Cooking Up Conversation: Bar Gimme Gimme’s and Amor Eterno’s Aaron Peña

Name: Aaron Peña
Job: Co-founder of Bar Gimme Gimme and Amor Eterno
Hometown: San Antonio
Years in food and beverage service: 12
Big Impact: Peña is one of the highest-profile figures in Southtown’s bar scene, and other notable projects include the now-shuttered Squeezebox
Money Quote: “[A cancer diagnosis] is the worst-case scenario that everyone envisions, but you can find purpose. People should understand that it isn’t the end of the world, you just have to realign your world.”