Marcela Valladolid

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Marcela Valladolid
Marcela Valladolid at Chicago Sauza.jpg
Valladolid at a 2010 Sauza Tequila Chicago cooking night
Born
Marcela Luz Valladolid [1] [2]

(1978-07-19) July 19, 1978 (age 45) [3] [4] [5]
San Diego, California, [6] U.S.
Education Ritz Escoffier Cooking School
Los Angeles Culinary Institute
Children3
Culinary career
Cooking styleMexican
Television show(s)

Marcela Luz Valladolid (born July 19, 1978) is an American chef and author. She was the host of the Food Network television series Mexican Made Easy, and a judge on the Food Network series Best Baker in America . [7]

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Early life

Valladolid was born in San Diego, California. [8] [9] Her interest in pursuing a career as a chef was sparked when she began working at her Aunt Marcela's cooking school in Tijuana, Mexico. Valladolid graduated from the Los Angeles Culinary Institute as a "Certified cook" [10] and then moved to Paris, France, where she graduated as a classically trained pastry chef at the Ritz-Escoffier Cooking School. [11] [12]

She then returned to Tijuana and started her own catering company and taught cooking techniques to classes of 40 students out of her home there. [10]

Career

Valladolid joined the staff of Bon Appétit magazine as an editor and recipe stylist. She also competed on the 2005 series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart , in which she came in fourth place. [13]

Valladolid's first cooking show was Relatos con Sabor on Discovery en Español which aired in the United States and Latin America. In the series, she showed viewers how local Hispanic homes preserve and revive traditional recipes. [14]

Valladolid's first cookbook, Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor, debuted in August 2009 [15] and has since received positive reviews. [16]

Valladolid's second cooking show, Mexican Made Easy, debuted in January 2010 on the Food Network. Her second cookbook, Mexican Made Easy, was released in September 2011 as a companion book to the show. [17] Both Valladolid's book and the show, filmed in San Diego, were designed to show the world there is no "yellow cheese" in traditional Mexican cooking and that her Mexican culinary style can be done with "fresh flavor that fits all." [18]

Valladolid has also appeared in other Food Network shows. On Throwdown! with Bobby Flay she was a judge for a fish taco-themed competition. She and Flay teamed up to defeat Masaharu Morimoto and teammate Andrew Zimmern on a New Year's edition of Iron Chef America in 2012. Also in 2012, she competed in a celebrity version of Chopped in which she advanced to the final round and finished second (out of four competitors). In 2013, she served as a judge on Guy's Grocery Games.

Valladolid was one of two judges on the CBS reality TV cooking competition series The American Baking Competition .

On November 27, 2013, Valladolid was a guest model on the Thanksgiving episode of The Price Is Right , and long before that was a contestant in 2004 playing "That's Too Much", winning a car. [19]

In January 2014, Valladolid debuted as one of the co-hosts on Food Network's show The Kitchen . [20] and left the show in October 2017.

Personal life

She has a son named Fausto Gallardo (2004) with her ex-husband Fausto Gallardo, son David Button-Valladolid (2015) and daughter Anna Carina Button-Valladolid (2016) with her current husband Philip Button. [21]

In 2013, Valladolid had a brief affair with her The American Baking Competition co-host Paul Hollywood. Both Valladolid's and Hollywood's spouses subsequently divorced them due to this affair. Hollywood and his wife separated temporarily because of the affair before reconciling, but it was cited in news of their second separation in 2017. [22] [23] [24]

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References

  1. ↑ J-Dobbs [@jeffreydobson] (January 8, 2014). "@chefmarcela @middlenamegame nope. It's LUZ. Luz is her middle name" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. ↑ Valladolid, M. (2010). Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN   9780307885531 . Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  3. ↑ marcela valladolid [@chefmarcela] (July 20, 2013). "@djrey05 gracias!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. ↑ marcela valladolid [@chefmarcela] (July 20, 2013). "@PerryGorrell thank you!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ↑ marcela valladolid [@chefmarcela] (July 20, 2013). "@dannpp gracias oscar!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. ↑ "California Birth Index". californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  7. ↑ Personal site posting Archived 2010-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ↑ "San Diego News, Local, California and National News | UTSanDiego.com | Personal interview with San Diego Union Tribute". weblog.signonsandiego.com. Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
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  11. ↑ "Personal bio". Archived from the original on 12 March 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
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  14. ↑ "Relatos con Sabor". Archived from the original on 10 February 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
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  17. ↑ "Personal Website". Archived from the original on 12 March 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  18. ↑ Mexican Made Easy personal homepage Archived 2010-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  19. ↑ "Food Network Gossip: Watch Marcela Valladolid Win A Car on 'The Price Is Right' in 2004". foodnetworkgossip.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  20. ↑ "Food Network Gossip: Food Network's 'The Kitchen' - More Information About The Show". foodnetworkgossip.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  21. ↑ "Casamarcela".
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  24. ↑ "Great British Bake Off host Paul Hollywood and wife separate". Daily Telegraph . November 20, 2017.



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