Dominican powerhouse Inés Páez, better known as Chef Tita, has dedicated her culinary life to preserving and promoting the food culture of her native Dominican Republic, at home and around the globe. She is the living epitome of community spirit, and there’s nothing she wouldn’t do for her country’s cuisine. As well as the chef of Morisoñando and Aguají restaurants, Chef Tita is the author of La Nueva Cocina Dominicana, which collects 100 reinvented and updated recipes to protect the legacy of Dominican food for future generations. she is an icon for every player in the Dominican food community and inspires others by showing them how to be a proud ambassador for the national cuisine and its indigenous produce and ancestral techniques. She has been voted one of Forbes magazine’s 100 Most Influential Women in the region three times, and in 2022 was the first Dominican to take the main stage at Madrid Fusion, where she showed the world why her cuisine is their next big story.
