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Wolfgang Johannes Puck

Live love eat


Biography
 He is an Austrian-American celebrity chef , restaurateur , and businessman based
in Los Angeles. Wolfgang Puck restaurants, catering services, cookbooks and
licensed products are run by Wolfgang Puck Companies, with three divisions.
 He was born to Maria Worth and a butcher who abandoned her before their child's
birth. Maria married Josef Puck in 1956, who adopted Wolfgang. The marriage
produced another son and two daughters.
awards

 In 1993, Spago Hollywood was inducted into the Nation's Restaurant News Fine
Dining Hall of Fame. The next year it received the James Beard Restaurant of the
Year Award.
 In 2002 Puck received the 2001-2002 Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Service Show, Wolfgang Puck.
 Spago Beverly Hills received a James Beard Foundation Outstanding Service
Award in 2005. In November 2007 it was awarded 2 Michelin Stars in the 2008
Los Angeles Michelin Guide.
Restaurants

 Spago, Puck's first restaurant opened on the Sunset Strip serving


California cuisine.
 Chinois, Santa Monica, California Asian Fusion (1983)
 Postrio, San Francisco (1989) Italian and Asian fusion
 Wolfgang Puck Grille, a signature restaurant of MGM Grand
Detroit in Detroit, MI
 Five-Sixty is located in Dallas, Texas and features Asian-inspired
New American cuisine
 Cut steakhouse in Beverly Hills and Las Vegas
Wolfgang gives back

 Lance Armstrong foundation


 Make a wish foundation
 Nevada cancer institute
 Children's diabetes program
 Animal foundation
 Ireland cancer center
 Race to erase MS
 Meals on wheels
 Weel and seafood savvy
He believes that the best part of his work is the opportunity to work in
the kitchen everyday.
He
He also
also believe
believe that
that food
food has
has to
to look
look good
good by
by itself.
itself. If
If you
you buy
buy good,
good, fresh
fresh
green
green beans,
beans, you
you don't
don't have
have to
to line
line them
them up
up in
in aa row
row oror anything
anything like
like that.
that. Just
Just
put
put them
them out
out on
on aa nice-looking
nice-looking plate.
plate.
“COOK FROM THE HEART
AND WITH LOVE.”

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