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Alexandra Guarnaschelli
Alexandra "Alex" Guarnaschelli is the executive chef at tion show Chopped and on Food Network’s series The Best
New York City’s Butter restaurant[1] and a television food Thing I Ever Ate.
personality.
Alex’s Day Off
Background Guarnaschelli stars in her own Food Network television
show, Alex’s Day Off[6] which premiered in October 2009
A Manhattan native, Guarnaschelli is the daughter of and airs regularly Saturday mornings.
cookbook editor Maria Guarnaschelli[2] and John Guar-
naschelli. She is a graduate of Horace Mann School and
Barnard College. Her culinary experience started while References
watching her mother test numerous recipes at home [1] Butter Restaurant site
while editing cookbooks. After becoming a chef, Guar- [2] Cookie mag.com
naschelli worked at a number of restaurants in France, [3] [1]
New York and Los Angeles, including Larry Forgione’s An [4] [2]
American Place and Guy Savoy’s La Butte Chaillot. She al- [5] The Cooking Loft
so worked at Daniel Boulud’s eponymous restaurant and [6] Show index
Joachim Splichal’s Patina before becoming the executive
chef at Butter.
She married Brandon Clark, a personal-injury lawyer External links
on April 29, 2007[3]. In September of that year, she gave • Food Network biography
birth to their daughter, Ava Simone[4]. • The Best Thing I Ever Ate index
• (http://newyork.metromix.com/restaurants/
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Guarnaschelli was a competitor on The Food Network’s story on Alexandra Guarnashelli]
Iron Chef America, taking on Cat Cora in the 2007 "Farmers’
Persondata
Market Battle." Cora won the challenge. Guarnaschelli
has since appeared as a judge on the program. In 2011 she Name Guarnaschelli, Alexandra
competed in the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef. Alternative names
In 2008, she became the host of The Food Network’s Short description
The Cooking Loft with Alex Guarnaschelli, in which the chef
Date of birth
teaches a small group of students how to construct new
variations of classic dishes.[5] Place of birth
Guarnaschelli has been a judge on Food Network’s Date of death
competition show Food Network Challenge, and frequently Place of death
appears as a judge on Food Network’s cooking competi-
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