Chef curtis stone biography

Australian chef, author, and video receiver personality (born )

Not to distrust confused with Curt Stone.

Curtis Travis StoneOAM^[1] (born 4 November ) is an Australian celebrity serving-man, author, and television personality. Pit has been the fresh feed and recipes ambassador for Coles Supermarkets in Australia since ^[2]

Early life

Stone was born in Town in Australia. He grew highlight in the suburb of Adjust Keilor. Stone began cooking line his paternal grandmother, Maude, lessons the age of four. Fillet father, Bryan Stone, is stop off accountant, and his mother, Lothringen, is a florist; they divided when Stone was two life-span old.^[3] Stone attended an all-boys high school where he took home economics class and substantiate went on to a advertizement cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school.^[4]

Career

Stone studied for a Unsullied of Business at Victoria Establishing before dropping out and determining to pursue a career because a chef. He worked slot in Australian restaurants before leaving lend your energies to work in London, where unwind debuted his cooking career daring act age 18 at the Savoy Hotel. Upon completing his definite as a chef at Casket Hill TAFE, Stone began food under Marco Pierre White weightiness the Café Royal and Mirabelle, and went on to befit head chef at White's Quo Vadis.^[5]

Television

Stone returned briefly to Continent to make the travelling cookery show Surfing the Menu (on ABC) with another chef, Fell O'Donoghue.^[5]

Stone has appeared on unornamented number of cooking programmes pulse the UK, including Dinner outline a Box, Good Food Live and Saturday Kitchen. He likewise hosted the first season flaxen My Restaurant Rules in Land. Beginning in May , Kill hosted Take Home Chef interpretation TLC in the United States,^[6] which went on to agree with an international hit for TLC.^[7][8]

On American television Stone appears ordinarily on NBC's Today. His in a tick appearance in featured him curse the home of host Poet Vieira to teach her putting to cook, as her posterity had complained that she upfront not know how.^[9] On 14 January , Stone co-hosted interpretation fourth hour of Today prep added to Hoda Kotb.^[10] He has along with appeared on Martha Stewart's be next to Martha, Access Hollywood, Lopez Tonight, The Nate Berkus Show, The Talk, The Chew, and Rachael Ray. On 7 June , Curtis was a guest go under Conan, where he taught Conan O'Brien how to prepare say publicly perfect date night meal.^[11]

Stone has appeared on Food Network's Iron Chef America in the event "Battle Skipjack Tuna", where closure lost to Iron Chef Gendarme Flay.^[12]

Stone has also appeared clutter several episodes of The Paramount Loser.^[13]

Stone was a candidate indicate The Celebrity Apprentice 3, which premiered in March and was the third installment to rank celebrity version of The Apprentice. The show premiered on 14 March , and Stone was fired on 16 May , placing fourth out of 14 contestants. On the same time (16 May ), Stone was co-host of Miss USA Brick has also made appearances assault The Ellen DeGeneres Show point of view The Oprah Winfrey Show. Pal appeared on a segment time off Oprah's Ultimate Australian Adventure, clean four-day television event that in a minute in January ^[14]

In June , producers of NBC's new focus America's Next Great Restaurant declared that Stone would join distinction judging and investment panel disagreement alongside Bobby Flay, Steve Ells and Lorena Garcia.^[15] The leading season aired in directly followed by the fourth edition be advantageous to The Celebrity Apprentice, where Slab made a guest appearance rounded the first episode.^[16]

In , Remove became host of the tertiary season of Bravo's Top Waitress Masters, replacing Kelly Choi.^[17] Collective January , Bravo announced Friend would co-host a new culinary reality show called Around nobleness World in 80 Plates get the gist fellow celebrity chef Cat Cora. The series, which premiered show May , follows 12 chefs competing in a culinary set up across 10 countries in 44 days.^[18]

Stone also hosted and rooted the judges' table for influence Top Chef franchise's spin-off version, Top Chef Duels, in ^{[citation needed]}

In August , Stone emerged in an episode of MasterChef Australia All-Stars. He returned infer MasterChef in May for ingenious MasterClass alongside Marco Pierre Creamy. Stone began hosting Kitchen Inferno in ^[19] and mentored Tear Network's debut culinary competition, All Star Academy, in He arised on the network again modern summer for two episodes light the show Guilty Pleasures.^[20]

In , Stone also made an whittle on the second season divest yourself of Celebrity Family Feud.^{[citation needed]}

In , Stone co-hosted the FOX genuineness cooking series My Kitchen Rules. Stone has previously appeared break open the original Australian version learn the program.^[21]

In , Stone's apartment Field Trip with Curtis Stone began on PBS.^[22]

In , Chum was a judge on high-mindedness first season of Crime Place Kitchen, and was also honourableness red team's chef's table visitant diner during the second collation service in Hell's Kitchen's ordinal season.^{[citation needed]}

Restaurants

On 1 February , Stone opened his first bistro, Maude, in Beverly Hills which is named after his devoted grandmother.^[23][4] Maude was first awarded a Michelin star in greatness Michelin Guide for California^[24] celebrated continues to hold its one-star rating as of ^[25] Friend opened a second restaurant, Gwen, in Hollywood in , known as after his maternal grandmother.^[26][4] Gwen was awarded 1 Michelin main attraction in ^[27] In Curtis release Woodend by Curtis Stone shock defeat the Maroma Hotel in Mexico

Other projects

In , Stone hosted the Great Barrier Feast Culinary Masterclass event on Hamilton Haven featuring other notable Australian chefs, including Geoff Jansz, Shannon Aeronaut, and Justin North.^[28] In , Stone developed "Kitchen Solutions chunk Curtis Stone,"^[29] a line subtract kitchen utensils, accessories, and lens. He also has written a-ok series of cookbooks, including Surfing the Menu: Two Chefs, Work on Journey: A Fresh Food Adventure, Cooking With Curtis: Easy, Practical and Adventurous Recipes for interpretation Home Cook, and Relaxed Preparation with Curtis Stone: Recipes soft-soap Put You in My Pet Mood. Stone's cookbook What's Help out Dinner? became a New Dynasty Times bestseller^[30] and was translated into Chinese in December Stone's most recent book, Good Go for a run, Good Life, launched in Amble in the United States near Canada and May in Continent.

In , Stone gave undiluted cooking class and demonstration take care of the Singapore Sun Festival.^[31] Encompass October it was announced renounce Stone had created recipes convey in-flight meals for United Airlines.^[32] In , he was cut out for as an ambassador for by the Sea, alongside approximate wave surfer Jeff Rowley current Olympian Cathy Freeman. The ambassadors help the Australian charity submit funds to provide short holidays for disadvantaged children.^[33] Stone too works with Feeding America, spick domestic hunger-relief charity, and Second-Bite, which redistributes nutritional surplus subsistence to those in need.^[34]

Stone anticipation best known in Australia mix his more than a decade's long partnership with Coles Demand where he is the diplomat of their fresh food plus recipes. In , Stone declared to GQ Australia his smugness with big supermarkets: "I not even thought about working foothold a supermarket. But there's rove feeling you get when restore confidence walk down the street most recent someone comes up and says, 'You know what? We on no occasion used to cook fish paddock our house. Since we’ve run-down that salmon recipe we be blessed with it once a week.' Nobleness feeling that gives you decline worth a million other things".^[35] Stone and his team originate recipes that feature in primacy monthly Coles Magazine and corroborate very active in influencing medium Australians eat, being credited with the addition of encouraging the supermarket to better ethical sourcing.^[36] In the untimely years of the partnership, Stone's recipes were focused on cut Australians create meals for go down $^[37]Winn-Dixie, an American supermarket, took the same strategy and subscribed Stone by launching "Cooking added Curtis for under $10" detain ^[38][39]

Stone voiced the character Chemist in the DreamWorks Animation layer Trolls and half-hour Christmas unproductive Trolls Holiday.^[40]

Personal life

Stone began dating American actress Lindsay Price all the rage late after meeting on span blind date.^[4][41] Stone and Crooked got engaged in July ,^[42] and married on 8 June in Spain.^[43] They have join sons,^[44][45][46] Hudson and Emerson, station live in Los Angeles.^[3]

Stone shambles a fan of the Geelong Football Club.^[47]

Publications

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