Ximena Torres

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Ximena Torres
Born
María Ximena Torres Carrera

(1981-12-01) 1 December 1981 (age 42)
Montevideo, Uruguay
Education
Occupations
  • Chef
  • restaurateur
  • television personality
  • businesswoman
Television
Spouse
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(m. 2014)​
Children2
Website ladulceria.com.uy

Maria Ximena Torres Carrera (born 1 December 1981) is a Uruguayan chef, restaurateur, businesswoman and television personality. She has presented on different cooking shows, and has served as a judge on MasterChef Uruguay and its spin-offs since 2019.

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Early life and education

Maria Ximena Torres Carrera was born in Montevideo on 1 December 1981, the daughter of Montserrat Carrera and Marco Antonio Torres. [1] She has two sisters, Carolina and Rossana. [2] She is of Catalan and Chilean descent. [3] Her maternal grandparents immigrated to Uruguay in 1950 from Sant Joan Despí, Catalonia, Spain, and founded the renowned Confitería Carrera food business. [4] Raised in the Pocitos barrio , Torres attended Queen's School and the Montevideo Pre-University Institute (PREU). [5]

Torres earned a degree in communication studies with a specialization as a publicist from the Catholic University of Uruguay. In 2003 she was awarded a scholarship to study fine arts at Valdosta State University, Georgia. [5] She subsequently graduated as a sommelier from the University of the Republic, as a member of the first generation in 2007. [6] That year she settled for a season in Vic, Barcelona, where she took courses to become a professional in chocolate skills. [7]

Career

Culinary career

Torres began working professionally in gastronomy in 2000 and in catering in 2003. In 2012 she opened La Dulcería de Xime, a pastry shop and cafeteria located in the Punta Carretas barrio. [8] In subsequent years it expanded to different points in Montevideo and throughout Uruguay. [9]

Television and media career

In 2010 she made her debut on television, as the presenter of the culinary segment of the Teledoce morning show, Día perfecto. [10] The following year, her segment became the daily program La Receta Perfecta, in which Torres cooked different dishes accompanied by guests and two puppet characters making fun of different situations. [11] The show was on the air until 2014, when she decided to step away from television. [12]

In 2015, she published Comer y reír: manual para acercarse a la cocina con alegría, a book she co-authored with the presenter and comedian Manuela da Silveira, and in which they presented different tips and culinary proposals. [13] In 2017 she returned to the media, as co-host of the TV Ciudad cooking show, La vuelta al plato. [14] Broadcast for three seasons until 2019, the program consisted of making dishes from different parts of the world while learning about their history and their relationship with cultures. [15]

In February 2019 Channel 10 cast Torres as a judge of MasterChef Uruguay , as a replacement for Lucía Soria. [16] She was part of the fifth season of the version for amateur chefs and all four seasons of the spin-off featuring celebrities. [17] In July 2021, she joined the Subrayado newscast as a gastronomic journalism columnist. [18] In December 2020, she presented her cookbook, Casero es mejor, which in 2021 was awarded the best Latin American cookbook at the Gourmand Award in Paris. [19]

Personal life

Torres met the musician Max Capote while she was hosting La Receta Perfecta, a program he attended as a guest, and a short time later they began dating. [20] They got married on 14 February 2014. [21] The couple have two children, Juan Jacinto (b. December 2017) [22] and María Guadalupe (b. August 2019). [23]

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
2010–2011Día PerfectoHerselfColumnist
2011–2014La Receta PerfectaPresenter
2017–2019La Vuelta al PlatoCo-presenter
2019 MasterChef Uruguay Judge; 5th Season
2020–2023 MasterChef Celebrity Judge
2021–present Subrayado Columnist

Published works

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