Maria Luisa Ruvio, a Whitestone mother of two and executive assistant by day, is an innovator when she gets home, creating and trademarking a unique beverage, reports Your Nabe.Com.
I was always very creative, but I never really thought of it because I was raising two kids and didn’t have the time to dedicate to bringing ideas to life,” she said. “From that point on, when I wake up in the morning I have ideas, but ideas are just ideas until you bring them to life.”
One of her products, a beverage dubbed the Zabalatte and based off a popular drink in Italy with its origins in the sumptuous zabaglione Italian dessert, was first brought into Ruvio’s life by her mother, who wanted to ensure her daughter was getting a nutritious start to the day.
The drink, whose secret recipe consists of an egg, milk and other ingredients, has been brought back to life by Ruvio, who says it has enormous health benefits. She entered it in the “Idea Hunt for A.M. Commuter Beverage,” another invention contest in which she was named as a semifinalist.
“Don’t tell me I can’t do something because as soon as you do I come back and make it stronger,” she said. “I do not get discouraged easily and I’m not giving up.”
But the dream is not just a way for her to stroke her ego, she said. The ultimate goal for her would be to help fund her children’s schooling, particularly her 22-year-old daughter Maria’s graduate school.
“I want to pay for my children’s education and that’s why I’m doing it,” she said. “I enjoy doing it, but ultimately my kids are my inspiration.”
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