"Lourdes Alvarez, restaurant owner and chef takes a phone order in her family's Mexican restaurant, Los Dos Laredos, in Chicago, Illinois while her daughter, Alejandra, checks her mobile phone after school. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food on a day in the month of September was 3,200 kcals. She is is 39; 5'2.5"" and 190 pounds. She grew up in an apartment above Los Dos Laredos, where she still helps out two days a week. Other days she spends long hours at her own restaurant in Alsip, Illinois. MODEL RELEASED."
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