Scott Conant Biography
Scott Conant is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, and cookbook author from the United States. Conant has been a judge on the reality cookery show Chopped since 2009.
How old is Scott Conant? – Age
He is 52 years old as of 19 February 2023. He was born in 1971 in Waterbury, Connecticut, United States.
Scott Conant Family – Education
Charles and Anne (née Varrone) Conant are his parents. On his mother’s side, he is of Italian origin. He began cooking at a young age, enrolling in cooking lessons at the local community college when he was 11 years old. He enrolled in W.F. Kaynor Technical High School for culinary skills at the age of 15, and then went on to the Culinary Institute of America (CIA).
Scott Conant Wife
Since 2007, Conant has been married to Meltem (née Bozkurt). They have two daughters.
Scott Conant Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Scott Conant Cookbooks
Conant’s fourth cookbook, Peace, Love, and Pasta: Simple and Elegant Recipes from a Chef’s Home Kitchen, was released in 2021. Conant went on to expand the Scarpetta brand to national prominence with restaurants in New York City, Miami, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, as well as the publication of The Scarpetta Cookbook, which was inspired by restaurant dishes.
Scott Conant 24 hour
Conant hosted and judged the culinary Network reality culinary competition show 24 Hour Restaurant Battle, which premiered in July 2010. The show sets two teams of two people against each other as they try to create a restaurant from scratch in 24 hours. The show aired for two seasons.
Scott Conant Career
Conant interned at San Domenico, a well-known New York City restaurant, while attending the Culinary Institute of America. This experience had a significant impact on the young chef. He studied pastry at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof in Munich, Germany, for a year following graduation. He worked as a sous chef when he returned to the United States and San Domenico. He was chosen to be chef de cuisine at Il Toscanaccio, a Tuscan-style restaurant on the Upper East Side, in 1995. He went on to become executive chef at City Eatery, a restaurant in New York City on the Bowery.
Conant opened L’Impero in Tudor City in September 2002. The New York Times gave the restaurant a three-star rating within weeks, stating, “[Conant is] turning out dishes full of flavors that are joyful and highly refined.” He is almost always in control and in tune, from the simplest to the most complicated preparations.” Food & Wine featured Conant’s signature pastas on its cover, and in 2004, the publication named Conant one of America’s “Best New Chefs.”
In 2003, L’Impero won the James Beard Foundation’s top awards, including “Outstanding Restaurant Design” and “Best New Restaurant” in the United States.
In Gourmet’s “Chefs Rock” issue in October 2003, Conant was featured on the cover, and in March 2004, Gourmet editor Ruth Reichl named L’Impero one of her favorite New York restaurants. Conant opened Alto, a “sophisticated” Italian restaurant in midtown Manhattan that served his take on Northern Italian cuisine after L’Impero.
In 2007, Conant left L’Impero and Alto to open Scarpetta in Chelsea, Manhattan, in 2008. The restaurant received three stars from The New York Times and New York Magazine in July 2008.
Scott Conant TV Shows and Movies
♦ 2021-Present – Tournament of Champions
♦ 2020 – All-Star Best Thing I Ever Ate
♦ 2020 – Chopped Sweets
♦ 2019 – Best Baker in America
♦ 2018 – Guy’s Ranch Kitchen
♦ 2017–2019 – Worst Cooks in America
♦ 2016–2017 – Cooks vs. Con
♦ 2016 – Burgers, Brew and ‘Que
♦ 2016 – Emeril’s Florida
♦ 2016 – All-Star Academy
♦ 2016 – Brunch at Bobby’s
♦ 2015–2017 – Chopped Junior
♦ 2015 – The Da Vinci List
♦ 2015 – Rachael Ray’s Kids Cook-Off
♦ 2015 – Christmas at Bobby’s
♦ 2014–Present – Beat Bobby Flay
♦ 2014–2016 – Chopped After Hours
♦ 2014 – Southern Fried Everything
♦ 2014 – Rewrapped