Wolfgang Puck
Austrian-born chef who brought fine dining to the mainstream.
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The chef's business empire includes three separate entities: Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Catering, and Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc.[1]
Key facts and history
At age 24, Puck left Europe for the United States on a friend's advice.[1] In 1975, he came to Los Angeles and became chef of Ma Maison in West Hollywood.[1] Puck opened his first flagship restaurant, Spago, in 1982.[1] Puck moved Spago from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills in 1997.[1]
He opened CUT, a contemporary steakhouse at the Beverly Wilshire hotel, in 2006.[1] Puck's birthplace is Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria, and his initial culinary training came from his mother, who worked as a pastry chef.[2] After his mother remarried, Puck adopted the last name of his stepfather, Josef Puck.[2] Granita, a seafood establishment in Malibu, California, became Puck's fourth restaurant when it opened in 1991.[3]
Tribune Content Agency has distributed Puck's recipes to newspapers and websites globally since 2003.[4]
What the cited sources add
The "About Wolfgang Puck" account states that Puck is the only chef to have won the James Beard Foundation Outstanding Chef of the Year Award multiple times.[1] According to the same source, Puck's Fine Dining restaurants are located in Las Vegas, Beverly Hills, Maui, London, New York, Singapore, Budapest, Istanbul, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia.[1] A 2011 article in The Independent reports that Barack Obama took the First Lady to Puck's Washington DC restaurant, The Source, for her birthday.[5] The Mashed article notes that Puck's first marriage was to Marie France Trouillot in 1975.[6]
The Mashed article also reports that Puck's son Byron joined the family business as a dishwasher at Spago at age 12.[6]
References
- "About Wolfgang Puck". facts only, no text reused. wolfgangpuck.com
- Wikipedia, "Wolfgang Puck" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Sissons, "Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen Adventures", The Wall Street Journal, August 26, 2011; Chang, "Strong-willed top chef", Los Angeles Times, March 7, 2010; Peck, "Obama's favorite chef to open new restaurant in UK", The Independent, November 1, 2011; "Wolfgang Puck Inducted", culinaryhalloffame.com (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Wolfgang Puck" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Ochoa, "Granita—Spago by the Sea", Los Angeles Times, August 18, 1991; "Granita Malibu restaurant to close", Malibu Times, September 21, 2005 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Wolfgang Puck" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Wolfgang Puck's Kitchen articles", Tribune Content Agency (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Peck, "Obama's favorite chef to open new restaurant in UK", The Independent, November 1, 2011. facts only, no text reused. independent.co.uk
- Luna, "All About Wolfgang Puck's 3 Marriages", Mashed. facts only, no text reused. mashed.com
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- Wikipedia: Wolfgang Puck (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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