Food is the great connector and a universal commonality. Get to know Katie’s guests through their experiences with food, favorite things they like to cook, childhood memories, and daily routines.
Katie Lee Biegel is the Emmy-nominated co-host of Food Network’s The Kitchen, now in its 37th season with over 500 episodes to date. Katie is an avid writer, the author of four best-selling cookbooks, It’s Not Complicated, Endless Summer, Everyday Occasions, and The Comfort Table, and also the novel Groundswell, which became a Hallmark movie that she executive produced and starred in. Her next Hallmark film is currently in development. Katie is the co-founder of Kind of Wild Wines, an organic, zero sugar wine with grape varietals sourced from all over the world. She is a longtime Revlon spokesperson and a board member for the Food Bank for New York City.
Katie splits her time between New York City and the Hamptons with her husband, Ryan, daughter, Iris, and their rescue dog, Gus. In her free time, she loves traveling, reading, and watching bingeable tv.
In this episode, Katie chats with her The Kitchen co-host and celebrated chef, Alex Guarnaschelli about her path to culinary stardom. Raised in NYC with a famous cookbook editor mom, Alex didn’t decide to be a chef until she took her mom’s advice to try working in a Manhattan restaurant for a couple of days. That experience turned into a lifelong passion, leading her to train in France for many years under legendary chef Guy Savoy. She shares how she made her Food Network dreams come true, what it’s like running Butter (her Manhattan hotspot for 23 years), cooking for celebrities like Prince, and opening her latest restaurant, Clara. Her best advice for aspiring chefs? Start at the bottom, work with grit, and always use yourself as your biggest inspiration.
Follow Alex @guarnaschelli.
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