Eva Longoria Parker is Minding Her Own Businesses
by Bobbie Katz
If you were to ask Eva Longoria Parker what she has cooking lately, guaranteed her answer would give a whole new meaning to the definition of a “full plate.”
That’s because the beautiful award-winning actress who is entering her 7th season starring as “Gabrielle Solis” on the ABC-TV mega-hit Desperate Housewives, is also a Hollywood/Las Vegas restaurateur/businesswoman… not to mention a producer/director who owns her own production company, an international spokeswoman for L’Oreal Paris, an advocate for the Latino community and for women, the national spokeswoman for PADRES Contra El Cáncer (Parents Against Cancer), a speaker, a philanthropist, a wife, and a woman who has founded her own charities and organizations and sits on the board of numerous others.
In reality, however, the one place that Longoria Parker can have her “stake” – and eat it, too – is at her restaurant, Beso (meaning “kiss” in Spanish) in the elegant Crystals retail center at the $8.5-billion Leed Gold CityCenter complex in Las Vegas. It is there that the public gets a chance to see what has allowed her to keep stirring the pot in so many areas of her life – cooking has always been her form of therapy.
“I cook almost daily for friends and family,” Longoria Parker says. “Cooking is one of the most personal things you can do. It’s a way of sharing love. I grew up in Miami cooking, and then when I met Tony six years ago, I learned to make a lot of French food and sauces. “
