Anne Burrell

Anne W. Burrell is an American chef television personality and former instructor in the Institute of Culinary Education. The host of her own Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and the co-host of Worst Cooks in America. Ann Burrell's Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant chef and her signature sparkling blonde locks, and her bubbly to the max, shares basic techniques anyone can be able to master. Chef Burrell has worked in top New York restaurants and studied the Italian culinary traditions and geography. Also, she was a contestant in Food Network's Iron Chef America. As a child in the upstate of New York, Chef Burrell developed a passion for food and cooking at the age of. After earning an English as well as Communications degree from Canisius College in Buffalo NY she became interested in the world of food and restaurant management by enrolled as a student at The Culinary Institute of America. The Culinary Institute of America was a great learning experience for me. It was hard to study how to do, or even work hard enough. After graduation, chef Burrell spent a year in Italy studying at an Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners during her time at La Taverna del Lupo in Umbria and La Bottega del 30 a one-Michelin-starred restaurant in Tuscany. In her time in Italy she learned to be aware of the history and concept behind Italian culinary and cultural traditions that has had a profound impact on her culinary point of view. Burrell is a well-known ambassador of the Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation and has been on the Garden of Dreams Foundation Advisory Board, which helps children who are struggling. Her travels are frequent across the nation in her capacity in the capacity of mentor as well as public speaker in which she speaks about her profession and her love for cooking. Anne has stated throughout her culinary career that she feels so fortunate to have the opportunity to be able to share what's most important to her.