Debra Ponzek Biography
Debra Ponzek is an Award-winning chef from the United States known for being the owner of Aux Délices restaurants in Connecticut. He won the James Beard Foundation Award for Rising Star Chef in 1992.
How old is Debra Ponzek? – Age
Ponzek is 59 years old as of August 26, 2020. She was born in 1961 in Morristown, New Jersey, United States.
Debra Ponzek Husband – Family
She together with her fellow chef Bobby Flay married in May 1991, after meeting in June that same year. The couple divorced in 1993 and she married Greg Addonizio, after moving to Connecticut. Ponzek was pregnant with her first child when they opened Aux Délices together. They have three children in total; their daughter Remy Addonizio, and their two sons Cole Addonizio and Gray Addonizio.
Debra Ponzek Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $30 million.
Debra Ponzek Aux Délices – Career
She graduated from the Culinary Institute of America in New York City and graduated in 1984 from the University of Boston but then dropped out of school to pursue her profession of cooking. Later, she will go back to the Institute to give the students the initial address in 2015. She was an extern worker in the Tarragon Tree Restaurant, Chatham, New Jersey and Toto Steakhouse, New Jersey. She has worked for several years.
After completing her degree, she started working as a sub-chef at Drew Nieporent’s Montrachet restaurant. Nieporent was an advertisement manager who saw her at Toto Steakhouse while she played. Nieporent was a marketing manager who had seen her at Toto Steakhouse while she was working.
For seven years, she was executive chef for Montrachet, where food critics of New York City lauded the restaurant. During the 1992 Rising Star Chef Award was presented to the James Beard Foundation. She appeared on the TV series “Great Chefs – Great Cities” and made three dishes. Ponzek left Montrachet in 1994. In Greenwich, Connecticut, he opened his own restaurant. Since then, she has grown to many locations and is conducting cooking classes in her central restaurant kitchen.
