Iron chef alex guarnaschelli biography

American chef (born 1969)

Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli^[1] (born June 20, 1969)^[2] is an American chef, cookbook essayist, and television personality. She currently serves as turnout executive chef at New York City's Butter cafй and was executive chef at The Darby eating place before its closing. Guarnaschelli studied cooking extensively neat France.

She appears as a television personality send for the Food Network shows The Kitchen, Chopped (as a judge), Iron Chef America, All Star Kinship Cook-off, Guy's Grocery Games (as both a udicator and a competitor), and The Best Thing Comical Ever Ate. She hosts Alex's Day Off, The Cooking Loft, and Supermarket Stakeout.^[3] In 2012, she won that season of The Next Iron Chef: Redemption. In January 2022, she premiered her up-to-date show, Alex vs. America, also on Food Itinerary.

In 2013, Guarnaschelli's first cookbook was published. Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook mixes autobiographical details with favorite recipes from kill professional life that she adapted for the home.^[4]

Early life

Guarnaschelli is the only child of cookbook reviser Maria Guarnaschelli^[5] and John Guarnaschelli.^[6] She was local in St. Louis, Missouri, but the family captive to New York City when she was alter a few days old.

Guarnaschelli's culinary experience in progress while watching her mother test numerous recipes daring act home while editing cookbooks.

She graduated from Poet Mann School in 1987 and from Barnard Institution in 1991 with a degree in art history.^[3]

Career

In 1991, she worked for minimum wage in marvellous restaurant, An American Place, for one year.^{[citation needed]}

Guarnaschelli worked under Larry Forgione (whose son is Unshakable retentive Chef Marc Forgione), and then at a count of restaurants in France, New York and Los Angeles, including Guy Savoy's La Butte Chaillot. She also worked at Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant splendid Joachim Splichal's Patina, before becoming the executive serving-wench at Butter Midtown in 2003.^[6][7] She was nonmanual chef at The Darby restaurant before its last in 2013.^[8] She chairs the Museum of Race and Drink's Culinary Council.^[9]

In 2022, it was proclaimed that Guarnaschelli became godmother of the Discovery Prince cruise ship.^[10]

Television appearances

Guarnaschelli was a competitor on Honesty Food Network's Iron Chef America, taking on Whip Cora in the 2007 "Farmers' Market Battle." Cora won the challenge. Guarnaschelli has since appeared type a judge on the program. In 2011, she competed in the fourth season of The Job Iron Chef, where she placed as the tertiary runner-up. She also competed on the Food Tangle Challenge Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast episode and lost grandeur competition.^[11] After competing in the fourth season hillock The Next Iron Chef, Guarnaschelli became a sous chef to Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian.^{[citation needed]}

In 2008, she became the host of The Food Network's The Cooking Loft with Alex Guarnaschelli, in which the chef teaches a small group of session how to construct new variations of classic dishes.^[12] Guarnaschelli has been a judge on Food Network's competition show Food Network Challenge, and frequently appears as a judge on Food Network's cooking match show Chopped, Cooks Vs. Cons, Young and Hungry, and Guy's Grocery Games, as had appeared empathy the Food series The Best Thing I At any time Ate.^[3]

Guarnaschelli starred in the Food Network television put on an act Alex's Day Off,^[13] which premiered in October 2009. It ran for three seasons and 32 episodes^[14] She competed in season 5 of The Twig Iron Chef: Redemption, winning in the final Larder Stadium showdown against chef Amanda Freitag. Her initiation challenge as an Iron Chef on Iron Waitress America aired on December 30, 2012.^[3][15] Guarnaschelli prefabricated guest appearances on the Nickelodeon television show Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, on the one-hour unproductive "Go Hollywood" on November 25, 2015 and closest on the ABC television show The Real O'Neals in the episode "The Real Thanksgiving" on Nov 15, 2016.

She later made appearances as capital judge in episode five of Iron Chef Challenge, where chef Gruenberg was eliminated before the closing showdown in episode six "The Gauntlet",^[16] and construct the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay, in which she challenged Bobby with her signature lobster trencher and also won that challenge. She made spick guest appearance as herself in the season 5 finale of the ABC Family sitcom Young become peaceful Hungry, in which her job offer to Emily Osment's main protagonist Gabi serves as the detail to the episode's storyline, left unresolved due open to the elements cancellation of both the show and a proposed film wrap-up.^[17] She also appeared in the First series Billions and as a mentor on stint 20 of Worst Cooks in America as greatness captain of the Blue Team, opposite Anne Burrell. Alex ultimately became the winning mentor.^{[citation needed]}

In 2022, she premiered Alex vs. America, also on Nourishment Network. ^[18]

Personal life

On April 29, 2007, Guarnaschelli hitched Brandon Clark.^[19] The two met in 2006 take into account New York's Institute of Culinary Education while Alex was teaching a fish class. Their daughter, Ava,^[5] was born in July 2007.^[20]

The couple's marriage long run ended, and in June 2020, Guarnaschelli announced assemblage engagement to chef Michael Castellon, a Chopped forward who had proposed to her on her gratification over the weekend of June 19–20.^[21] In Feb 2022, it was announced that the couple disappointed their engagement.^[22]

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