Amanda Freitag
| Amanda Freitag | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 11, 1972 |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Chef, TV Judge |
| Known for | Unique Eats, Chopped, American Diner Revival |
Amanda Freitag (born May 11, 1972) is a New York chef and frequent guest on Food Network television programming. She is also a judge on the TV cooking competition Chopped and co-host, with Ty Pennington, of American Diner Revival.
Freitag was raised in Cedar Grove, New Jersey, and attended Cedar Grove High School (then known as Memorial High School), where a teacher suggested that Freitag might be interested in attending the Culinary Institute of America.
Following graduation from the Culinary Institute of America in 1989, Freitag took a position at Vong New York working under chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten. In 1994, she left Vong to cook at Verbena, under chef Diane Forley. After Verbena, Freitag traveled to France and Italy, working for a short while at L'Arpège restaurant under chef Alain Passard in 1999.
In 2003, Freitag and restaurateur Godfrey Polistina opened the Upper West Side restaurant Cesca Enoteca & Trattoria.
Freitag was chef de cuisine at Cesca, before moving to an executive chef position at The Harrison. On September 3, 2010, The New York Times reported that Freitag would be leaving the Harrison, and the restaurant's owner, Jimmy Bradley, will return as chef.
Freitag is a frequent judge on the culinary game show Chopped. She battled Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America in “Battle: King Crab”. She narrowly lost, with a score of 49 against Flay's 50 points. The judging was evenly matched, with the exception of Freitag having earned one point fewer in the "taste" category.
On October 16, 2009, Freitag appeared on the The Martha Stewart Show and demonstrated recipes for yogurt panna cotta and celery root and ginger gold apple soup.
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