Alex Guarnaschelli Biography
Alex Guarnaschelli is a television personality, cookbook author, and American chef. She is currently the senior chef at New York City’s Butter restaurant and was previously the executive chef at The Darby restaurant until it closed.
How old is Alex Guarnaschelli? – Age
She is 54 years old as of 20 June 2022. She was born in 1969 in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Her real name is Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli.
Alex Guarnaschelli Family – Education
Guarnaschelli is the only child of cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli and her husband, John Guarnaschelli. She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, but her family relocated to New York City when she was very young. Her interest in cooking began from seeing her mother test several dishes at home while editing cookbooks. She earned a bachelor’s degree in art history from Barnard College in 1991 after graduating from Horace Mann School in 1987.
Alex Guarnaschelli Wife – Children
Guarnaschelli married Brandon Clark on April 29, 2007. Alex was teaching a fish lesson at New York’s Institute of Culinary Education when the two met. Ava, their daughter, was born in July 2007. The couple divorced, and in June 2020, Guarnaschelli revealed her engagement to chef Michael Castellon, a Chopped winner who proposed to her on her birthday, June 19-20. The pair announced the breakup of their engagement in February 2022.
Alex Guarnaschelli Height
He has an estimated net worth of 5 feet and 0 inches(1.54 m).
How much does Alex Guarnaschelli make? – Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $2 Million.
Does Alex Guarnaschelli own any Restaurants?
For a year in 1991, she worked for minimal wage in a restaurant called An American Place. Guarnaschelli first worked with Iron Chef Marc Forgione’s father, Larry Forgione, and then in a number of restaurants in France, New York, and Los Angeles, including Guy Savoy’s La Butte Chaillot. Before becoming the chief chef at Butter, she worked at Daniel Boulud’s eponymous restaurant and Joachim Splichal’s Patina. She was the executive chef at The Darby before it closed. She is the Culinary Council Chair of the Museum of Food and Drink.
Alex Guarnaschelli Iron Chef
Guarnaschelli appeared on The Food Network’s Iron Chef America in 2007, competing against Cat Cora in the “Farmers’ Market Battle.” Cora triumphed in the challenge. Guarnaschelli has since been featured on the show as a judge. She competed in the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef in 2011, finishing as the third runner-up. She also appeared on the Food Network Challenge Ultimate Thanksgiving Feast program but lost. Guarnaschelli became Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian’s sous chef after competing in the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef.
She won the final Kitchen Stadium battle against chef Amanda Freitag in season 5 of The Next Iron Chef: Redemption. Her first Iron Chef competition on Iron Chef America aired on December 30, 2012. Guarnaschelli appeared in the Nickelodeon television show Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn’s one-hour special “Go Hollywood” on November 25, 2015, and again in the ABC television show The Real O’Neals’ episode “The Real Thanksgiving” on November 15, 2016.
She later appeared as a judge on Iron Chef Gauntlet episode five, where chef Gruenberg was eliminated before the final showdown in episode six “The Gauntlet,” and on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay, where she challenged Bobby with her signature lobster dish and also won that challenge.
Alex Guarnaschelli Career
She made a cameo appearance as herself in the ABC Family sitcom Young and Hungry’s season 5 finale. Her job offer to Emily Osment’s main character Gabi is the central plot point of the episode, which was cut short by the cancellation of the show and a planned film finale. She also starred alongside Anne Burrell as the captain of the Blue Team in the Showtime series Billions and as a mentor on season 20 of Worst Cooks in America. In the end, Alex was the mentor who won.
She debuted Alex vs. America, which aired on Food Network as well, in 2022. She became the host of The Cooking Loft with Alex Guarnaschelli on The Food Network in 2008, where the chef teaches a small group of students how to make new versions of classic dishes.
Guarnaschelli has served as a judge on Food Network’s competition show Food Network Challenge and frequently serves as a judge on Chopped and Cooks Vs. Food Network. Cons, Young and Hungry, and Guy’s Grocery Games, which had previously been featured on the Food show The Best Thing I Ever Ate. The Food Network show Alex’s Day Off, which premiered in October 2009, featured Guarnaschelli as a lead actress. It aired for 32 episodes over three seasons.