Sunny Anderson

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Sunny Anderson
Born (1975-04-09) April 9, 1975 (age 49)
Lawton, Oklahoma, US
Culinary career
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Website http://www.sunnyanderson.com

Sunny Anderson (born April 9, 1975) is a Food Network personality. [1] She began hosting How'd That Get On My Plate? in July 2008. She also hosts the Food Network program Cooking for Real (beginning in April 2008), and served as co-host with Marc Istook of the Food Network program Gotta Get It (beginning in April 2007).

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Early life

Sunny Anderson was born in Lawton, Oklahoma, and grew up as an Army brat, which allowed her to travel the world (living in Germany and other places) and sample many local cuisines with her parents, who were food enthusiasts. [2] She attended Madison High School in San Antonio, Texas, and upon her graduation, she joined the United States Air Force in June 1993, where she earned the rank of Senior Airman and worked as a military radio host in Seoul, South Korea. She then worked for Air Force News Agency radio and television in San Antonio from 1993 to 1997. Anderson was honorably discharged from the Air Force in June 1997. She went to school in New Orleans at Loyola University. At age 19, Anderson was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. [3] in 2014, she teamed up with the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America to raise awareness of this disease. [4]

Career

Between 1995 and 2001, Anderson worked as a radio personality at KCJZ and KONO-FM in San Antonio, WYLD-FM and KUMX in Fort Polk, Louisiana, WJWZ in Montgomery, Alabama, and WDTJ in Detroit, Michigan.

Anderson settled in New York City in 2001 at the age of 26, and worked as a radio personality for HOT 97 (WQHT) in New York City from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005, she was the owner of Sunny's Delicious Dishes, a catering company based in Jersey City, New Jersey.

She first appeared on the Food Network in October 2005 (as a guest on the Emeril Live program) and began hosting How'd That Get On My Plate? in July 2008. She also hosts the Food Network program Cooking for Real (beginning in April 2008), and served as co-host with Marc Istook of the Food Network program Gotta Get It, beginning in April 2007.

In 2006 and 2007, she served as Food and Lifestyle Editor for Hip Hop Weekly magazine.

In January 2014, Anderson became a co-host on the Food Network's series The Kitchen along with Jeff Mauro, Katie Lee, Marcela Valladolid, and Geoffrey Zakarian. [5]

Anderson was a contender for the 44th Daytime Emmy Awards for the Outstanding Talk Show/Informative award with the cast of The Kitchen, but lost. [6]

Anderson has been a guest chef on several talk shows and morning news programs including The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America , The Early Show , The View , The Talk , as well as The Wendy Williams Show.

In 2022, Anderson hosted NFL Tailgate Takedown along with New England Patriots Hall-of-Famer Vince Wilfork. [7]

In October 2022 she hosted Season 3 of Outrageous Pumpkins on Food Network. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sunny Anderson Recipes". Food Network.
  2. ↑ "At the start of Pride Month, Sunny Anderson shares powerful message on solidarity". TODAY.com. 3 June 2020. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  3. ↑ "Food Network Star Sunny Anderson Opens Up About Ulcerative Colitis - ABC News". abcnews.go.com. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  4. ↑ "Food Network Star Sunny Anderson Opens Up About Ulcerative Colitis". ABC News. Retrieved 2021-06-13.
  5. ↑ "Food Network Gossip: Food Network's 'The Kitchen' - More Information About The Show". foodnetworkgossip.com. Retrieved 2015-04-13.
  6. ↑ "Daytime Emmy Awards (2017)". IMDb. Retrieved 2022-11-04.
  7. ↑ Maas, Jennifer (2022-11-28). "NFL, Food Network Team for Tailgate Competition Series Hosted by Sunny Anderson and Vince Wilfork (EXCLUSIVE)". Variety. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
  8. ↑ Sharma, Muskan (October 2022). "What time will Outrageous Pumpkins season 3 episode 1 air on Food Network? Release date, plot, and more details explored". www.sportskeeda.com.
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