John Mitzewich

John Mitzewich

Education	AAS Culinary Arts/Chef Training
Award(s) won Tasty Award 2011 Best Home Chef in a Series
Official website
foodwishes.com

John Mitzewich (also known as "Chef John") is an American chef, video blogger and YouTube celebrity, who publishes instructional cooking videos on the video blog Food Wishes, as well as on a YouTube channel by the same name. He is a very popular cooking teacher on the internet, and his video recipes have had over 33 million views on YouTube. He also has authored a cookbook for Parragon Publishing entitled, "America's Family Favorites: The Best of Home Cooking".^[1] In 2011, he won the Taste TV Tasty Awards "Best Home Chef in a Series".^[2]

Career

John Mitzewich graduated from Paul Smith's College, New York, in 1983. He received an Associate of Applied Science Degree, with Honors, in Culinary Arts/Chef Training, and was also honored as the school's 1983 "Outstanding Chef Training Student.".^[3] He "held just about every position possible in the food industry" including Executive Sous Chef at the Carnelian Room, Sous Chef at Ryan's Café, and Garde Manger at the San Francisco Opera. Chef John was a Chef Instructor at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, CA. for five years before leaving to focus on teaching people to cook online.^[3]

YouTube

Although Mitzewich's blog is his central website for his recipes, he also has an accompanying YouTube channel. He currently has over 125,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel 'foodwishes'. Foodwishes is one of the foremost cooking channels on YouTube with more than 25,000,000 views. Mitzewich has a content partnership deal with YouTube.^[1] He has gained much of his popularity through his easy to follow recipes combined with his enjoyable humor.

References

1. ^ ^{a b} Stacy Fins (13 January 2011). "YouTube viewers turn chefs into unlikely stars". SFGate. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/01/13/MN3S1H3GJS.DTL. Retrieved 2 March 2011. 
2. ^ Jackie Burrell (9 February 2011). "YouTube foodie John Mitzewich embraces Valentine's Day". Mercurynews.com. http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-living/ci_17319582?nclick_check=1. Retrieved 2 March 2011. 
3. ^ ^{a b} http://americanfood.about.com/bio/John-Mitzewich-36296.htm

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