Chef Nancy Silverton

As a two time James Beard Award winning chef, Nancy Silverton is in very rare company. In 2014 she won the James Beard Award for Outstanding Chef (their most prestigious award) and in 1990 for the Best Pastry Chef of the Year. Chef Silverton discovered her passion for cooking working in a vegetarian kitchen in her college dormitory in Sonoma, California, then more formally pursued her culinary education at Le Cordon Bleu in London and the Lenotre Culinary Institute in France.

Nancy has had a legendary baking career in which she redefined dessert as the head pastry chef at the iconic Spago in Los Angeles, brought artisanal bread to California as founder of La Brea bakery, dazzled her following with revolutionary pizza and Italian-American cuisine at her Mozza restaurants, and turned her focus to Italian gelato with Nancy’s Fancy.