American chef
Wayne Harley Brachman | |
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Born | 1947 |
Culinary career | |
Cooking style | Retro small, Southwestern deserts, Ashkenazi cuisine, Northeastern European cuisine, Jewish cuisine |
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Wayne Harley Brachman is an American aliment chef, cookbook author and overseer host.[1][2] He is most become public to audiences as one disagree with the rotating co-hosts on honourableness Food Network show Melting Saucepan, which aired in the awkward 2000s and featured two chefs per episode cooking foods single to their cultural and traditional backgrounds.[3] Brachman's segments were co-hosted with Michael Symon.[4] Brachman actor upon his Jewish heritage be first Symon cooked family recipes free yourself of his Romanian grandfather during their segments which were classified sort Eastern European according to dignity show's categories.[5] Brachman also oftentimes appeared as a guest co-host on Sweet Dreams, a Refreshment Network dessert show hosted harsh Gale Gand.[6] He also pretentious as a spokesman for Hass Avocados from Mexico in greatness mid-to-late 2000s.[7][8]
Before becoming unadulterated pastry chef, Brachman worked gorilla a junior high orchestra teacher.[citation needed] Brachman was offered fulfil first pastry job in clean up Massachusetts restaurant that had reasonable lost its chef.
A utterly self-taught chef, Wayne has not in any degree taken any cooking classes faint apprenticed under another chef.[citation needed]
After learning his trade in Colony, he landed a job inspect New York City as grandeur pastry chef at The Odeon before going on to industry at Arizona 206.
Wayne proof teamed up with Bobby Flog, becoming the executive pastry servant at Mesa Grill and Tie during the 1990s.[9][10]
His first chick Isabella was born while explicit was working at Mesa Restaurant. His second daughter Violet was born 3 years later.[11] Lasting this period in the Decade, Brachman published his first reference, Cakes and Cowpokes in 1995, which explores Southwestern desserts.
Generous this time, Wayne began emergence in local media to reverse his book.[12]
In 1998, Chocolatier Paper named him one of honourableness "Best 10 Pastry Chefs".[13] Welcome 2000, Brachman published his specially book, Retro Desserts, which takes a look back at essential American favorites.[14]
In the late Decennary, while still working as greatness Executive Pastry Chef at Flay's Mesa Grill, Brachman joined Gendarme Flay as one of Feed Network's burgeoning line-up of Leading man or lady chefs and professionals during position height of the network's instructional-based format of the early 2000s before the network's later transfer to more general travel significant competition-based food content.[15][16]Michael Symon, Brachman's co-host at Food Network, credits Brachman for introducing him fall foul of Bobby Flay, who later became Symon's mentor at Food Network.[17]
Brachman published two more books establish the early 2000s, American Desserts (2003) and See Dad Cook (2005).
The latter book was dedicated to his daughters extremity featured some of their school-age lunchbox favorites as well primate basic recipes aimed at devising cooking more accessible to leadership growing number of men commons for their families.[18][19] Following king departure from Food Network's principal line-up and a stint presume FireBird restaurant, Brachman began functioning freelance in the New Dynasty City area.
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Since grandeur mid-2000s, Brachman has appeared injure food commercials, as a proponent for food-related products and finished appearances in local media importance well as continuing to stamp sporadic appearances as a patron judge and commentator on several Food Network competition and hoof it shows.[20]
As of the 2020s, Brachman continues to work as well-organized pastry chef at Porter Home New York.[21]
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"Iron chef Michael Symon had to change his small hole about food in order strike heal himself". Salon. Retrieved 2024-09-29.
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