13 Facts About Marcela Valladolid

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Marcela Luz Valladolid was born on July 19,1978 and is an American chef and author.

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Marcela Valladolid was the host of the Food Network television series Mexican Made Easy, and a judge on the Food Network series Best Baker in America.

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Marcela Valladolid then returned to Tijuana and started her own catering company and taught cooking techniques to classes of 40 students out of her home there.

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Marcela Valladolid joined the staff of Bon Appetit magazine as an editor and recipe stylist.

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Marcela Valladolid competed on the 2005 series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, in which she came in fourth place.

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Marcela Valladolid's first cooking show was Relatos con Sabor on Discovery en Espanol which aired in the US and Latin America.

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Marcela Valladolid's second cooking show, "Mexican Made Easy", debuted in January 2010 on the Food Network.

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Marcela Valladolid and Flay teamed up to defeat Masaharu Morimoto and teammate Andrew Zimmern on a New Year's edition of Iron Chef America in 2012.

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Marcela Valladolid was one of two judges on the CBS reality TV cooking competition series The American Baking Competition.

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On November 27,2013, Marcela Valladolid was a guest model on the Thanksgiving episode of The Price Is Right, and long before that was a contestant in 2004 playing "That's Too Much", winning a car.

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In January 2014, Marcela Valladolid debuted as one of the co-hosts on Food Network's show The Kitchen.

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Marcela Valladolid has a son named Fausto Gallardo with her ex-husband Fausto Gallardo, son David Button-Valladolid and daughter Anna Carina Button-Valladolid with her current husband Philip Button.

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In 2013, Marcela Valladolid had a brief affair with her The American Baking Competition co-host Paul Hollywood.