Chloe Kay Coscarelli (born October 14, 1987) is a

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chef and author.

Early life and education

Chloe Kay Coscarelli is the daughter of filmmaker

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. Chloe Coscarelli was born in

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, and grew up in the nearby city of Pacific Palisades. She is a graduate of

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, and the National Gourmet Institute in New York City, where she discovered her love for cooking.

Career

A summer internship at Millennium, a gourmet vegan restaurant located in

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, led to a course of study at the Natural Gourmet Institute in

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. Coscarelli was a contestant in ''

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'', her vegan cupcakes garnering her first prize. She became the first vegan to win a culinary competition on television and was named to the 2017 Class of

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''. From 2020-2022,

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partnered with Coscarelli to create prepared vegan holiday meals for Thanksgiving.Let Chef Chloe Coscarelli Cook Thanksgiving Dinner. Here’s How to Get Her Vegan Roast
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also partnered with Coscarelli to add vegan meals "at all eight of its all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and the Caribbean." In 2023,

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named Coscarelli as one of the "21 Plant-Based Chefs You Need To Know," and

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listed her as one of the "37 Creative Chefs Crafting the Future of Vegan Food."

By Chloe

In mid-2015, Coscarelli partnered with ESquared Hospitality to open the vegan

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''By Chloe'' (stylized ''by CHLOE'') on

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in the

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of New York City. By 2017 the chain comprised five locations in

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and

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, with additional locations in

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, and

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. In July 2017, Coscarelli was forced out by ESquared in an arbitration award after she filed suit in 2016 over control of the company. In December 2020, ''By Chloe'' filed for bankruptcy. In 2021, it was acquired by "a consortium of investors that already had stakes in the company," and rebranded as "Beatnic."

CHLOE

In July 2024, Coscarelli announced the opening of a new vegan restaurant named CHLOE in

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, New York City. The new establishment is located at the original By Chloe site on Bleecker Street. This follows a legal dispute with her former parent company, ESquared Hospitality LLC, which led to her departure from By Chloe in 2017.

Works

In 2012, she published her first cookbook, ''Chloe's Kitchen'', followed by ''Chloe's Vegan Desserts'' in 2013, ''Chloe's Vegan Italian Kitchen'' in 2014, and ''Chloe Flavor'' in 2018.List of publications
/ref> ''Chloe's Vegan Desserts'' was named one of the 16 best vegan cookbooks for 2023 by

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, and

listed both ''Chloe's Kitchen'' and ''Chloe’s Vegan Desserts'' as "Top 100 Vegan Cookbooks of All Time" in 2024.

References

External links

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