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Alex Guarnaschelli
Born
Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli

1972
Alma materBarnard College
SpouseBrandon Clark (2007-?)
Children1
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s)
    • Butter
Previous restaurant(s)
    • The Darby
Television show(s)
Websitewww.alexguarnaschelli.com

Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli[1] (born 1972)[2] is an executive chef at New York City's Butter restaurant and was executive chef at The Darby restaurant before its closing. She appears as a television personality on the Food Network shows The Kitchen, Chopped, Iron Chef America, All Star Family Cook-off, Guy's Grocery Games, and The Best Thing I Ever Ate. She hosts Alex's Day Off, The Cooking Loft and Supermarket Stakeout on Food Network and Cooking Channel.[2] In 2012, she won that season of The Next Iron Chef: Redemption.

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 her professional life that she adapted for the home.[3]

Early life

Guarnaschelli is the daughter of cookbook editor Maria[4] and John Guarnaschelli.[5] She graduated from Barnard College in 1991 with a degree in art history.[2] In 1991 she worked for minimum wage in a restaurant called an American Place for one year. Guarnaschelli's culinary experience started while watching her mother test numerous recipes at home while editing cookbooks.

Career

Guarnaschelli worked under Larry Forgione (whose son is Iron Chef Marc Forgione), and then at a number 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 and Joachim Splichal's Patina before becoming the executive chef at Butter.[5][6] She was executive chef at The Darby restaurant before its closing.[7] She chairs of the Museum of Food and Drink's Culinary Council.[8]

Television appearances

Guarnaschelli was a competitor on The Food Network's Iron Chef America, taking on Cat Cora in the 2007 "Farmers' Market Battle." Cora won the challenge. Guarnaschelli has since appeared as a judge on the program. In 2011, she competed in the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef, where she placed as the third runner-up. She also competed on the Food Network Challenge Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast episode and lost the competition.[9] After competing in the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef, Guarnaschelli became a sous chef to Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian.

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 students how to construct new variations of classic dishes.[10]

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 competition show Chopped, Cooks Vs. Cons, Young and Hungry, and Guy's Grocery Games, as had appeared on the Food series The Best Thing I Ever Ate.[2]

She competed in season 5 of The Next Iron Chef: Redemption. She won in the final Kitchen Stadium showdown against chef Amanda Freitag. Her debut challenge as an Iron Chef on Iron Chef America aired on December 30, 2012.[2][11]

She made a guest appearance on the Nickelodeon television show Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn, on the one-hour special "Go Hollywood" on November 25, 2015.

She made a guest appearance on the ABC television show The Real O'Neals in the episode "The Real Thanksgiving" on November 15, 2016.

Guarnaschelli appeared as a judge in episode five of Iron Chef Gauntlet, where chef Gruenberg was eliminated before the final showdown in episode six "The Gauntlet".[12]

She appeared on the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay. She challenged Bobby with her signature lobster dish. She also won that challenge. She made a guest appearance on Billions.

Guarnaschelli appeared as a mentor on season 20 of Worst Cooks in America as the captain of the Blue Team, opposite Anne Burrell. Alex ultimately became the winning mentor of Season 20 "Worst Cooks in America".

Alex's Day Off

Guarnaschelli starred in the Food Network television show Alex's Day Off,[13] which premiered in October 2009.[needs update]

Books

  • Old School Comfort Food (Clarkson Potter, 2013) ISBN 9780307956552
  • The Home Cook (Clarkson Potter, 2017) ISBN 9780307956583
  • Cook With Me (Clarkson Potter, 2020) ISBN 9780593135082

Personal life

On April 29, 2007, Guarnaschelli married Brandon Clark.[14] The two met in 2006 at New York's Institute of Culinary Education while Alex was teaching a fish class. Their daughter, Ava, was born in July 2007.[15]

The couple's marriage eventually ended, and in June 2020, Guarnaschelli announced her engagement to chef Michael Castellon, a Chopped winner who had proposed to her on her birthday over the weekend of June 19-20.[16]

References

  1. ^ "Italian Holiday Battle". Iron Chef Showdown. December 6, 2017. Event occurs at 36:39. Food Network. Retrieved July 31, 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Alex Guarnaschelli". TheChefsConnection.com. March 30, 2014. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved May 25, 2015. Born:1972
  3. ^ "My Book". Archived from the original on January 3, 2015. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  4. ^ Cookie mag.com Archived June 30, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ a b "Me". Alex Guarnaschelli official site. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  6. ^ Kirichik, Roman. "Butter Midtown". Butter Restaurant. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  7. ^ Wang, Andy (2013-06-29). "Darby supper club to close in a month". Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  8. ^ "Advisors". Museum of Food and Drink. Archived from the original on July 29, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2019.
  9. ^ Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast : Food Network Challenge : Food Network, archived from the original on October 19, 2012, retrieved August 17, 2016
  10. ^ The Cooking Loft : Food Network, retrieved August 17, 2016
  11. ^ Chen, Susannah. "Alex Guarnaschelli on Next Iron Chef". Popsugar. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  12. ^ Brown, Alton (host) (May 14, 2017). "Five Ingredients". Iron Chef Gauntlet. Season 1. Episode 5. Food Network.
  13. ^ Alex's Day Off : Food Network, retrieved August 17, 2016
  14. ^ Sipher, Devan (2007-05-20). "Alexandra Guarnaschelli and Brandon Clark". The New York Times. Retrieved December 16, 2014.
  15. ^ "Butter's Alex Guarnaschelli Is Her Baby's Personal Chef". Grub Street. Retrieved August 17, 2016.
  16. ^ "Food Network Star Alex Guarnaschelli Is Engaged: 'I Want to Have a Blowout' Wedding, She Says". People. Retrieved 2020-06-23.


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