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Career Highlights
Awards & Recognition
★Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award (2024)
★Two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Culinary Host (2013, 2018)
★Seven James Beard Awards (Outstanding Chef, Television Food Show, Best Chefs in America, Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America, Specials 2016-2018)
★James Beard Award for Best Chef in New York (1999)
★New York Times three-star rating for Felidia
★APT Silver Award for 25 years on Public Television (2022)
★Wine Spectator Grand Award for Felidia
Notable Facts
→Celebrity chef, author, and restaurateur with 25+ years on PBS
→Owner/co-owner of acclaimed NYC restaurants Felidia, Becco, and partner in Eataly locations
→Emmy award-winning television host with multiple PBS series
→Author of over a dozen cookbooks
→Refugee from communist Yugoslavia who immigrated to US at age 11
→Founded Tavola Productions entertainment company
→Member of Les Dames d'Escoffier and founding member of Women Chefs and Restaurateurs
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