For the De Asis family, food is synonymous with family matched with their secret ingredients of love, joy, and a celebration of life.
Cristina, the matriarch of the family demonstrates her language of love through food. Growing up, Cristina was exposed to her father’s fishing business. “My father started his fishing business when I was five years old. At twelve years old, my older brother and I would spend our early mornings literally getting our hands dirty shucking scallops and removing shrimp heads in our mother’s kitchen. It was only natural that my mother had me shadowing her while she prepared family meals of mostly seafood,” Cristina shares.
With a strong yearning to take care of people, Cristina’s childhood dream was to be a doctor. She completed her Bachelor’s degree…
