Chef Neena Perez started the kiddie kitchen because she believes that spending quality time with children is essential to their future. She is a mother of 3 boys and 1 girl. They are her world and she enjoys not only cooking for them but also sharing her cooking knowledge with them during mealtimes. She is a passionate Mother and Chef.

She works hard to help developing strong, independent, respectful†and well rounded children; and cooking is a fun way for children to develop these qualities.
Neena is a certified chef and is Servsafe certified. Her school curriculum involves many areas of food creation including food basics and preparation, food purchasing and production, international foods, catering, event management, sanitation and nutrition. This is knowledge which she passes on not only to her Chef’s assistants, but also to those who attend her parties on a weekly basis.

Neena knows that nutrition is very important in today’s fast food oriented society. Even more important is the need to get back to the kitchen with our families. She truly believes that it is very important to listen to our children and be involved in their lives as much as possible. One of the most fundamental ways she has found to communicate with her children has been through cooking and family meals. It is tradition in her home to eat together as a family and be open to one another. It is a non threatening environment and they feel encouraged by what they can accomplish in the kitchen. It teaches them life giving skills that they can use in other areas of their life including math, organization and responsibility, that start in the kitchen and then spread out into the rest of their world.