Todd English

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Todd English
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English interviewed at the James Beard Foundation Awards 2010
Born
William Todd English

(1960-08-29) August 29, 1960 (age 62)
Amarillo, Texas
Alma mater Culinary Institute of America
Occupation(s)Restaurateur, celebrity chef, writer
SpouseOlivia Disch English (divorced)
Children3

William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality, based in Boston, Massachusetts. He hosted the TV cooking show, Food Trip with Todd English, on PBS. In 2005 he was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire .

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His life and career received a chapter in Super Chef by Juliette Rossant, who had written previously about English for the Forbes Celebrity 100 list. [1] Todd English also works as lead chef for Delta Air Lines (US). [2]

Early life and career

English was born in Amarillo, Texas, grew up in Sandy Springs, Georgia and later Branford, Connecticut. [3] He matriculated at Guilford College in North Carolina on a baseball scholarship but quit and entered the Culinary Institute of America in 1978 and graduated in 1982. [4] [5]

He worked under Jean-Jacques Rachou at New York's La Cote Basque, [4] and then moved to Italy to work at several restaurants there. [6] He returned to the United States at age 25 and served as the executive chef of the Italian restaurant Michela's in Cambridge, Massachusetts for three years before opening the original Olives restaurant in 1989. [4]

Personal life

English has been married once to Olivia Disch English, his classmate at the Culinary Institute of America, [4] but they divorced; the couple has three children. He was engaged to Erica Wang in 2009, but the wedding was called off. [7] [8] [9] [10]

Restaurants

Olives

English's first restaurant, Olives, opened in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston in April 1989. The restaurant's name is a tribute to his then-wife, Olivia. The food is "rustic Mediterranean," with a strong influence from Italian cuisine. The restaurant was named Best New Restaurant by Boston magazine and has been honored as Best Food and Top Table by Gourmet magazine. Olives is known for two signature desserts – a molten chocolate cake and a vanilla bean soufflé – which must be ordered with the main meal. The Health Department has cited Olives for sanitation discrepancies and animal waste hazards. [11]

In October 1998, Olives opened in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas; It closed in 2019.

In May 2010, Olives was closed due to damage done by a grease fire. [12] This was the third time the Charlestown eatery was closed due to fire damage since 2001. [12] [13]

In May 2012, the Charlestown Olives reopened. [14]

In June 2013, the Charlestown Olives closed for good. [15]

A second Olives was opened in 2001 at W New York - Union Square in Union Square, New York City, but was closed in 2015. [16]

In February 2013, Olives opened in Mexico City. The remaining Olives are the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas and the Ritz-Carlton Canal (hotel and resort) in Abu Dhabi.

In 2021, Olives opened in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas. [17]

Figs

Figs is the name of two pizzerias in the Boston area, one in the Beacon Hill neighborhood and another in Charlestown. Figs offers authentic Neapolitan-style pizzas with very thin crusts, served on inverted sheet pans, as well as salads and pastas. Figs won the "Hot Concept" award from Nation's Restaurant News magazine.

Other restaurants

English's other restaurants include:

Books

English has authored or co-authored four cookbooks: The Olives Table, The Figs Table, The Olives Dessert Table, with Sally Sampson, and Cooking in Everyday English, published by Simon & Schuster and Time Home Entertainment Inc.

Net Worth

The net worth of Todd English is $18.5 million, and he is the 9th highest-earning chef in the world as of 2020. [21]

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References

  1. ↑ Rossant, Juliette (March 19, 2001). "Todd English". Forbes. Retrieved May 30, 2011.
  2. ↑ Wharton, Rachel (October 5, 2007). "Plane chow gets an upgrade". NY Daily News. Retrieved January 21, 2018.
  3. ↑ Cf. Rossant (2004), p.91
  4. 1 2 3 4 Cf. Rossant (2004), p.95
  5. ↑ Atkinson, Kim, "Being Todd English" Archived December 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine , Boston magazine, May 2006
  6. ↑ "Great Chef Todd English", greatchefs.com
  7. ↑ Landman, Beth (October 11, 2009). "Inside Todd English's canceled wedding". New York Post . Archived from the original on January 31, 2013. Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  8. ↑ Keith, Amy Elisa (October 15, 2009). "Why Todd English Cancelled His Wedding". People Magazine . Retrieved February 15, 2010.
  9. ↑ Grace, Melissa, "'Top Chef' Todd English's ex-bride, Erica Wang, must take anger management classes and do community service if she wants assault charges dropped, a judge says.", The New York Daily News , January 14, 2010.
  10. ↑ Licata, Elizabeth (November 5, 2017). "Todd English accused of sexual harassment by waitress". Los Angeles Times.
  11. ↑ Traverso, Amy, "Reconsidering Todd English" Archived January 22, 2011, at the Wayback Machine , Boston magazine, March 2009
  12. 1 2 Shanahan, Mark (May 29, 2010). "Olives plagued by another grease fire". The Boston Globe.
  13. ↑ Shanahan, Mark; Goldstein, Meredith, "Licensing Board lights the fire under celebrity chef", The Boston Globe, July 1, 2011
  14. ↑ Shanahan, Mark; Goldstein, Meredith, "Todd English says new and improved Olives set to reopen – officially", Boston Globe, May 9, 2012
  15. ↑ "Has Olives Charlestown Closed? [Updated] - The Restaurant Hub - Boston.com". Boston.com.
  16. ↑ "Irvington Replaces Todd English's Olives NY". The Wall Street Journal. March 23, 2015.
  17. ↑ "Todd English's Olives".
  18. ↑ Seven Days Aboard the Queen Mary 2, by Dwight Garner, New York Times, February 10, 2013
  19. ↑ Moskin, Julia (August 17, 2010). "The Plaza Food Hall". The New York Times.
  20. ↑ "The Restaurant Formerly Known as Todd English Food Hall Has Been Revived and Refreshed".
  21. ↑ tingtopten (January 19, 2020). "Top 10 Highly Earning Chefs of the World in 2020". Ting Top Ten. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
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