1. Jeremiah Tower was born on 1942 and is an American celebrity chef who, along with Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck, has been credited with pioneering the culinary style known as California cuisine.
16 Facts About Jeremiah Tower
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Jeremiah Tower got a bachelor's degree at Harvard University and got a master's degree in architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
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Jeremiah Tower was in charge of the kitchen, the menus and promotion of the restaurant.
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Jeremiah Tower left Chez Panisse in 1978 after philosophical and business disagreements with the majority of the board and with Waters in particular.
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Jeremiah Tower next worked at the Ventana Inn in Big Sur then in 1980 taught briefly at the California Culinary Academy.
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In 1981, Jeremiah Tower revived the failing Balboa Cafe in San Francisco, a restaurant owned by Cathe and Doyle Moon.
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In 1984, partnering with Cathe and Doyle Moon, Jeremiah Tower opened Stars, which became one of the top-grossing restaurants in the Bay Area.
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Jeremiah Tower opened branches of the restaurant in Oakville, Palo Alto, Manila, and Singapore.
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In 1998, Jeremiah Tower sold part of his interest in the Stars restaurants to a Singapore-based real estate company.
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Jeremiah Tower moved to Manila for a year and then to New York City for four years, followed by a move to Italy and then Mexico.
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In 2014, Jeremiah Tower was hired as executive chef of Tavern on the Green in New York City but left in April 2015 after six months.
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Jeremiah Tower is married to his husband Curtis Cox since 2020.
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In 2017, Jeremiah Tower appeared on Top Chef, the Rick Stein-presented BBC TV show Road to Mexico, the CRAVE wine and food festival in Spokane, Washington, as guest of honor at Chef's Roll in Miami Beach, and as a judge at the Basque Culinary Center World Awards in Mexico City.
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In 1985, Jeremiah Tower was named in Who's Who in American Cooking by Cook's Magazine.
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Jeremiah Tower won the James Beard Foundation Award for "Best Chef in California" in 1993 and "Outstanding Chef of the Year" in 1996.
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In 2017, Jeremiah Tower was appointed a Founding Patron of the Oxford Cultural Collective, an educational body specializing in hospitality and gastronomy.