Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli was born on June 20,1969 and is an American chef, cookbook author, and television personality.
15 Facts About Alex Guarnaschelli
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Alex Guarnaschelli currently serves as an executive chef at New York City's Butter restaurant and was executive chef at The Darby restaurant before its closing.
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Alex Guarnaschelli 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.
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Alex Guarnaschelli was born in St Louis, Missouri, but the family moved to New York City when she was just a few days old.
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Alex Guarnaschelli graduated from Horace Mann School in 1987 and from Barnard College in 1991 with a degree in art history.
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Alex Guarnaschelli worked under Larry Forgione, and then at a number of restaurants in France, New York and Los Angeles, including Guy Savoy's La Butte Chaillot.
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Alex Guarnaschelli worked at Daniel Boulud's eponymous restaurant and Joachim Splichal's Patina, before becoming the executive chef at Butter Midtown in 2003.
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Alex Guarnaschelli was executive chef at The Darby restaurant before its closing in 2013.
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In 2022, it was announced that Alex Guarnaschelli became godmother of the Discovery Princess cruise ship.
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Alex Guarnaschelli has since appeared as a judge on the program.
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Alex Guarnaschelli competed on the Food Network Challenge Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast episode and lost the competition.
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Alex 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.
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Alex Guarnaschelli later made appearances as a judge in episode five of Iron Chef Gauntlet, where chef Sarah Gruenberg was eliminated before the final showdown in episode six "The Gauntlet", and on the Food Network's Beat Bobby Flay, in which she challenged Bobby with her signature lobster dish and won that challenge.
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Alex Guarnaschelli made a guest appearance as herself in the season 5 finale of the ABC Family sitcom Young and Hungry, in which her job offer to Emily Osment's main protagonist Gabi serves as the crux to the episode's storyline, left unresolved due to cancellation of both the show and a planned film wrap-up.
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Alex Guarnaschelli appeared in the Showtime series Billions and as a mentor on season 20 of Worst Cooks in America as the captain of the Blue Team, opposite Anne Burrell.