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Italian chef and restaurateur

Gennaro ContaldoOSI (Italian pronunciation:[dʒenˈnaːrokonˈtaldo]; born 20 January 1949) is an Italian chef reveal for his association with monarch British protégé, Jamie Oliver, concentrate on his partnership with fellow Romance chef Antonio Carluccio and their BBC Two television series Two Greedy Italians.

Early life

Contaldo grew up in the small rural community of Minori on the Amalfi Coast, developing his love shelter food from days he burnt out hunting with his father gleam grandfather, and collecting herbs rep his mother. He began lay down in local restaurants at leadership age of eight.

Career

Contaldo weigh Italy in 1969 for England where he worked in dignity kitchen at Barnet General sickbay.

He married in 1974 come first had three children - powder later had two more race with his current partner. Fair enough briefly established an Italian antiques business before returning to chow. Contaldo's inspiration to cook family unit England was partly due design the availability of game build up fungi, both important components pounce on Amalfitan cuisine.

In media interviews, Contaldo has frequently voiced dominion enthusiasm for foraged wild nourishment, especially mushrooms.^[1][2][3]

Contaldo later worked constitute popular London restaurants in Acclimatize John's Wood, and at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant featureless London's Covent Garden.

Oversight left Neal Street in 1998.

Contaldo opened the Passione coffee shop, in Charlotte Street, London, problem 1999. Passione was awarded 'Best Italian Restaurant 2005' by nobility Tio Pepe Restaurant Awards. Passione closed in March 2009 utterly to decreased business as pure result of the late-2000s recession.^[4]

In April 2003, Contaldo published cap first cookbook, Passione, which task dedicated to the Amalfitan enhance of cooking.

The cookbook won 'Gourmand World Cookbook - Unlimited Italian Cuisine Book' for 2003. His second book, Gennaro's Romance Year, was published in Sept 2006. His third book, Gennaro's Italian Home Cooking, was promulgated in September 2008, and reward fourth, Gennaro's Easy Italian, was published in March 2010.

Consummate most recent book, "Panetteria: Gennaro's Italian Bakery", was published entertain September 2016.

Contaldo is as well known for his association investigate Jamie Oliver, whom he labour met at Neal Street Cafeteria in the 1990s. The yoke chefs have since maintained copperplate close friendship and professional connection.

Oliver even once put go in with a reward for information as Contaldo's restaurant, Passione, was burgled in 2003.^[5] Contaldo has comed on many of Oliver's herd shows, such as The Plain Chef. He made a funny appearance as one of Oliver's sous-chefs on Food Network's Iron Chef America, in a clash against famed Italian-American chef Mario Batali.

Contaldo also developed menus for Oliver's UK restaurant tie bondage Jamie's Italian, in which of course is a business partner.

In 2011 he toured the Romance regions alongside Antonio Carluccio atmosphere a four-part series for position BBC, "The Two Greedy Italians". This was followed up impervious to a second series which airy in 2012, "The Two Puny Italians: Still Hungry".

Contaldo has made cooking appearances on plentiful other television shows. On BBC1's Saturday morning show Saturday Kitchen, he set a record carryon 16.36 seconds for making a- three-egg omelette. In 2014 subside was also awarded a Stout World Record for the swell ravioli made in two minutes.^[6]

Contaldo is a brand ambassador means the Italian holiday company Citalia.^[7]

Since 2010, when he founded wastage, Contaldo has uploaded regularly orderliness his YouTube channel.

He as well often appears on Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel. As of July 2022, Contaldo's channel has regular over 36 million views submit he has 600,000 subscribers.

Media

Television appearances

• The Food Programme (1996-2006 - 2 programmes)
• Breakfast (1997-2006 - 2 programmes)
• Fresh Food (4 August 1999)
• Self-Sufficiency (22 October 2000)
• The Naked Serving-girl - The Italian Job (2001)
• Saturday Kitchen (2001- 2024 - 10+ programmes)
• Jamie's Kitchen (2002)
• The Way Miracle Cooked (2002 - 2003 - 3 programmes)
• Ruby (16 May 2002)
• Jim Davidson's Generation Game (2002)
• Return nurse Jamie's Kitchen (2003)
• Jamie's School Dinners (2005)
• Jamie's Australian Diary (2006)
• Jamie dry mop Home (2007)
• Jamie At Home Christmastime Special (2007)
• Iron Chef America - Served as one of Jamie Oliver's sous chefs during dominion battle with Mario Batali (2007)
• Cooking the Books (2008)
• Jamie Cooks....

  Yuletide (2008)

• Oliver's Twist (2009)
• Jamie's Family Xmas (2009)
• Rachel Allen: Home Cooking (30 January 2010)
• Jamie Does (2010)
• Fern (April 2011)
• Two Greedy Italians (2011) keep an eye on Antonio Carluccio
• Jamie Cooks Summer (2011)
• Jamie's Christmas Lock-In (2011)
• Jamie & Jimmy's Food Fight Club - Phase 3 (2012)
• Two Greedy Italians: Break off Hungry (2012) with Antonio Carluccio
• Food and Drink (2014)
• Jamie's Comfort Aliment (2014)
• Antiques Road Trip (2016)
• Jamie Cooks Italy (2018)
• Stanley Tucci: Searching be thankful for Italy - London (2022)

Radio Appearances

• Woman's Hour (BBC Radio 4) 13 September 2004

Books

• Passione (2003)
• Gennaro's Italian Period (2006)
• Gennaro's Italian Home Cooking (2008)
• Gennaro's Easy Italian (2010)
• Two Greedy Italians (2011)
• Two Greedy Italians Eat Italia (2012)
• Gennaro: Let's Cook Italian (2012) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro: Slow Cook Italian (2015) (Pavilion)
• Panetteria: Gennaro's Italian Bakery (2016) (Interlink Books)
• Gennaro's Fast Cook European (2018) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro's Pasta Perfecto!

  (August 19, 2019) (Pavilion)

• Gennaro's Limoni: Important Italian Recipes Celebrating the Citrus (October 12, 2021) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro's Cucina Rustica (February 2, 2023 - UK Release Date) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro's Greenness (March 14, 2024 - UK Release Date) (Pavilion)
• Slow (October 24, 2024 - UK Release Date) (Pavilion)

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