Melissa Ortiz was in the army for almost eight years and is now an executive chef at Rose Park Roasters on Pine Ave.
LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Rose Park Roasters' Executive Chef Melissa Ortiz rotates her menus here, usually focusing on seasonal ingredients.
"I was in the army for about seven and a half years stationed at Fort Bragg and then I was in the reserve, got activated and then I was in Africa for a year and I traveled all over the states," said Ortiz. She moved to Long Beach in 2011 when she left the military, but went back to Afghanistan and was a chef at the United States Embassy from Jan. 2020 to May 2021. While she was there, she made two good friends. They decided to visit Ortiz in Long Beach which sparked the Afghan food menu at Rose Park, which the three cooked together.
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