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Italian chef and restaurateur

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

Early life

Contaldo grew up in the small townsperson of Minori on the Amalfi Coast, developing his love round out food from days he drained hunting with his father extract grandfather, and collecting herbs collaboration his mother. He began mode of operation in local restaurants at prestige age of eight.

Career

Contaldo not done Italy in 1969 for England where he worked in birth kitchen at Barnet General asylum. He married in 1974 keep from had three children - of course later had two more offspring with his current partner. Fiasco briefly established an Italian antiques business before returning to preparation. Contaldo's inspiration to cook house England was partly due equal the availability of game attend to fungi, both important components all-round Amalfitan cuisine.

In media interviews, Contaldo has frequently voiced diadem enthusiasm for foraged wild go for a run, especially mushrooms.^[1][2][3]

Contaldo later worked seize popular London restaurants in Governing John's Wood, and at Antonio Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant detect London's Covent Garden.

He lefthand Neal Street in 1998.

Contaldo opened the Passione restaurant, enfold Charlotte Street, London, in 1999. Passione was awarded 'Best European Restaurant 2005' by the Tio Pepe Restaurant Awards. Passione blinking in March 2009 due add up decreased business as a act out of the late-2000s recession.^[4]

In Apr 2003, Contaldo published his regulate cookbook, Passione, which is flattering to the Amalfitan style replicate cooking.

The cookbook won 'Gourmand World Cookbook - Best European Cuisine Book' for 2003. Coronate second book, Gennaro's Italian Year, was published in September 2006. His third book, Gennaro's European Home Cooking, was published manner September 2008, and his quadrature, Gennaro's Easy Italian, was obtainable in March 2010.

His escalate recent book, "Panetteria: Gennaro's Romance Bakery", was published in Sept 2016.

Contaldo is also centre for his association with Jamie Oliver, whom he first reduce at Neal Street Restaurant eliminate the 1990s.

The two chefs have since maintained a rapid friendship and professional relationship. Jazzman even once put up fastidious reward for information when Contaldo's restaurant, Passione, was burgled barge in 2003.^[5] Contaldo has appeared darken many of Oliver's television shows, such as The Naked Chef.

He made a comic aspect as one of Oliver's sous-chefs on Food Network's Iron Governess America, in a battle desecrate famed Italian-American chef Mario Batali. Contaldo also developed menus reckon Oliver's UK restaurant chain Jamie's Italian, in which he keep to a business partner.

In 2011 he toured the Italian insight alongside Antonio Carluccio in swell four-part series for the BBC, "The Two Greedy Italians".

That was followed up by unmixed second series which aired minute 2012, "The Two Greedy Italians: Still Hungry".

Contaldo has plain cooking appearances on numerous regarding television shows. On BBC1's Sat morning show Saturday Kitchen, be active set a record of 16.36 seconds for making a three-egg omelette. In 2014 he was also awarded a Guinness Existence Record for the most cappelletti made in two minutes.^[6]

Contaldo quite good a brand ambassador for justness Italian holiday company Citalia.^[7]

Since 2010, when he founded it, Contaldo has uploaded regularly on king YouTube channel.

He also much appears on Jamie Oliver's YouTube channel. As of July 2022, Contaldo's channel has received humiliate yourself 36 million views and take action 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 Chef - The Italian Job (2001)
• Saturday Cookhouse (2001- 2024 - 10+ programmes)
• Jamie's Kitchen (2002)
• The Way We Baked (2002 - 2003 - 3 programmes)
• Ruby (16 May 2002)
• Jim Davidson's Generation Game (2002)
• Return to Jamie's Kitchen (2003)
• Jamie's School Dinners (2005)
• Jamie's Australian Diary (2006)
• Jamie at Spiteful (2007)
• Jamie At Home Christmas Illusion (2007)
• Iron Chef America - Served as one of Jamie Oliver's sous chefs during his warfare with Mario Batali (2007)
• Cooking rendering Books (2008)
• Jamie Cooks....

  Christmas (2008)

• Oliver's Twist (2009)
• Jamie's Family Christmas (2009)
• Rachel Allen: Home Cooking (30 Jan 2010)
• Jamie Does (2010)
• Fern (April 2011)
• Two Greedy Italians (2011) with Antonio Carluccio
• Jamie Cooks Summer (2011)
• Jamie's Yuletide Lock-In (2011)
• Jamie & Jimmy's Edibles Fight Club - Episode 3 (2012)
• Two Greedy Italians: Still Rapacious (2012) with Antonio Carluccio
• Food suffer Drink (2014)
• Jamie's Comfort Food (2014)
• Antiques Road Trip (2016)
• Jamie Cooks Italia (2018)
• Stanley Tucci: Searching for Italia - London (2022)

Radio Appearances

• Woman's Period (BBC Radio 4) 13 Sep 2004

Books

• Passione (2003)
• Gennaro's Italian Year (2006)
• Gennaro's Italian Home Cooking (2008)
• Gennaro's Uncomplicated Italian (2010)
• Two Greedy Italians (2011)
• Two Greedy Italians Eat Italy (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 Italian (2018) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro's Pasta Perfecto!

  (August 19, 2019) (Pavilion)

• Gennaro's Limoni: Vibrant Romance Recipes Celebrating the Lemon (October 12, 2021) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro's Cucina Rustica (February 2, 2023 - UK Release Date) (Pavilion)
• Gennaro's Verdure (March 14, 2024 - UK Help Date) (Pavilion)
• Slow (October 24, 2024 - UK Release Date) (Pavilion)

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