Anne Burrell

Anne W. Burrell, an American television chef and an former Institute of Culinary Education instructor She is also a television personality. She hosts Secrets of a Restaurant Chef on the Food Network and the co-host of Worst Cooks in America. Anne Burrell, with her signature spiky blonde locks and pumped-up persona on the Food Network's Secrets of a Restaurant Cook series, reveals an easy and straightforward cooking techniques that are suitable for the home cook. Chef Burrell is also a part of several of the city's most prestigious restaurants, has studied Italian cuisine and its traditions as well as competed on Food Network's Iron Chef America. As a child in Upstate New York Chef Burrell was infatuated by food. The Culinary Institute of America is where she enrolled to earn an English degree and a Communications diploma from Canisius College Buffalo NY. The Culinary Institute of America was an unforgettable opportunity for me. I was never able to study or accomplish enough. After graduating, chef Burrell was in Italy for one year attending the Italian Culinary Institute for Foreigners. Additionally, she worked at La Taverna del Lupo and La Bottega del 30 (a Michelin starred restaurant) in Tuscany. While in Italy she grew to truly be aware of the philosophies behind Italian culinary and cultural traditions that has had a profound impact from a culinary point of view. Burrell is a well-known ambassador to the Juvenile Diabetic Research Foundation. She is a member of the Garden of Dreams Foundation Advisory Board, which helps kids who have challenges. Burrell is often a guest speaker at conferences and travels throughout the United States in her mentorship task. Anne always felt fortunate that she could share the passion that she had for and her passion for cooking, with people around the world.