

Last year, The Food Network gave Guarnaschelli a new show to host, Supermarket Stakeout. ‘Supermarket Stakeout’ lukewarm receptionĪlex Guarnaschelli Can’t Live Without Her Favorite $5 Kitchen Tool Though not walking away as a champion of either competition, producers at The Food Network were noticing Guarnaschelli more and more, and her appearances on other Food Network shows such as Chopped, Guy’s Grocery Games, and Beat Bobby Flay increased incrementally, and now she’s a very regular sight on many shows on the network. Eventually, she would return to competition in 2011, finishing 4th on The Next Iron Chef and competing in the Food Network Challenge‘s Thanksgiving episode.

Though she lost the competition, over the next few years she appeared sporadically on the program as a guest judge and in 2008 was given her own show: Cooking Loft with Alex Guarnaschelli where she teaches small groups of students how to reinvent old classic recipes. Her career would dramatically change, however, after a 2007 appearance on Iron Chef: America on The Food Network. Guarnaschelli was successful in high-end restaurants with novel yet sensible menus and repeatedly demonstrating that she was among the top of the industry in recipe creation and leading her team of chefs. Alex Guarnaschelli, Food Network celebrity chef After earning an art history degree from Barnard College in New York, she would mostly find work in restaurants, eventually attending the prestigious La Varenne Cooking School in Burgundy, France.įrom there she worked her way up in restaurants across the world, cooking for many notable chefs, before eventually working her way up to the role of executive chef at the very exclusive Butter in Manhattan. The daughter of a cookbook editor, she grew up helping her mother test recipe after recipe for work. Guarnaschelli was culinarily inclined from an early age. Since she was such a familiar face on the network’s programming, why are some fans upset and confused about why she got her own show? Who is Alex Guarnaschelli? Chef Alex Guarnaschelli | Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for NYCWFF That’s far from Guarnaschelli’s only contribution to The Food Network, however, and since the debut of her new show Supermarket Stakeout she’s certainly stepped into the celebrity chef limelight a bit more than she was as a seemingly perpetual “guest judge.” Most Food Network enthusiasts will recognize her from her role as a regular judge on the Food Network staple Chopped. Since her 2007 appearance on Iron Chef America, she has been a guest judge, host, and general member of the rotating food network chefs that work throughout the network. Alex Guarnaschelli has been a regular fixture on The Food Network for a long time.
