Texas Exes

See everyone tonight! Let’s support our fellow texas ex at tonight’s watch party!

Emily is a plant-based chef, media personality, and recipe developer based in Texas. Chef Emily’s training and travels have proven vital to expanding her expertise. As a graduate ofThe University of Texas at AustinandThe Natural Gourmet Institute NYC,she specializes in the nutrition and preparation of vegetables. Yet, to provide a comprehensive understanding of culinary arts, she also trained with chefs throughout America to hone her skills in cooking with animal protein.... Training with culinary experts and celebrity chefs such as,Gordon Ramsay, Iron Chef Canada,Amanda Cohen, Christina Wilson, Jay Santos,andJason Dadyhas helped Emily gain a broad range of visions and skillsets, from which she has curated her own style and platform. Emily is one of the youngest chefs and thefirst trained plant-based chef to compete in Fox’s Hells Kitchenfeaturing Gordon Ramsay. During her time at The University of Texas, she was a member of the 2015-2016 Texas Pom Squad as well as a student employee for Texas Athletics. She also participated in greek life and was a member of Texas Chi Omega.Her roots in the wellness sphere were shaped by her time studying community health and wellness at The University of Texas at Austin where she earned a B.S. in Kinesiology. Not only does Emily have a passion for food, but she also loves helping others who struggle with body image, eating disorders, and disordered eating. Through personal experience, Emily believes that one can recover from an unhealthy relationship with food through cooking. Emily is currently working at Jardín at the San Antonio Botanical Gardens as well as instructing cooking classes/demos both online and in person. She is also working on a holistic wellness cooking channel that will be coming soon to YouTube. Emily’s aspirations and goals are to help others realize the potential and beauty of food and ease of cooking at home as well as the importance of self-love and self-care. Check out @chef_emily_hersh today in our stories and on Hells Kitchen on Fox!! #texantuesdays

Tomorrow we will be having a special edition of #TexanTuesdays with our very own Texas Ex @chef_emily_hersh doing an Instagram takeover and talk about all things plant based recipes, San Antonio eateries, cooking tips and more!!! Stay tuned! We will also be hosting a @hellskitchenfox viewing party next Monday, 6/14 at @hornshooktavern, until then, catch her tonight on Fox!

Thirsty Thursday meets Puppy Meet Up, tomorrow @mables_smokehouse 6:30-9:30pm. We will be talking about new networking groups coming this year and they are dog friendly! See you on the patio! RSVP to [email protected]

Meet Ali Petlin, Texas Exes NYC Networking Coordinate, and this week's Texas Tuesday Spotlight! Ali is from San Antonio and received her degree in Sociology in 2011. She moved to NYC right after graduating from UT and worked with Fortune 500 companies handling corporate events for a destination management company. In 2015 Ali followed in her family's footsteps and joined the world of real estate. She is a residential real estate agent at Elegran Real Estate focusing on first-...time homebuyers, investors, and sellers. And soon to be a dual agent in NYC and Texas! "During the pandemic, I jumped on the puppy bandwagon and adopted a mini goldendoodle and named him Ocho David Rose. I am very excited to be on the Texas Exes New York board to get the networking groups up and running. One of the most popular suggestions was a dog owners meetup so I am looking forward to bringing Ocho to the Thirsty Thursday this week at Marbles and having him meet all the other UT alumni dogs!" Reach out to Ali via Instagram (@alipetlin) or [email protected] with any questions about the networking groups, suggestions for events or new groups to get started. #texastuesday