sell in the neighborhood and to her mother’s friends.
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Lucía spent hours and hours cooking while enjoying what she did. It was at that moment that her mother motivated her to continue with her hobby and she could fulfill her dream of becoming a professional. Although she stated that as a girl she imagined herself being an architect or at least starting a career at the university like her classmates, following a social “mandate.”
However, his vision changed when he discovered his true passion. After graduating from high school in 2017, she began studying at a renowned culinary institute. This was her journey for two years.
Lucía Scarpa was Wos’ private chef for a month. (Photo: Instagram/@luluscarpa)
“While I was studying, my uncle who lives in Spain and he told me the idea that an acquaintance of his was looking for a person to open a restaurant in Mallorca”said the young woman. Faced with her unexpected proposal, Lucía did not hesitate for a second and she traveled with her mother to meet the person who a few months later would become her partner. Everything turned out as she expected and she ended up opening her store.
Five months later, the restaurant healthy food It started working and it got better and better. “We had clients who vacationed for ten days in Spain and chose to go to our location for four days. That’s when I realized that what we were doing was good.“said the chef. She worked until last year, when she returned to Argentina and discovered that her country was the place she wanted to be. “It was very hard to be away from my home, my family, my friends and my boyfriend,” she said.
A healthy food venture: the project that led her to be the chef of Wos
“I bet that I do well here, in my field. I wanted to have my future in Argentina”Lucía summarized when telling how she started her healthy food venture. She sent her food to companies, caterings and even families bought it for the kids to take to school.
As time went by, she began to become better known in the field until the call she never imagined came. “They contacted me from Wos production to make meals for him because it was difficult for him to cook at night when he arrived”Lucía told TN. From one day to the next, the young woman was in the singer’s kitchen preparing lunch, snack and dinner for him. Like this for a whole month, while he recorded his new album.
“The experience was tremendous”said the cook, while describing the singer as “a total jerk.” “I never showed myself as Cholula or asked him for anything, but the last day I worked at his house I said: ‘I have to leave here with a photo.’” By sharing the image on social networks, especially on TikTokLucía managed to add thousands of followers who were interested in how she had gotten that job.
On her social networks she usually shares her content from her daily life as a cook. (Photo: Instagram/@luluscarpa)
When her work went viral, the girl was hired by two soccer playerswho although he did not want to provide the names, stated that it is one of Mouth and another of San Lorenzoto whom she has the absolute freedom to cook whatever she wants, although the only condition is that they have carbohydrates either proteins for their conditions as athletes.
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“The truth is that I am happy,” he stated regarding the present in which he has to live. “I feel like it’s a job that I didn’t look for, but many who study gastronomy would like to have it,” he said. Also, he clarified: “I am fulfilling a dream that I didn’t think I had. “I am really enjoying my day today.”.
“I feel like I always dreamed of it, but not literally what I live today, it is much more”
From the minute she started cooking, Lucía never saw it as a job. “I always enjoyed it so much because it is my vocation, my passion, my everything,” she said enthusiastically.
He works from Monday to Friday, from 7 in the morning until the afternoon. Your day begins when you have to go buy the raw materials for what you are going to cook during that work day. “I’m cooking all day, I don’t stop for a second,” she remarked. Even on the days when she comes home late and doesn’t feel like cooking, she does it anyway because she feels it is a way of show self love.
Finally, Lucía revealed that she still has a dream to fulfill: open your own restaurant in Argentinasomething he considers “a different goal.”
