Marc Murphy (chef)

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Marc Murphy
Born1969 (age 54–55)
Milan, Italy
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Institute of Culinary Education
Occupation(s)Chef, restaurateur, TV personality

Marc Murphy (born c. 1969 in Milan, Italy) is an American executive chef, restaurateur and television food personality. [1] [2]

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Early career

Murphy graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1988 and attended school at the Institute of Culinary Education in New York. [3] He began his culinary career as a line cook at Prix Fixe in New York. By the mid-1990s, he was a sous-chef at Layla in New York and in 1996, became the executive chef at Cellar in the Sky, also in New York. [4] From 1997 to 2000, he was the co-owner and executive chef of La Fourchette. In 2000, he also became the executive chef at Chinoiserie as well as the partner and co-owner of Le Couteau.

Restaurants

In March 2004, Murphy opened his first solo enterprise, Landmarc, in Tribeca. Over the next fifteen years, his restaurants expanded to include: Ditch Plains in the West Village (2006), Landmarc in the Time Warner Center (2007-2019), Kingside at the Viceroy Hotel (2003) and Grey Salt at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tampa in 2015. [5] In 2019 it was announced he'd partner with Levent Veziroglu for Grisini Food Hall and Coffee Shops at New Jersey's American Dream. [6]

Media

Murphy has served in a regular role as a judge on Chopped , and has made appearances on Iron Chef America , Guy's Grocery Games , Beat Bobby Flay , Unique Eats , The Best Thing I Ever Ate , The Best Thing I Ever Made , Rachael Ray and Today , among others. He is the president of the Manhattan chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association. In 2012, Murphy joined the United States Department of State's Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, where he takes part in public diplomacy programs that engage foreign audiences abroad as well as those visiting the United States. [7] Murphy's debut cookbook, Season with Authority: Confident Home Cooking was released in April 2015.

He launched a podcast, Food 360 with Marc Murphy on June 6, 2019, in collaboration with HowStuffWorks. [8]

Personal life

The son of a "globetrotting" diplomat, Murphy lived all over the world before the age of 12, in cities such as Milan, Paris, Rome, Genoa, and Washington, D.C.. He says this served as an excellent education in French and Italian cooking. [9] [10] He opened his restaurant with his wife Pamela Schein, [11] and resides with her and their two children, in New York City. [12]

In a question and answer interview with The New York Times , Murphy has also attributed his cooking influences to his mother and grandparents, as he has recounted experiences of enjoying leg of lamb and ratatouille in the south of France. He has also credited French chef Jean-Louis Palladin's first cookbook for having the biggest impact on him, as well as the "strength" and "leadership" of Winston Churchill's My Early Life . [1]

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  1. 1 2 Braun, Frank (October 23, 2006). "Q & A: Mark Murphy". The New York Times . Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  2. ↑ "Guy's Superstar Grocery Games: Part 1" Guy's Grocery Games. Food Network. First broadcast 28 August 2016.
  3. ↑ "Alumni Hall of Achievement". The Institute of Culinary Education. ICE.
  4. ↑ "Marc Murphy". Chef DB.com. 2010. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  5. ↑ Landman, Beth (April 23, 2019). "'Chopped' Judge Marc Murphy Is Closing His Final NYC Restaurant". Eater NY. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  6. ↑ Jongsma, Joshua (October 11, 2019). "Celebrity chef Marc Murphy to open food hall at American Dream". North Jersey Media Group. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  7. ↑ "U.S. Department of State to Launch Diplomatic Culinary Partnership". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  8. ↑ "iHeart Serves Up Food Podcast Featuring TV Chef Marc Murphy". Insideradio.com. June 14, 2019. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  9. ↑ Sabino, Catherine (July 6, 2016). "Haute Secrets: Celebrity Chef Marc Murphy". hauteliving.com. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
  10. ↑ "Marc Murphy". marc-murphy.com. 2009. Retrieved August 14, 2010.
  11. ↑ "Marc Murphy Wife: Who is Pamela Schein Murphy". April 23, 2023.
  12. ↑ Copage, Eric V. (July 28, 2015). "Marc Murphy of 'Chopped' and Wife Pamela Don't Let Food Talk Get in the Way". The New York Times. Retrieved April 7, 2021.
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