Akis Petretzikis | |
---|---|
Born | Georgios Evlampios Petretzikis March 4, 1984 |
Education |
|
Culinary career | |
Cooking style |
|
Current restaurant(s) | |
Website | akispetretzikis |
Georgios Evlampios (Akis) Petretzikis (born 4 March 1984) is a Greek celebrity chef. He is the CEO of Akis Petretzikis Ltd, which publishes cooking magazines and books, produces cooking shows, runs restaurants, and has an e-shop with various kitchen products designed by himself.
Born and raised in Thessaloniki, he started working in his family's business at the age of 16 and moved to Athens at 18 to study accounting and finance while also attending culinary school. He worked in the UK for five years before returning to Greece to compete in and win the first season of the Greek version of The Master Chef TV show. [1] He has since hosted multiple cooking shows, including his own web series, Kitchen Lab and Akis’ Kitchen, and has collaborated with Fresh One Productions for Jamie Oliver's Food YouTube channel. [2] [3] [4]
After Petretzikis appeared on MEGA Channel's morning show To proino mou (My Μοrning) from 2010 to 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he hosted his own daily show Kan’ to opos o Akis (Do it like Akis). [5]
Akis Petretzikis is active in various social media, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Viber and Pinterest.
His followers can see his recipes on his YouTube channel through his weekly web show Kitchen Lab. For non-Greek speakers, Petretzikis also has an English YouTube channel (Akis Kitchen), where he uploads videos in English. In 2015, he started collaborating with Fresh One Productions uploading videos with Greek recipes in Jamie Oliver's Food Tube channel. Since then, Petretzikis is one of the 15 official affiliates of the network.
In 2017, Petretzikis published his book Piece of Cake. During the same year, he published his new self-titled magazine, a cooking magazine published by Attikes Publishing House. [6]
Jamie Trevor Oliver MBE OSI is an English celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He is known for his casual approach to cuisine, which has led him to front numerous television shows and open many restaurants.
A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become a celebrity. Today, chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations, usually through the media of television and radio, or in printed publications. While television is ultimately the primary way for a chef to become a celebrity, some have achieved this through success in the kitchen, cookbook publications, and achieving awards such as Michelin stars, while others are home cooks who won competitions. In South Korea, a celebrity chef is referred as a cheftainer.
Gennaro Contaldo OSI is an Italian chef known for his association with his British protégé, Jamie Oliver, and his partnership with fellow Italian chef Antonio Carluccio and their BBC Two television series Two Greedy Italians.
Katherine Lee is an American cookbook author, television food critic, chef and novelist born in West Virginia. She has worked in several restaurants and published two cookbooks. She served as a contributor to several magazines and TV shows, including Iron Chef America, an American cooking show competition, where she was a judge in 2007. She is a co-host of Food Network's talk show The Kitchen, and the host of Cooking Channel's Beach Bites with Katie Lee.
Ching-He Huang (Chinese: 黃瀞億; pinyin: Huáng Jìngyì; Wade–Giles: Huang2 Ching4-i4;, often known in English-language merely as Ching, is a Taiwanese-born British food writer and TV chef. She has appeared in a variety of television cooking programmes, and is the author of nine best-selling cookbooks. Ching is recognized as a foodie entrepreneur, having created her own food businesses. She has become known for Chinese cookery internationally through her TV programmes, books, noodle range, tableware range, and involvement in many campaigns and causes.
Benjamin O'Donoghue is an Australian chef.
Emeril John Lagasse III is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. He is of Portuguese descent on his mother's side, while being of French heritage through his father.
Tobie Puttock is an Australian celebrity chef, best known for his association with British chef Jamie Oliver.
The Best Thing I Ever Ate is a television series that originally aired on Food Network, debuting on June 22, 2009.
Donal Skehan is an Irish television personality, presenter, food writer, cook, photographer and former singer. He is known for his television appearances, cookbooks and YouTube channel.
Jack Bishop is an American celebrity chef and food author whose specialty is Italian cuisine and vegetarian cooking. He is the chief creative officer of America's Test Kitchen on PBS.
Barry Lewis is a British cook, author and founder of the YouTube channel, Barry Lewis, which, as of June 2023, has over 942,000 subscribers.
Diane Kochilas is a Greek American cookbook author, celebrity chef, and cooking school owner. She has appeared on numerous American television programs, including Throwdown! with Bobby Flay, Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern, The Today Show, PBS News Hour, and Martha Stewart. In Greece and Cyprus, Kochilas hosted the TV cooking show Τι Θα Φάμε Σήμερα Μαμά; on Alpha Channel and Sigma in Cyprus. She runs the Glorious Greek Kitchen Cooking School on the Blue-Zone Greek Island of Ikaria.
Babish Culinary Universe, formerly Binging with Babish, is a YouTube cooking channel created by American cook and filmmaker Andrew Rea that recreates recipes featured in film, television, and video games in the Binging with Babish series, as well as more traditional recipes in the Basics with Babish series. The first video in the series was uploaded on February 10, 2016.
Argiro Barbarigou is a Greek celebrity chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. She is also the Ambassador for the North and South Aegean, European Region of Gastronomy, Global Ambassador of Authentic Greek Cuisine. Argiro focuses on Greek cuisine.
Claire Saffitz is an American food writer, chef, and YouTube personality. Until mid-2020, she was a contributing editor at Bon Appétit magazine and starred in several series on the Bon Appétit YouTube channel, including Gourmet Makes, in which she created gourmet versions of popular snack foods by reverse engineering them. Since leaving the company, she has published two cookbooks, Dessert Person and What's for Dessert, which both became New York Times Best Sellers. She has continued work as a video host on her own YouTube channel and as a freelance recipe developer, including for New York Times Cooking.
Christopher Morocco is an American chef and YouTube personality. He is the test kitchen director at Bon Appétit and is known for his appearances in videos produced for the magazine's YouTube channel, most notably as the host of Reverse Engineering.
{{citation}}
: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)