Adriano Zumbo Biography
Adriano Zumbo is an Australian pastry chef and television host. He opened his first patisserie in 2007 before becoming a regular on MasterChef Australia. Zumbo is the host of the Australian baking competition show Zumbo’s Just Desserts, as well as a judge on the Netflix web series Sugar Rush.
How old is Adriano Zumbo? – Age
He is 41 years old as of 6 November 2022. He was born in 1981 in Coonamble, Australia.
Adriano Zumbo Family – Education
Zumbo was raised in Coonamble, New South Wales, and was born to Italian parents Frank and Nancy Zumbo of Calabria. His parents ran the neighborhood IGA supermarket, where Zumbo honed his sweet taste and sharp business acumen. His early years were spent in Italy, where he developed a taste for many kinds of coffee, which is reflected in the culinary creations you can find in the various patisseries he owned in Sydney that are inspired by coffee.
Zumbo moved to Sydney in 1997 after finishing high school to begin his pastry chef apprenticeship. He worked under renowned culinary icons in Australia and France including Ramon Morato and Pierre Hermé.
Adriano Zumbo Wife
Zumbo began dating My Kitchen Rules contestant Nelly Riggio in 2017. The couple married on May 6, just 12 months after he proposed.
Adriano Zumbo Desserts
His layered cake was ranked eighth in Good Food’s 2016 top ten cult desserts in Sydney in June 2016. Zumbo co-hosted the Seven Network cooking show Zumbo’s Just Desserts with Rachel Khoo and Gigi Falanga in August 2016.
Adriano Zumbo Height
He stands at a height of 5 feet 9 inches(1.75 m).
Adriano Zumbo Masterchef
Zumbo has appeared in every season of Masterchef since season one when he set a croquembouche challenge. In his fifth appearance, in 2010, he challenged contestants to recreate his “tower of terror” macaron with raspberry-beetroot and black olive. Within three days of the episode airing, he had sold 5000 macarons at his Balmain shop, which was four times the normal rate. Zumbo’s vanilla V8 cake, which has layers of vanilla glaze, crème chantilly, water gel, macaron, brulee, chiffon, syrup, ganache, almond crunch, and almond dacquoise, was featured as a challenging dish in the 2010 season of Masterchef. The cake was created in honor of Margaret Fulton’s 85th birthday and was named after the eight vanilla textures. The same layered cake was ranked eighth in Good Food’s 2016 top ten cult desserts in Sydney in June 2016.
Adriano Zumbo Netflix
Zumbo appears as a judge alongside Candace Nelson in the 2018 Netflix series Sugar Rush, hosted by Hunter March. Sugar Rush is a Netflix-baking reality television series that premiered on July 13, 2018. The series features four professional teams of two competing in a baking competition for a prize of $10,000. In three rounds, teams of two bakers compete. The first round consists of cupcakes, the second of confections, and the third of the cake. Sugar Rush: Extra Sweet, the third season, is the series’ first spin-off season, in which if a team wins either a cupcake or confection challenge, they can choose between an additional 15-minute time in the final cake challenge or a $1,500 prize.
Adriano Zumbo Show
Zumbo is an Australian observational documentary television series following patissier Adriano Zumbo at his Balmain, Sydney kitchen business. The show debuted on February 10, 2011, and lasted six episodes. It aired on SBS One on Thursdays at 7:30 p.m.
Adriano’s signature dish is the macaron, and the first episode focused on the buildup to ‘Macaron Day,’ when the kitchen produces nearly 30,000 multicolored macarons. Episode 2 focused on Adriano’s new ‘Summer Collection,’ a collection of new creations presented at a runway show. Adriano returned to his hometown of Coonamble in Episode 3 to help cater for one of the year’s biggest events: his father’s 70th birthday.
Adriano Zumbo Cookbooks
Zumbo’s Fantastical Kitchen of Other-Worldly Delights, his first book, was published in 2011.
♦ 2011 – Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo’s fantastical kitchen of other-worldly delights. Murdoch Books (Sydney).
♦ 2012 – Zumbarons: a fantasy land of macarons. Murdoch Books (Crows Nest).
♦ 2015 – The Zumbo files: unlocking the secrets of a master patissier. Murdoch Books