Geoffrey Zakarian
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Zakarian at the 2012 New York Comic Con
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July 25, 1959 Worcester, Massachusetts, United States |
| Education | Worcester State University |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret Anne Williams (m. 2005) |
| Children | 3 |
| Website | www |
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Geoffrey Zakarian (born July 25, 1959) is an American Iron Chef, restaurateur, television personality and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City and Miami. He is featured on several television programs on the Food Network, including Chopped and in 2011, The Next Iron Chef, where he won the right to join Iron Chef America.
Zakarian was born 1959 in Worcester, Massachusetts, to an Armenian-American father, musician George Zakarian, and a Polish-American mother, Viola (née Hekowicz). He has a sister, Virginia, and brother, George. He graduated from Burncoat High School in 1977. He earned a degree in economics from Worcester State University, and then went to France, where he decided to be a chef. He began his culinary career with an associate degree from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.
As an apprentice chef, he began his work under chef Daniel Boulud at Le Cirque, where he was named "Chef de Cuisine" from 1982 to 1987.
In 1990, he became the executive chef at 44, a restaurant described by The New York Times as "trendy" and "chic," located at the Royalton Hotel in midtown Manhattan. William Grimes, also of The New York Times, described Zakarian as "... the reason that 44 in the Royalton Hotel was always a lot better than it needed to be" in 2001. Previously, in 1992, 44 had received only 2 stars from The New York Times columnist Bryan Miller.
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