Joey Altman

Joey Altman
Born	United States
Education	Sullivan County Community College
Website	http://www.joeyaltman.com/
Culinary career
Current restaurant(s) Miss Pearl's Jam House in Oakland, California
Previous restaurant(s) Miss Pearl's Jam House in San Francisco, California, The Palace in Sunnyvale, California, Wild Hare in Menlo Park, California
Television show(s) Bay Cafe (KRON Channel 4), What Cooking with Joey Altman (Shop at Home Network), Appetite for Adventure (Food Network), Tasting Napa (Food Network)
Award(s) won James Beard Award, 2000, 2001, 2006, "Best Local Cooking Series"

Joey Altman is an American chef, restaurateur, TV host and writer.

Personal history

Altman grew up in the Catskills in New York, where his mother worked at Grossinger's Catskill Resort Hotel. As a child he wanted to be a magician, a stunt man, musician or an actor.^[1]

He earned a degree in hotel and restaurant management at the Sullivan County Community College in New York.

Altman is an avid blues guitarist, performing with the all-chef band "Back Burner Blues" for charity events.^[2] He is married, has three children, and lives in San Francisco.

Career

He trained under Chef Bernard Constantin at the Hotel Larivoire in Lyon, France, and also for Jean Brouilly at Tarare in Britany.^[1] He worked at the Harvest Restaurant in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1985 he moved to New Orleans, Louisiana to work for Emeril Lagasse at Commander's Palace.^[1]

In San Francisco he worked for Jeremiah Tower at Stars and Taxi, and as a private chef at music promoter Bill Graham's concert venues, before gaining prominence as the opening chef at Miss Pearl's Jam House, a popular restaurant at the Phoenix Hotel in San Francisco's Tenderloin District. He owned and ran the Wild Hare Restaurant in Menlo Park, California from 1999-2003.^[2] Beginning in 2002 Altman was spokesman for Diageo Chateau & Estate Wines, a wine division of Diageo.

Television career

Altman has hosted a number of television food shows. At the Food Network he hosted "Appetite for Adventure", which demonstrated outdoor travel cooking, and "Tasting Napa", a travelogue.^[2] He was the host of "What's Cooking with Joey Altman" on Shop at Home Network. In 1998 he launched the long-running "Bay Cafe", which features on-location and in-studio cooking demonstrations with guest chefs from around the San Francisco Bay Area.^[3]

Awards

• James Beard Award, 2000, 2001, 2006, "Best Local Cooking Series"^[4]

Bibliography

• Without Reservations (with Jennie Schacht), photography by Frankie Frankeny

References

1. "Chef Joey Altman". Reluctant Gourmet.
2. "Joey Altman". Food Network.
3. "Joey Altman". KRON.
4. "Primary Source".

External links

• joeyaltman.com – official site