Awards & Recognition
★8-time James Beard Award winner including Outstanding Chef 2010
★Emmy Awards for Top Chef - Outstanding Reality-Competition Programming 2010
★Bon Appetit Chef of the Year 2002
★Multiple NY Times three-star ratings for restaurants
★Food & Wine Best New Chef
Notable Facts
→Head judge and executive producer of Emmy-winning Top Chef for 20 seasons
→8-time James Beard Award winner including Outstanding Chef 2010
→Owns Crafted Hospitality restaurant group with locations in NYC, Las Vegas, Long Island
→Co-founded Independent Restaurant Coalition during COVID-19
→Host of iHeartRadio podcast Citizen Chef
→Executive produced documentary A Place at the Table about hunger in America
→Former co-owner of acclaimed Gramercy Tavern
→Published three cookbooks
→925K+ Twitter followers, 379K Instagram followers
→Food policy activist who worked with Michelle Obama on Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act