19 Facts About Chris Cosentino

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Chris Cosentino is an American celebrity chef and reality television personality known as the winner of Top Chef Masters, a competitor on The Next Iron Chef and for his appearances on Iron Chef America.

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Chris Cosentino is known for his haute cuisine offal dishes, and was chef-partner at Incanto in San Francisco.

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In 2018, Cosentino gave a cooking demonstration to students at his alma mater, during which he offered students career advice to achieve their goals.

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Chris Cosentino cited Pepin's cookbooks, La Technique and La Methode, with their detail and step-by-step illustrations as helping him deal with dyslexia and attention deficit disorder.

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Chris Cosentino worked at Mark Miller's Red Sage and later at Kinkead's, in Washington, DC He then moved to San Francisco's Rubicon, which was owned by Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams and Robert De Niro.

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Chris Cosentino went on to work at several prestigious restaurants, such as the Coach House on Martha's Vineyard and Bay Area restaurants Chez Panisse and Belon.

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Chris Cosentino was then hired as a consultant to the Aqua restaurant group.

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In 2007, Chris Cosentino opened a salumeria named Boccalone: Tasty Salted Pig Parts in San Francisco's Ferry Building.

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Chris Cosentino uses many of the original recipes from Easton's for Boccalone products.

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Palladin was an avid hunter and taught Chris Cosentino to be realistic and respectful about the fate of an animal going from the farmyard or the forest to the dinner plate.

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In October 2007 Chris Cosentino was a contestant on The Next Iron Chef, competing with his former mentor at Rubicon, Traci Des Jardins, still a close friend.

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Chris Cosentino is regularly featured on episodes of the Food Network series The Best Thing I Ever Ate.

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Chris Cosentino considers single-varietal extra-virgin olive oils with their distinctive flavors as his culinary secret weapon.

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Chris Cosentino has been especially dedicated to the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market.

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In 2011 it was announced that Chris Cosentino is teaming up with the publishers of Wolverine to write a comic book.

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Chris Cosentino has authored a cookbook, Beginnings: My Way to Start a Meal, published in May 2012.

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In March 2012, Chris Cosentino partnered with Adam Fleischman and opened PIGG, "a tribute to all things pork around the world", at UMAMIcatessen in Los Angeles.

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On September 26,2012, Cosentino won season four of Top Chef Masters on Bravo, raising $141,000 for the Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research.

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In 2016, Chris Cosentino announced that he would open Jackrabbit, his first restaurant outside of California, in Portland, Oregon.