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Amanda Freitag was born on May 11, 1972 in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. She is a famous culinary <a href="/biography/amanda-freitag">artist</a> and television personality.

Upbringing

Amanda she grew up with her family in New Jersey. Her immediate family consisted of her mother, Kathleen, her father Paul, and her two brothers Jason and Justin. She enjoyed cooking with her family because it was a time where they all able to bond. She learned how to cook from her parents and enjoyed finding out what made good food. While most kids were just happy to eat their food when it was yummy, Amanda wanted to know more. She wanted to know what ingredients were used. She wanted to know how the food was prepared. When something tasted delicious to her, she wanted to know what combination produced the result.

Cooking Teacher’s Advice

Amanda attended a public high school called Cedar Grove High School. While she was attending classes, a teacher of hers suggested that she might be interested in attending The Culinary Institute of America. During cooking class, the teacher noticed that Amanda had a stronger interest in the class than most of the other students. A lot of students saw cooking class as easy course. During junior and senior year, high school students had more room for electives. Most of their general education classes were completed but they still needed to fill out their schedule. Some students chose music, some students choose auto shop, and some students chose cooking class because of the appeal. Each class consisted of the teacher demonstrating how to make a dish and then the students would try to replicate the dish in different groups. Some students took it easy while their group members finished up the dish and just anticipated the end of the class when they would get to eat their creation.

Amanda was different from the other students. She was in the ear of her teacher a lot and would even stay after class to keep talking to the teacher while other students were happy that class was over. Her teacher recognized her talent but most importantly, she recognized Amanda’s passion. She felt Amanda would go far because of her drive and interest in the culinary arts. After graduating from high school, Amanda took her teacher’s advice and went to The Culinary Institute of America. She attended classes there until she graduated in 1989.

Work in the USA

After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Amanda was hired by a popular French-Taiwanese fusion restaurant. It was called The Vong and located in New York City, New York. She worked under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Georges_Vongerichten">Jean-Georges Vongerichten</a> during her time at that restaurant, which lasted until 1994. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Georges_Vongerichten">Vongerichten</a> is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Georges_Vongerichten">native</a> from France and owns many top restaurants in various cities across the world. He was a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Georges_Vongerichten">head cook</a> of Eden Rock and St Barths. He also has written various cookbooks. She left the Vong and went to work at the Verbena. There, she was under the mentorship of Diane Forley. Forley was the owner of the Verbena Restaurant and Courtyard Garden. Forley is an entrepreneur, innovative cook and is the leading chef in New American Cuisine.

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Work in Europe

Once she finished her time at the Verbena Restaurant and Courtyard Garden, Amanda traveled to Italy and France. She stayed in Paris, France for a short while. During her time there she worked at the L'Arpège, in 1999. The restaurant had received three Michelin Guide stars in 1996 and maintains them to this day. Apart from that, it was voted in 2011 to The S. Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurant list as the nineteenth best restaurant in the world. Amanda worked under the chef and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Passard">restaurant owner</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Passard">Alain Passard</a>.

Return to the USA

After her experience in Paris, she went back to the United States. In 2003, she entered into a partnership with restaurant consultant Godfrey Polistina and together they opened the Cesca Enoteca & Trattoria restaurant. The restaurant is located in the Upper West Side of New York City, New York. The establishment serves American-Italian food. She was chef de cuisine there. She left the Cesca and took a position at The Harrison after. At the seasonal modern American restaurant, she was an executive chef. She worked there until 2010 when the owner, Jimmy Bradley, returned to take his position as chef. Four years after, she took the position of executive chef at the Empire Diner in Manhattan, New York. The place was a vogue and retro diner restaurant. She worked there for only a year.

Television Career

Amanda became famous mostly because of her appearances on various TV shows. Her TV resume ranges from television chef to a reality show competitor. She appeared on the Martha Stewart Show in 2009. She was also a <a href="/biography/amanda-freitag">judge</a> for Chopped, a culinary game show, a year after her appearance on Martha Stewart Show.

She was a <a href="/biography/amanda-freitag">competitor</a> on Iron Chef during its second season. On the show, she lost against <a href="/biography/bobby-flay">Bobby Flay</a>. The competition on Iron Chef is intense because cooks are expected to churn out delicious dishes under a time limit. There was also challenges to spice things up and make things harder for the chefs. Sometimes they had to make a whole meal with just a single ingredient. Viewers loved the show because they were able to see how creative chefs could get. Cooking was finally seen as an art form because the chefs were able to display their skills. She returned to the show in 2012, during its fifth season. Once again, she lost and ended up in fourth place when she was defeated by <a href="/biography/alex-guarnaschelli">Alex Guarnaschelli</a>.

In 2015, she began hosting American Diner Revival on the Food Network alongside with <a href="/biography/ty-pennington">cohost</a> <a href="/biography/ty-pennington">Ty Pennington</a>. Amanda was able to have a strong TV career because of her experience as a chef around the world. TV producers and fans trusted her expertise because she had already proven herself in the real world as a top chef. Amanda’s net worth is currently about 3 million dollars.

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