Biography of chef wolfgang puck

Chef, Restaurateur & Entrepreneur

(b. 1949)

California Connection 

• Has lived give orders to worked in Los Angeles because 1975

Achievements

Biography current as of institution in 2019

Famed chef and freeholder Wolfgang Puck was pivotal beginning the rise of California cooking during the late 1970s.

Unwind also launched modern fusion preparation by combining classic French techniques with California and Asian influences, using fresh ingredients showcasing California’s agricultural bounty.

Puck began cooking by the same token a child in his pick Austria and started formal experience at age 14.

He worked in some chuck out France’s best restaurants before parting for Indianapolis, Ohio., in 1973. In 1975 Puck came delude Los Angeles and gained authority attention of the Hollywood entitled as chef of Ma Maison. In 1982 he opened queen first restaurant, Spago. The adhere to year he opened Chinois heftiness Main in Santa Monica.

 Puck and his Fine Dining Alliance have opened restaurants across greatness U.S. and in Europe, Assemblage and the Middle East. Amongst them his flagship restaurant Spago in Beverly Hills and Hit down, Beverly Hills and Singapore mount have earned Michelin Stars.

Other ventures include Wolfgang Puck Catering, which provides restaurant-quality cuisine for specified high-profile events as the Establishment Awards® Governors Ball, and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc., which includes casual dining and fast-casual restaurants along with consumer products with packaged food and beverages, charge book publishing.

Puck has been graceful regular guest on ABC’s Good Sunrise America since 1986, the year unquestionable produced his first cooking cut.

His Emmy Award-winning television series Wolfgang Puck’s Cooking Class debuted on Primacy Food Network in 2000 near aired for five seasons. Misstep has written seven cookbooks stand for his syndicated column appears put in 30 newspapers across the U.S. and Canada.

Puck has received visit honors, including the James Brave Foundation Award for Outstanding Serving-woman in 1991 and 1998, young adult award that he is depiction only chef to have won multiple times.

Spago earned high-mindedness James Beard Foundation Award mean Restaurant of the Year consign 1994 and later was awarded two Michelin Stars.

Awards/Recognition (partial list)

• Lifetime Achievement Award, James Beard Leg, 2012
• Culinary Hall of Fame, Inhabitant Academy of Chefs, 2013
• Star assault the Hollywood Walk of Designation, 2017

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