Jack Bishop

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Jack Bishop
SpouseLauren Chattman
Culinary career
Cooking styleItalian
Television show(s)
  • America’s Test Kitchen (PBS)
    Cook’s Country (PBS)
    The Today Show (NBC)

Jack Bishop is an American celebrity chef and food author whose specialty is Italian cuisine and vegetarian cooking. [1] He is the chief creative officer [2] of America's Test Kitchen on PBS.

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Personal life

Bishop studied cooking in Florence, Italy. [3] He graduated from Mountain Lakes High School, New Jersey and considers Mountain Lakes his hometown. [4] [5] His mother first taught him to cook at home when he was 12 years old, as she worked late hours and his father was not a very good cook. [5] He lives in Sag Harbor, New York, with his food-writer wife Lauren Chattman and their two daughters. [6] Bishop is a decade-long member of his local community farm. [7]

Career

In 1988, Jack Bishop started working at Cook's Magazine and collaborated on the launch of Cook's Illustrated in 1993. During his tenure with Cook's, he established tasting conventions later used at America's Test Kitchen. Bishop edited The Best Recipe (1999), co-directed Cook's Country magazine in 2005, and became a cast member of America’s Test Kitchen and Cook’s Country on PBS, hosting the Testing Lab segments and serving as an executive producer. Jack also regularly appears on Today (NBC). A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen was nominated for a James Beard Foundation Award (Vegetarian) in 2005. [8]

Cookbooks

Television

References

  1. "My Vegetable Story: Why Jack Bishop Believes Vegetarian Cooking is for Everyone". americastestkitchen.com. Retrieved 22 March 2023.
  2. Staff, Meredith Goldstein Globe (2015). "Jack Bishop named chief creative officer of Brookline's America's Test Kitchen - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com.
  3. "Ask the Test Kitchen with Jack Bishop and Julia Collin Davison". www.youtube.com.
  4. Palazzi, Jack (2020-09-14). "Laker in the Spotlight: Jack Bishop". Mountain Lakes Alumni Association. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  5. 1 2 America's Test Kitchen (Firm) (22 October 2019). "Cast Confidential". America's Test Kitchen twentieth anniversary TV show cookbook : best-ever recipes from the most successful cooking show on TV. Boston, MA. ISBN   978-1-945256-88-2. OCLC   1122615860.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. Amazon BIO| Feb 2012
  7. "America' Test Kitchen Profile| Feb 2012". Archived from the original on 2012-01-25. Retrieved 2012-02-04.
  8. Search Past Winners: James Beard Awards
  9. Lasagna. McGraw-Hill. 1994. p. 144. ISBN   978-0-8092-3699-2.
  10. Something Sweet. Simon & Schuster. 1995. p. 96. ISBN   978-0-684-80187-2.
  11. The Complete Italian Vegetarian Cookbook: 350 Essential Recipes for Inspired Everyday Eating. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 1997. pp.  568. ISBN   978-1-57630-044-2.
  12. Pasta e Verdura: 140 Vegetable Sauces for Spaghetti, Fusilli, Rigatoni, and All Other Noodles. William Morrow Cookbooks. 2000. pp.  336. ISBN   978-0-06-093245-9.
  13. Vegetables Every Day: The Definitive Guide to Buying and Cooking Today's Produce With More Than 350 Recipes. William Morrow Cookbooks. 2001. pp.  416. ISBN   978-0-06-019221-1.
  14. Casella, Cesare; Bishop, Jack (2002). Italian Cooking Essentials for Dummies. Running Press Book Publishers. p. 127. ISBN   978-0-7624-1397-3.
  15. A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen: Easy Seasonal Dishes for Family and Friends. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. 2004. p. 480. ISBN   978-0-618-23997-9.