Johnny Iuzzini Biography
Johnny Iuzzini is an American pastry chef, television personality, and cookbook author living in New York City. From 2001 to 2002, he was the executive pastry chef at Daniel, and from 2002 to 2011, he was the executive pastry chef at Jean Georges.
How old is Johnny Iuzzini? – Age
He is 48 years old as of 31 August 2022. He was born in 1974in New York, United States.
Johnny Iuzzini Family
Iuzzini was born and reared in New York’s Catskills region. His father worked as a plumbing and heating specialist, and his mother worked as a veterinarian assistant and wildlife rehabilitator.
Johnny Iuzzini Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $18 million.
Johnny Iuzzini Pastry chef
Iuzzini worked at Luxe alongside Lincoln Carson, a pastry chef, during his externship at the Culinary Institute of America. After that, Iuzzini and Carson got jobs for Francois Payard. During the following three and a half years, he dealt with all pastry stations at Daniel and turned into Payard’s nearby right hand. Iuzzini was chosen to be sous chef when Payard opened his Payard Pâtisserie and Bistro in 1997. He continued to work at Daniel.
While working as a stager at a number of the best patisseries in the country in 1998, Iuzzini studied the art of pastry making. He worked for Daniel Boulud for eight months before returning to New York to open Café Boulud with the new Daniel as Executive Sous Chef. Boulud elevated the 26-year-old Iuzzini to the position of Executive Pastry Chef in 2001.
Iuzzini was chosen by Jean-Georges Vongerichten to be Executive Pastry Chef at Restaurant Jean Georges in May 2002. Iuzzini was named the “Best Baked Good Gourmet specialist” by New York Magazine in 2002, selected for “Remarkable Cake Culinary Expert of the Year” assignment by the James Facial hair Establishment in 2003, and named one of the “Ten Best Baked Good Cooks in America” by Baked good Craftsmanship and Plan Magazine in 2003 and 2004. The James Beard Foundation honored Iuzzini with the title of Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year in 2006. As one of the “Tastemaking Chefs,” Forbes named him one of the “10 Most Influential Chefs in America” in 2007.
Johnny Iuzzini Cookbooks
In Dessert Fourplay, Iuzzini shares recipes inspired by Jean Georges’ after-dinner quartet performances. Sugar Rush, his second cookbook, was written for home cooks.
Johnny Iuzzini Top Chef
Iuzzini was cast as the top judge for the American reality competition show Top Chef: Just Desserts on the Bravo cable television network in September 2010. In 2011, the show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Reality Program. On October 23, 2014, he competed in Cutthroat Kitchen’s “Superstar Sabotage” contest.
Top Chef: Just Desserts is a reality competition show based in the United States that features pastry chefs competing in culinary tasks centered on pastries and desserts. The show is hosted by Gail Simmons and features judges such as Hubert Keller and Dannielle Kyrillos. It is produced by Magical Elves Productions and distributed by Bravo and Tiger Aspect USA.
Johnny Iuzzini Restaurant – Career
Iuzzini’s first restaurant work was as a part-time dishwasher at the nearby golf club after school. He was in his high school’s voc-tech culinary program at the time. Iuzzini won his first cooking award after placing second in a culinary competition in New York City. At the age of seventeen, he began his career as a garde manger in New York City, assisting Pastry Chef Eric Gouteyron at the latter’s restaurant.
He subsequently changed employment to work full-time as a pastry chef, establishing his career. He studied Baking and Pastry Arts at The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York, and graduated in 1994. Sugar Fueled, Inc, a pastry and culinary arts consultancy company founded by Iuzzini in 2011, does live demonstrations of pastry methods to audiences. He formed a collaboration with Le Méridien Hotels & Resorts in 2014.