17 Notable alumni of
Culinary Institute of America

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Culinary Institute of America is 1268th in the world, 458th in North America, and 430th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 17 notable alumni from Culinary Institute of America sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.

  1. Michael Paré

    Michael Paré
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1958-.. (age 66)
    Occupations
    film actormodeltelevision actorsingeractor
    Biography

    Michael Kevin Paré is an American actor. He is best known for his roles in the films Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), Streets of Fire (1984), and The Philadelphia Experiment (1984), and on the series Starhunter (2000–2004).

  2. Duff Goldman

    Duff Goldman
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman is an American businessman, pastry chef, television personality, and writer. He is the executive chef of the Baltimore-based Charm City Cakes shop, which was featured in the Food Network reality television show Ace of Cakes, and his second, Los Angeles–based, shop Charm City Cakes West, which is featured in Food Network's Duff Till Dawn and "Cake Masters" series. His work has also been featured on the Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Oprah, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Man v. Food, Buddy vs. Duff, Duff Takes the Cake, and Duff's Happy Fun Bake Time.

  3. Richard Blais

    Richard Blais
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1972-.. (age 52)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Richard Blais is an American chef, television personality, restaurateur, and author. He appeared on the reality show cooking show Top Chef, and is known for his take on classic American cuisine. Blais was the runner-up for the fourth season of Top Chef and returned several seasons later to win Top Chef: All-Stars.

  4. Maciej Kuroń

    Maciej Kuroń
    Born in
    Poland Flag Poland
    Years
    1960-2008 (aged 48)
    Occupations
    cookjournalist
    Biography

    Maciej Kuroń, was a Polish journalist and culinary publicist. He was a host of television culinary shows, which made him very popular in Poland. He was the son of Jacek Kuroń.

  5. Michael Chiarello

    Michael Chiarello
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1962-2023 (aged 61)
    Occupations
    cheftelevision celebrity chef
    Biography

    Michael Chiarello was an American celebrity chef who was known for Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosted the cooking show Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello on Food Network and NapaStyle on Fine Living Network. Chiarello owned a winery called Chiarello Family Vineyards, located in Yountville, CA. He was the owner of a tapas restaurant named Coqueta and an Italian restaurant named Bottega and has locations in Napa Valley, California and San Francisco, California. Chiarello also owned NapaStyle in Yountville, CA, which sold a selection of exclusive drinkware, serverware, and designer tabletop pieces but however closed on January 4, 2016. He was a competitor on the fourth season of The Next Iron Chef. In the spring of 2013, Chiarello opened a tapas restaurant named Coqueta on San Francisco's waterfront. In March 2016, two former employees of Coqueta filed lawsuits alleging sexual harassment and labor law violations against Michael Chiarello and his restaurant group Gruppo Chiarello; the sexual harassment lawsuit was settled in 2017.

  6. Michael Smith

    Michael Smith
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1966-.. (age 58)
    Occupations
    cooktelevision presenterrestaurateur
    Biography

    Michael Dixon Smith is an American-born Canadian chef and cookbook writer. He has hosted The Inn Chef, Chef at Home, and judged on Chopped: Canada on the Canadian Food Network. Smith is Prince Edward Island's Food Ambassador, a nutritional activist, and an advocate for sustainable home cooking and farm-to-table cuisine.

  7. Johnny Iuzzini

    Johnny Iuzzini
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1974-.. (age 50)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Johnny Iuzzini /u-zee-nee/ is a New York City-based American pastry chef, television celebrity, and cookbook author. He served as executive pastry chef at Daniel from 2001 through 2002 and at Jean Georges from 2002 through 2011. Iuzzini is the author of two cookbooks and was a judge on the first three seasons of The Great American Baking Show. On November 29, 2017, Iuzzini was accused of sexual harassment by four former employees and the third season of The Great American Baking Show was pulled after one episode.

  8. Ilan Hall

    Ilan Hall
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1982-.. (age 42)
    Occupations
    television personalitychefrestaurateur
    Biography

    Ilan D. Hall is an American chef, television personality, and restaurateur. He won the second season of Top Chef, and is owner-chef of Ramen Hood in Los Angeles.

  9. Spike Mendelsohn

    Spike Mendelsohn
    Born in
    Canada Flag Canada
    Years
    1980-.. (age 44)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Evangelos Spiros "Spike" Mendelsohn is a Washington, D.C.-based chef and restaurateur best known as the fifth-place finisher of the fourth season of Top Chef, which aired 2008–2009. He is the chef and owner of multiple restaurants: Good Stuff Eatery, Santa Rosa Taqueria, and We, The Pizza in Washington, D.C. In the summer of 2017, Mendelsohn closed his restaurant Béarnaise in Washington's Capitol Hill and opened Santa Rosa Taqueria in its place. In 2019, Mendelsohn opened PLNT Burger, a vegan restaurant featuring Beyond Meat, inside Whole Foods Market in Silver Spring, Maryland.

  10. Larry Forgione

    Larry Forgione
    Years
    1952-.. (age 72)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Larry Forgione is a chef in the United States. He is known for his work at the An American Place restaurant in New York City and several notable chefs apprenticed with him (including Christina Machamer, David Shalleck, Melissa Kelly and Alexandra Guarnaschelli). His son, Marc Forgione, has his own restaurant and competes on Iron Chef America.

  11. Francis Lam

    Francis Lam
    Occupations
    writerfood writercolumnistradio personalityeditor-in-chief
    Biography

    Francis Lam is an American food journalist, cookbook editor, and since 2017 the host of American Public Media's The Splendid Table.

  12. Gabe Kennedy

    Gabe Kennedy
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1990-.. (age 34)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Gabriel Kennedy is an American businessman, chef, and TV host. He is the co-founder of Plant People, a cannabis company.

  13. Alfred Portale

    Alfred Portale
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1954-.. (age 70)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Alfred Portale is an American chef, author, and restaurateur known as a pioneer in the New American cuisine movement.

  14. Brandon Chrostowski

    Brandon Chrostowski
    Occupations
    cook
    Biography

    Brandon Chrostowski is an American chef, restaurateur, and politician currently residing in Cleveland, Ohio. He is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of EDWINS Leadership and Restaurant Institute, a 501(3) non-profit organization that acts as both a French restaurant and a culinary institute located in Cleveland's Shaker Square. It trains and is staffed largely by former prison inmates and was the subject of the 2017 Academy Award-nominated documentary short, Knife Skills. Chrostowski is also a certified sommelier and a fromager. He ran for mayor of Cleveland in 2017.

  15. Rob Zerban

    Rob Zerban
    Biography

    Rob Zerban is an American entrepreneur, former Kenosha County Supervisor, and Congressional candidate. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Zerban's campaign for the United States House of Representatives in 2012 and 2014 largely focused on protecting Social Security and Medicare, his experience running two businesses, and bringing green industry to Wisconsin's 1st congressional district. Zerban is active in national, state and local politics.

  16. Tina Pickett

    Tina Pickett
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1943-.. (age 81)
    Occupations
    politician
    Biography

    Tina L. Pickett is a Republican member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives who was elected in 2000 to represent the 110th District, which includes Bradford (part) and Wyoming counties.

  17. Joseph Johnson

    Joseph Johnson
    Born in
    United States Flag United States
    Years
    1984-.. (age 40)
    Occupations
    chef
    Biography

    Joseph Johnson is an American chef and author best known for cooking the food of the African diaspora. He is the 2019 recipient of a James Beard Foundation Book Award, which he received for Between Harlem and Heaven, co-authored with Alexander Smalls.