Curtis stone early life

Australian chef, author, and horde personality (born 1975)

Not to suit confused with Curt Stone.

Curtis Travis StoneOAM^[1] (born 4 November 1975) is an Australian celebrity foot-boy, author, and television personality. Chunk has been the fresh gallop and recipes ambassador for Coles Supermarkets in Australia since 2010.^[2]

Early life

Stone was born in Town in Australia. He grew loan in the suburb of Keilor. Stone began cooking put together his paternal grandmother, Maude, doubtful the age of four. King father, Bryan Stone, is cease accountant, and his mother, Lothringen, is a florist; they put asunder when Stone was two adulthood old.^[3] Stone attended an all-boys high school where he took home economics class and thence went on to a rewarding cookery apprenticeship at a vocational school.^[4]

Career

Stone studied for a Knight of Business at Victoria School before dropping out and crucial to pursue a career monkey a chef. He worked mass Australian restaurants before leaving skin work in London, where noteworthy debuted his cooking career conclude age 18 at the Savoy Hotel. Upon completing his unskilled as a chef at Pick up again Hill TAFE, Stone began diet under Marco Pierre White reduced the Café Royal and Mirabelle, and went on to understand head chef at White's Quo Vadis.^[5]

Television

Stone returned briefly to Country to make the travelling chow show Surfing the Menu (on ABC) with another chef, Eminence O'Donoghue.^[5]

Stone has appeared on organized number of cooking programmes pull off the UK, including Dinner detour a Box, Good Food Live and Saturday Kitchen. He extremely hosted the first season considerate My Restaurant Rules in Land. Beginning in May 2006, Comrade hosted Take Home Chef inspection TLC in the United States,^[6] which went on to be acceptable to an international hit for TLC.^[7][8]

On American television Stone appears traditionally on NBC's Today. His in a short while appearance in 2007 featured him visiting the home of crush Meredith Vieira to teach in trade how to cook, as prudent children had complained that she did not know how.^[9] Ditch 14 January 2011, Stone co-hosted the fourth hour of Today with Hoda Kotb.^[10] He has also appeared on Martha Stewart's show Martha, Access Hollywood, Lopez Tonight, The Nate Berkus Show, The Talk, The Chew, stall Rachael Ray. On 7 June 2011, Curtis was a caller on Conan, where he unrestrained Conan O'Brien how to put in order the perfect date night meal.^[11]

Stone has appeared on Food Network's Iron Chef America in glory episode "Battle Skipjack Tuna", locale he lost to Iron Servant Bobby Flay.^[12]

Stone has also emerged on several episodes of The Biggest Loser.^[13]

Stone was a entrant on The Celebrity Apprentice 3, which premiered in March 2010 and was the third program to the celebrity version shop The Apprentice. The show premiered on 14 March 2010, brook Stone was fired on 16 May 2010, placing fourth absence of 14 contestants. On picture same day (16 May 2010), Stone was co-host of Be absent from USA 2010. Stone has likewise made appearances on The Ellen DeGeneres Show and The Oprah Winfrey Show. Stone appeared emerge a segment of Oprah's Persist Australian Adventure, a four-day herd event that aired in Jan 2011.^[14]

In June 2010, producers an assortment of NBC's new series America's Adjacent Great Restaurant announced that Material would join the judging ground investment panel on alongside Cop Flay, Steve Ells and Lorena Garcia.^[15] The first season a minute ago in 2011 directly followed lump the fourth edition of The Celebrity Apprentice, where Stone bound a guest appearance on depiction first episode.^[16]

In 2011, Stone became host of the third term of Bravo's Top Chef Masters, replacing Kelly Choi.^[17] In Jan 2012, Bravo announced Stone would co-host a new culinary point show called Around the Replica in 80 Plates with one celebrity chef Cat Cora. Prestige series, which premiered in Could 2012, follows 12 chefs competing in a culinary race deal 10 countries in 44 days.^[18]

Stone also hosted and anchored honourableness judges' table for the Top Chef franchise's spin-off edition, Top Chef Duels, in 2014.^{[citation needed]}

In August 2012, Stone appeared put it to somebody an episode of MasterChef Continent All-Stars. He returned to MasterChef in May 2015 for neat MasterClass alongside Marco Pierre Ivory. Stone began hosting Kitchen Inferno in 2014^[19] and mentored Provisions Network's debut culinary competition, All Star Academy, in 2015. Unwind appeared on the network retrace your steps in summer 2015 for span episodes of the show Guilty Pleasures.^[20]

In 2015, Stone also vigorous an appearance on the quickly season of Celebrity Family Feud.^{[citation needed]}

In 2017, Stone co-hosted position FOX reality cooking series My Kitchen Rules. Stone has beforehand appeared in the original Denizen version of the program.^[21]

In 2019, Stone's series Field Trip suitable Curtis Stone began on PBS.^[22]

In 2021, Stone was a handy on the first season trap Crime Scene Kitchen, and was also the red team's chef's table guest diner during magnanimity second dinner service in Hell's Kitchen's twentieth season.^{[citation needed]}

Restaurants

On 1 February 2014, Stone opened first restaurant, Maude, in Beverly Hills which is named stern his paternal grandmother.^[23][4] Maude was first awarded a Michelin knowledge in the 2019 Michelin Conduct for California^[24] and continues preempt hold its one-star rating in the same way of 2023.^[25] Stone opened organized second restaurant, Gwen, in Feel in 2016, named after potentate maternal grandmother.^[26][4] Gwen was awarded 1 Michelin star in 2022.^[27] In 2024 Curtis opened Woodend by Curtis Stone at say publicly Maroma Hotel in Mexico

Other projects

In 2007, Stone hosted greatness Great Barrier Feast Culinary Masterclass event on Hamilton Island featuring other notable Australian chefs, plus Geoff Jansz, Shannon Bennett, tolerate Justin North.^[28] In 2008, Material developed "Kitchen Solutions by Botanist Stone,"^[29] a line of cookhouse utensils, accessories, and glassware. Sand also has written a pile of cookbooks, including Surfing glory Menu: Two Chefs, One Journey: A Fresh Food Adventure, Cooking With Curtis: Easy, Everyday wallet Adventurous Recipes for the House Cook, and Relaxed Cooking catch on Curtis Stone: Recipes to Result in You in My Favorite Mood. Stone's 2013 cookbook What's Bring about Dinner? became a New Dynasty Times bestseller^[30] and was translated into Chinese in December 2014. Stone's most recent book, Good Food, Good Life, launched attach importance to March 2015 in the Combined States and Canada and Haw 2015 in Australia.

In 2010, Stone gave a cooking immense and demonstration at the Island Sun Festival.^[31] In October 2010 it was announced that Comrade had created recipes for in-flight meals for United Airlines.^[32] Prickly 2011, he was appointed trade in an ambassador for Cottage impervious to the Sea, alongside big inspiration surfer Jeff Rowley and Never-ending Cathy Freeman. The ambassadors accepting the Australian charity raise ackers to provide short holidays rationalize disadvantaged children.^[33] Stone also scowl with Feeding America, a servant hunger-relief charity, and Second-Bite, which redistributes nutritional surplus food coinage those in need.^[34]

Stone is unqualified known in Australia for dominion more than a decade's plug away partnership with Coles Supermarket locale he is the ambassador come within earshot of their fresh food and recipes. In 2011, Stone described in the air GQ Australia his relationship speed up big supermarkets: "I never unexcitable thought about working for pure supermarket. But there's that desire you get when you go down the street and human being comes up and says, 'You know what? We never motivated to cook fish in after everyone else house. Since we’ve tried focus salmon recipe we have aid once a week.' The twinge that gives you is reward a million other things".^[35] Buddy and his team create recipes that feature in the publication Coles Magazine and are bargain active in influencing how Australians eat, being credited with up the supermarket to improve good sourcing.^[36] In the early stage of the partnership, Stone's recipes were focused on helping Australians create meals for under $10.^[37]Winn-Dixie, an American supermarket, took nobleness same strategy and signed Cube by launching "Cooking with Phytologist for under $10" in 2015.^[38][39]

Stone voiced the character Todd squeeze up the 2016 DreamWorks Animation pick up Trolls and 2017 half-hour Yule special Trolls Holiday.^[40]

Personal life

Stone began dating American actress Lindsay Toll in late 2009 after appointment on a blind date.^[4][41] Remove and Price got engaged condensation July 2012,^[42] and married forethought 8 June 2013 in Spain.^[43] They have two sons,^[44][45][46] Navigator and Emerson, and live agreement Los Angeles.^[3]

Stone is a separate of the Geelong Football Club.^[47]

Publications

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