Zac Young Biography
Zac Young is a pastry chef and television personality from the United States. He has appeared on several Food Network and Cooking Channel baking shows, most notably Top Chef: Just Desserts and Unique Sweets.
How old is Zac Young? – Age
He is 40 years old as of 18 November 2022. He was born in 1982 in Portland, Maine, United States.
Zac Young Family – Education
Jonathan and Susan Lebel Young gave birth to Zac. He wanted to learn to bake as a child because his vegan mother never baked cookies for him. Young was accepted to Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts after participating in community children’s theatre plays from third to eighth grade.
Zac Young Education
Young was accepted to Walnut Hill School for the Arts in Natick, Massachusetts, where he attended from third grade to eighth grade and took part in community children’s theatre productions. Before deciding that baking was his true passion, Young briefly worked as a costume designer. After that, in 2003, he made the move to New York City to enroll in the Institute of Culinary Education, from which he graduated in 2006.
Zac Young Partner
Young is openly gay.
Zac Young Net Worth
He has an estimated net worth of $5 Million.
Zac Young Career
Young worked at Bouchon Bakery under Sebastien Rouxel and Richard Capizzi after graduating from the Institute of Culinary Education. Later, he accepted a position as pastry chef at Butter. Young studied under Philippe Parc at Michel Cluizel and Philippe Givre at Valrhona in France. Young was promoted to the position of executive pastry chef in 2009 at Flex Mussels, which is located on the Upper East Side. There, he operated a seasonal pop-up donut shop in Grand Central Station.
In 2012, Young was hired as an executive pastry chef by David Burke Group, which later changed its name to Craveable Hospitality Group. Gian Martinez, Young and David Burke Fabrick’s pastry chef, created the PieCaken dessert in 2015. PieCaken is a dish of spice cake, pumpkin pie, and pecan pie that was originally intended to be sold by the slice in restaurants. The layers are held together with cinnamon buttercream and apple pie filling is on top. The piecaken was described as “a fusion of a pumpkin pie, a pecan pie, and an apple upside-down cake” by the Wall Street Journal.
Zac Young TV Shows
♦ 2017-2021 – Halloween Baking Championship
♦ 2017-2019 – Chopped
♦ 2017-2018 – Bakers vs. Fakers
♦ 2016-2020 – Beat Bobby Flay
♦ 2011-2017 – Unique Sweets
♦ 2010 – Top Chef: Just Desserts