Sumito Estévez

Sumito Estévez Singh (born 22 October 1965 in Mérida, Venezuela) is a Venezuelan chef, writer, entrepreneur, educator and television personality.

Together with the chef Héctor Romero, Estévez founded the Instituto Culinario de Caracas, and has interests in commercial establishments in that city as well as abroad.

He is the son of the marriage between the Venezuelan physicist Raúl Estévez and Anusuya Singh, of Punjabi origin.

[1] His paternal grandmother, María Laprea, was the second wife of Aquiles Nazoa after they both became widowed; they were married in 1949.

His maternal grandfather was Sri Gurbaksh Singh (1895–1977), visionary and writer in Punjabi and founder of Prit Nágar, a town in northern India.