Marcela Valladolid

Marcela Luz Valladolid-Rodriguez (born July 19, 1978) is an American chef and author. She was the host of the Food Network television series Mexican Made Easy, and a judge on the Food Network television series Best Baker in America.[7]

Marcela Valladolid-Rodriguez
Marcela Valladolid at a 2010 Sauza Tequila Chicago cooking night
Born
Marcela Luz Valladolid-Rodriguez[1][2]

(1978-07-19) July 19, 1978[3][4][5]
San Diego, California,[6] U.S.
EducationRitz Escoffier Cooking School
Los Angeles Culinary Institute
Children3
Culinary career
Cooking styleMexican

Early life

Valladolid-Rodriguez was born in San Diego, California.[8][9] Her interest in pursuing a career as a chef was sparked when she began working at her Aunt Marcela's cooking school in Tijuana, Mexico. Valladolid-Rodriguez graduated from the Los Angeles Culinary Institute as a "Certified cook"[10] and then moved to Paris, France, where she graduated as a classically trained pastry chef at the Ritz-Escoffier Cooking School.[11][12]

She then returned to Tijuana and started her own catering company and taught cooking techniques to classes of 40 students out of her home there.[10]

Career

Valladolid-Rodriguez joined the staff of Bon Appétit magazine as an editor and recipe stylist. She also competed on the 2005 series The Apprentice: Martha Stewart, in which she came in fourth place.[13]

Valladolid-Rodriguez's first cooking show was Relatos con Sabor on Discovery en Español which aired in the U.S. and Latin America. In the series, she showed viewers how local Hispanic homes preserve and revive traditional recipes.[14]

Valladolid-Rodriguez's first cookbook, Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor, debuted in August 2009[15] and has since received positive reviews.[16]

Valladolid-Rodriguez's second cooking show, "Mexican Made Easy", debuted in January 2010 on the Food Network. Her second cookbook, Mexican Made Easy, was released in September 2011 as a companion book to her show.[17] Both Valladolid's book and the show, filmed in San Diego, were designed to show the world there is no "yellow cheese" in traditional Mexican cooking and that her Mexican culinary style can be done with "fresh flavor that fits all."[18]

Valladolid-Rodriguez has also appeared in other Food Network shows. On Throwdown! with Bobby Flay she was a judge for a fish taco-themed competition. She and Flay teamed up to defeat Masaharu Morimoto and teammate Andrew Zimmern on a New Year's edition of Iron Chef America in 2012. Also in 2012, she competed in a celebrity version of Chopped in which she advanced to the final round and finished second (out of four competitors). In 2013, she served as a judge on Guy's Grocery Games.

Valladolid-Rodriguez was one of two judges on the CBS reality TV cooking competition series The American Baking Competition.

On November 27, 2013, Valladolid-Rodriguez was a guest model on the Thanksgiving episode of The Price Is Right, and long before that was a contestant in 2004 playing "That's Too Much", winning a car.[19]

In January 2014, Marcela debuted as one of the co-hosts on Food Network's new show The Kitchen.[20] and left the show in October 2017.

Personal life

Valladolid-Rodriguez lives in Chula Vista, California.

She has sons named Fausto and David, and a daughter, Anna. She is engaged to Philip Button.

In 2013, Valladolid-Rodriguez had a brief affair with her The American Baking Competition co-host Paul Hollywood. Hollywood and his wife separated temporarily because of the affair before reconciling, but it was cited in news of their second separation in 2017.[21][22][23]

References
  1. J-Dobbs [@jeffreydobson] (8 January 2014). "@chefmarcela @middlenamegame nope. It's LUZ. Luz is her middle name" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  2. Valladolid, M. (2010). Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor. Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 9780307885531. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  3. marcela valladolid [@chefmarcela] (20 July 2013). "@djrey05 gracias!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  4. marcela valladolid [@chefmarcela] (20 July 2013). "@PerryGorrell thank you!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. marcela valladolid [@chefmarcela] (20 July 2013). "@dannpp gracias oscar!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  6. "California Birth Index". californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  7. Personal site posting Archived 2010-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  8. "San Diego News, Local, California and National News | UTSanDiego.com | Personal interview with San Diego Union Tribute". weblog.signonsandiego.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  9. "Marcela Valladolid Rodriguez". chefmarcela.com. Retrieved 2017-05-22.
  10. "Marcela Valladolid - The Apprentice: Martha Stewart - Contestant Information - Reality TV World - News, information, episode summaries, message boards, chat and games for unscripted television programs". realitytvworld.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  11. "Personal bio". Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  12. "Amazon.com: Marcela Valladolid: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle". Archived from the original on 2009-10-04. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  13. "Blippitt biography". Archived from the original on 2010-01-25. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  14. "Relatos con Sabor". Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  15. "Fresh Mexico: 100 Simple Recipes for True Mexican Flavor by Marcela Valladolid-Rodriguez | 9780307451101 | Paperback | Barnes & Noble". search.barnesandnoble.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  16. "Chef Marcela Mexican Food Cookbook, Mexican Kids Recipe Cookbook, Healthy Mexican Cookbook". Archived from the original on 2011-07-08. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  17. "Personal Website". Retrieved 25 December 2018.
  18. Mexican Made Easy personal homepage Archived 2010-01-15 at the Wayback Machine
  19. "Food Network Gossip: Watch Marcela Valladolid Win A Car on 'The Price Is Right' in 2004". foodnetworkgossip.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  20. "Food Network Gossip: Food Network's 'The Kitchen' - More Information About The Show". foodnetworkgossip.com. Retrieved 2014-12-29.
  21. "Paul Hollywood splits from his wife after 20 years". BBC News. November 20, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
  22. Ruby, Jennifer (November 20, 2017). "Paul Hollywood announces split from wife Alexandra after nearly 20 years of marriage". Evening Standard.
  23. "Great British Bake Off host Paul Hollywood and wife separate". Daily Telegraph. November 20, 2017.
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