Eduardo Garcia

Eduardo Garcia (born 1981) is an American celebrity chef and the co-founder of Montana Mex, a Mexican food company. He is known as the "bionic chef" because he cooks with a prosthetic left arm, the result of an accident while hunting in 2011. His story has received significant coverage from outlets including, The Huffington Post, People magazine, Good Morning America, and others.

Early life Eduardo Garcia was born in 1981. His father was a fisherman and chef, and his mother was an astrologer, Montessori teacher and author.

Career

Early career While in college, Garcia was offered a job as chef of a 107-foot yacht called Dorothea. He accepted and, upon graduation, spent two and half years aboard the ship. His job allowed him to travel the world, learning about different ethnic cuisines along the way. He was knocked to the ground and severely burned. He remembers telling himself to get up, but after that his memory is incomplete - the next thing he remembers is walking on a road a mile away from the accident spot. By the time he found help, Garcia had walked three miles.

While in hospital, Garcia was also diagnosed with stage two testicular cancer. The cancer required him to put his surgeries on hold to undergo three months of chemotherapy. He recalls, "I had to get through [the cancer] to get back to business, which was surgery and recovery of self." In November, he was profiled by People magazine. In January 2014, he appeared on The Chew In May, he appeared on Katie.

Garcia has also appeared on Hallmark Channel’s "Home & Family" and his recipes have appeared on HGTV.com, Refinery29, and Latina.com.

In 2015 a Kickstarter campaign was used to fund a documentary feature film about Garcia. The resulting film, Charged: The Eduardo Garcia Story, was released in 2018.

Garcia has appeared on Chopped as a guest judge.

Garcia is the host of Big Sky Kitchen With Eduardo Garcia on the Magnolia Network.

Personal life Garcia is an avid outdoorsman and hunter.