24 Facts About Keith Famie

Keith Famie famously appeared in Survivor: The Australian Outback, finishing in third place.

Keith Famie opened a 200-seat American bistro Les Auteurs in the Royal Oak, Michigan, one year later in 1988.

Keith Famie appeared alongside another chef Edward Janos in a 1988 cooking video Feathered Fowl and Game.

Keith Famie was one of twelve finalists in 1988 competing to represent the United States for the January 1989 Bocuse d'Or championship.

Keith Famie lost the spot to another finalist Jeff Jackson.

Keith Famie established a rotisserie take-out chain Keith Famie's Chicken in early 1990, which was eventually short-lived by no later than 1993.

Keith Famie closed the increasingly struggling Les Auteurs on June 27,1993, and re-established the same site as the cowboy-themed Durango Grill in mid-August 1993.

Keith Famie sold the Durango Grill concept in September 1994 to and then joined Buscemi International, hoping to expand the business nationwide.

Keith Famie became a chef of a brasserie Forte in Birmingham, Michigan, in no later than 1997.

Keith Famie founded a film company Visionalist Entertainment Productions in 1995.

Keith Famie produced a five-part television series covering Japanese cooking for WDIV-TV in late 1990s and the 1990s Detroit-produced travel and food series Keith Famie's Adventures in Cooking, later called Famie's Adventures in Cooking, seen by about 400,000 viewers of Detroit as of 1998.

Keith Famie produced a documentary special From Hanoi to China Beach: A Taste of the Exotic, shown in Fox Theatre for a charity event International Evening: Vietnam on August 28,1999, and then aired two days later on WDIV-TV.

Keith Famie was one of forty-eight applicants shortlisted for Survivor: Borneo.

Keith Famie eventually appeared on Survivor: The Australian Outback as part of the Ogakor tribe.

Keith Famie was not voted before, but a vote against Olson was cast in one prior Council, causing Olson to be eliminated.

Keith Famie won the season's first two individual immunity challenges, while the ex-Ogakor members, despite division among them, voted two ex-Kucha members off the merged tribe consecutively.

Consequently, Keith Famie finished third, became the seventh and final jury member, and then earned $85,000.

Keith Famie wrote another cookbook Keith Famie's Adventures in Cooking, released in March 2001 by Sleeping Bear Press and named after his Detroit-produced series.

Keith Famie wrote a 2003 cookbook You Really Haven't Been There Until You've Eaten the Food, co-authored by a Detroit Free Press wine columnist Chris Kassel and imprinted by Clarkson Potter.

Keith Famie appeared in a WXYZ-TV series Our Story Of, which covered various communities, such as Greek Americans, Arab Americans, and Italian Americans.

Keith Famie declined to appear on Survivor: All-Stars in order to care for his ailing non-biological father, a World War II veteran suffering from Alzheimer's disease until his death on December 3,2003.

Keith Famie wrote a 2016 nonfiction book Maire's Journey to the Sea about Maire Kent.

Keith Famie dedicated the film to his father who died in 2003.

Keith Famie has two children from his previous marriage, which ended with divorce.