Why Food Network's Alex Guarnaschelli Is On a Mission to Help Single Moms
Except she can, at least a little. Her stressors were nowhere near as amplified, Guarnaschelli already having established herself as an in-demand chef ahead of Ava's 2007 arrival, working at Michelin-starred French eatery Daniel in New York and L.A.'s upscale Patina before landing her executive chef spot at NYC's Butter in 2003.
But she can certainly understand the feeling of insecurity. "I think you don't need any more reasons to feel anxious if you are a future mother or if you are a single mother," she noted. "And I've been both."Precisely a month after Ava's July 2007 arrival, Guarnaschelli made her Food Network debut, taking on future network cohort. Guarnaschelli lost, but she'd already notched a more important victory at home.
She can still recall precisely how she felt mere days after leaving the hospital with Ava: exhausted, anxious and entirely confident that she had no idea what she was doing.
The kind words shifted Guaranschelli from freaked to fully, completely, unabashedly in love. "I went into the crib to look at her," she shared. "And I heard this kind of gurgling and I was like, 'Oh god, what happened?' And I looked over and she was moving her arms and legs and kicking all her body parts around because she was so vibrant. And she looked at me and smiled.
As for what she's gleaned over the past decade-plus, "I find the good in every day with her," she explained. "I look for it."
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