Kenji Lopez Alt Bio | Wiki
Kenji Lopez Alt is an American chef and food writer. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, became a critical and commercial success, charting on the New York Times Bestseller. It also won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for the best General Cooking cookbook.
The cookbook expanded on Kenji’s “The Food Lab” column on the Serious Eats blog. He is known for using the scientific method in his cooking to improve popular American recipes and to explain the science of cooking.
He now maintains a popular YouTube channel in which he demonstrates various recipes and cooking techniques with a POV filming style. After his move to Seattle in late 2020, Kenji’s Instagram posts became increasingly popular as he recommended various businesses and dishes around the area.
Kenji Lopez Alt Age
Kenji was born on October 31, 1979, in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is 42 years old.
Kenji Lopez Alt Height
He is a man of average stature and stands at a height of 5 ft 8 in (Approx. 1.72 m).
Kenji Lopez Alt Family
He was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts by his father Frederick Alt, and his mother. Kenji’s father is a Harvard University geneticist and immunologist. His maternal grandfather Koji Nakanishi is a chemist. He holds an American nationality and belongs to mixed ethnicity.
Kenji Lopez Alt Wife
Kenji is married to his beautiful wife Adriana López. Upon marriage, Kenji combined his birth surname with that of his wife Lopez. Together, the couple shares two children, the second of which was born in September 2021. They reside in Seattle, Washington, after previously living in San Mateo, California, New York City, and Boston.
Kenji Lopez Alt Education | Architecture
He attended the Dalton School and graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002, where he majored in architecture. After his move to Seattle in late 2020, Kenji’s Instagram posts became increasingly popular as he recommended various businesses and dishes around the area.
Kenji Lopez Alt Wok | Book
In 2022, he released a cookbook titled The Wok: Recipes and Techniques, a 658-page book focused on woks. The Seattle Times called the book “arguably the most anticipated cookbook of the year” and it debuted at number one on the New York Times Bestseller list in the category of “Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous”.
In 2020 Kenji released a children’s book, Every Night is Pizza Night, which debuted on the New York Times Children’s Bestseller list.
Kenji Lopez Alt Food Lab
The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science was published in September 2015. It was a New York Times Bestseller and won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for General Cooking. The book also won the International Association of Culinary Professionals awards for Best American Cookbook and Cookbook of the Year.
Penny Pleasance of the New York Journal of Books called The Food Lab “a seminal work that is encyclopedic in scope and can be used as a reference by even the most experienced home cooks”.
Kenji Lopez Alt Restaurant
He opened the Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus in San Mateo, California in 2017, with partners Adam Simpson and Tyson Mao. Kenji started a YouTube channel in 2016, which, as of March 2022, has over one million subscribers and over 100 million views.
The videos are POV-style demonstrations of recipes and cooking techniques in his home kitchen that feature unscripted commentary and largely unedited footage. After his move to Seattle in late 2020, Kenji’s Instagram posts became increasingly popular as he recommended various businesses and dishes around the area.
Kenji Lopez Alt Serious Eats
He served as the Managing Culinary Director and is the Chief Culinary Consultant of Serious Eats, a food blog. While there, Kenji authored the James Beard Award-nominated column “The Food Lab”. He later adapted this column into his first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, which was published in September 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company.
Kenji Lopez Alt Net Worth
He earns his wealth from his career, therefore, he has amassed a fortune over the years. Kenji’s estimated net worth is $2 million.
Who Is Kenji Lopez Alt
Kenji is an American chef and food writer. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, became a critical and commercial success, charting on the New York Times Bestseller. It also won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for the best General Cooking cookbook.