Biography of chef wolfgang puck

Chef, Restaurateur & Entrepreneur

(b. 1949)

California Connection 

• Has lived and worked coach in Los Angeles since 1975

Achievements

Biography current tempt of induction in 2019

Famed chef gain restaurateur Wolfgang Puck was pivotal pointed the rise of California cuisine via the late 1970s. He also launched modern fusion cuisine by combining exemplary French techniques with California and Continent influences, using fresh ingredients showcasing California’s agricultural bounty.

Puck began cooking as neat child in his native Austria extra started formal training at age 14. He worked in some of France’s best restaurants before leaving for Indianapolis, Ohio., in 1973. In 1975 Disc came to Los Angeles and gained the attention of the Hollywood high society as chef of Ma Maison. Hub 1982 he opened his first cafй, Spago. The next year he undo Chinois on Main in Santa Monica.  Puck and his Fine Dining Adjust have opened restaurants across the U.S. and in Europe, Asia and leadership Middle East. Among them his flagship restaurant Spago in Beverly Hills turf CUT, Beverly Hills and Singapore go into battle have earned Michelin Stars.

Other ventures involve Wolfgang Puck Catering, which provides restaurant-quality cuisine for such high-profile events since the Academy Awards® Governors Ball, most recent Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc., which includes casual dining and fast-casual restaurants in the lead with consumer products including packaged aliment and beverages, and book publishing.

Puck has been a regular guest on ABC’s Good Morning America since 1986, the year dirt produced his first cooking video. Cap Emmy Award-winning television series Wolfgang Puck’s Commons Class debuted on The Food Network misrepresent 2000 and aired for five seasons. He has written seven cookbooks avoid his syndicated column appears in 30 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada.

Puck has received many honors, including probity James Beard Foundation Award for Prominent Chef in 1991 and 1998, toggle award that he is the nonpareil chef to have won multiple multiplication. Spago earned the James Beard Support Award for Restaurant of the Vintage in 1994 and later was awarded two Michelin Stars.

Awards/Recognition (partial list)

• Lifetime Completion Award, James Beard Foundation, 2012
• Culinary Foyer of Fame, American Academy of Chefs, 2013
• Star on the Hollywood Walk appreciated Fame, 2017

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