Todd English

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William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality, based in Boston, Massachusetts. He hosted the TV cooking show, Food Trip with Todd English, on PBS. In 2005 he was a judge on the PBS show Cooking Under Fire.

His life and career received a chapter in Super Chef by Juliette Rossant, who had written previously about English for the Forbes Celebrity 100 list.[1] Todd English also works as lead chef for Delta Air Lines (US).[2]

Early life and career

English was born in Amarillo, Texas, grew up in Sandy Springs, Georgia, and later Branford, Connecticut.[3] He matriculated at Guilford College in North Carolina on a baseball scholarship but quit and entered the Culinary Institute of America in 1978 and graduated in 1982.[4][5]

He worked under Jean-Jacques Rachou at New York's La Cote Basque,[4] and then moved to Italy to work at several restaurants there.[6] He returned to the United States at age 25 and served as the executive chef of the Italian restaurant Michela's in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for three years, before opening the original Olives restaurant in 1989.[4]

Personal life

English was married to Olivia Disch English, his classmate at the Culinary Institute of America.[4] The couple has since divorced; they have three children. He was engaged to Erica Wang in 2009; however, their wedding was called off.[7][8][9][10]

Restaurants

Olives

English's first restaurant, Olives, opened in the Charlestown neighborhood of Boston in April 1989. One of his employees, future restaurateur Barbara Lynch, has stated that English physically abused her during her time there.[11] The restaurant's name is a tribute to his then-wife, Olivia. The food is "rustic Mediterranean," with a strong influence from Italian cuisine. The restaurant was named Best New Restaurant by Boston magazine and has been honored as Best Food and Top Table by Gourmet magazine. Olives is known for two signature desserts – a molten chocolate cake and a vanilla bean soufflé – which must be ordered with the main meal. The Health Department has cited Olives for sanitation discrepancies and animal waste hazards.[12]

In October 1998, Olives opened in the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas; it closed in 2019.

In May 2010, Olives was closed due to damage done by a grease fire.[13] This was the third time the Charlestown eatery was closed due to fire damage since 2001.[13][14]

In May 2012, the Charlestown Olives reopened.[15]

In June 2013, the Charlestown Olives closed for good.[16]

A second Olives was opened in 2001 at W New York - Union Square in Union Square, New York City, but was closed in 2015.[17]

In February 2013, Olives opened in Mexico City. The remaining Olives are the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in Nassau, Bahamas, and the Ritz-Carlton Canal (hotel and resort) in Abu Dhabi.

In 2021, Olives opened in Virgin Hotels Las Vegas.[18]

Figs

Figs is the name of two pizzerias in the Boston area, one in the Beacon Hill neighborhood and another in Charlestown (now closed). Figs offers authentic Neapolitan-style pizzas with very thin crusts, served on inverted sheet pans, as well as salads and pastas. Figs won the "Hot Concept" award from Nation's Restaurant News magazine.

Other restaurants

English's other restaurants include:

Books

English has authored or co-authored four cookbooks: The Olives Table, The Figs Table, The Olives Dessert Table, with Sally Sampson, and Cooking in Everyday English, published by Simon & Schuster and Time Home Entertainment Inc.

Net worth

As of 2020, English's net worth was $18.5 million. He was the ninth-highest-earning chef in the world.[22]

References

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  5. ↑ Atkinson, Kim, "Being Todd English" Template:Webarchive, Boston magazine, May 2006
  6. ↑ "Great Chef Todd English", greatchefs.com
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  9. ↑ Grace, Melissa, "'Top Chef' Todd English's ex-bride, Erica Wang, must take anger management classes and do community service if she wants assault charges dropped, a judge says.", The New York Daily News, January 14, 2010.
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  12. ↑ Traverso, Amy, "Reconsidering Todd English" Template:Webarchive, Boston magazine, March 2009
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  14. ↑ Shanahan, Mark; Goldstein, Meredith, "Licensing Board lights the fire under celebrity chef", The Boston Globe, July 1, 2011
  15. ↑ Shanahan, Mark; Goldstein, Meredith, "Todd English says new and improved Olives set to reopen – officially", Boston Globe, May 9, 2012
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  19. ↑ Seven Days Aboard the Queen Mary 2, by Dwight Garner, New York Times, February 10, 2013
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