Chris Fischer is an American chef and farmer from

Martha's Vineyard Martha's Vineyard, often simply called the Vineyard, is an island in the Northeastern United States, located south of Cape Cod in Dukes County, Massachusetts, known for being a popular, affluent summer colony. Martha's Vineyard includes the s ...

, Massachusetts. He is the husband of

stand-up comedian Stand-up comedy is a comedy, comedic performance to a live audience in which the performer addresses the audience directly from the stage. The performer is known as a comedian, a comic or a stand-up. Stand-up comedy consists of One-line joke ...

and actress Amy Schumer.

Biography

A native of

, Fischer grew up on a farm and learned about food from his father, Albert, a former commercial fisherman, who taught him how to hunt, fish and farm. Fischer spent much of his boyhood at Martha's Vineyard and went to a two-room schoolhouse that has since been converted into a police station. When he became a chef, he worked under Mario Batali at Babbo while living in Manhattan. He also cooked in Europe, working at the American Academy in Rome and London's The River Cafe before returning to Martha's Vineyard to work there full-time in 2007. Fischer ran his family farm, Beetlebung Farm, a five-acre property that his grandfather purchased in the 1950s or in 1961. He was the executive chef at the Beach Plum Inn & Restaurant for several years and was awarded the 2014 StarChefs.com Coastal New England Rising Stars Award. In 2016, he was awarded with the James Beard Award for his book The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook, which he wrote with co-author Catherine Young. He was also a part-time instructor at Boston University's Metropolitan College Programs in Food & Wine.

Personal life

Fischer married comedian and actress Amy Schumer on February 13, 2018, in Malibu, California. On May 5, 2019, Schumer gave birth to their son, Gene. Gene was initially given the middle name "Attell" as a nod to Dave Attell, but on April 14, 2020, Schumer announced in a podcast that his middle name had been changed to "David" after they realized "Gene Attell" sounded like "genital." Schumer revealed in her Netflix special ''Amy Schumer Growing'' that Chris Fischer is on the autism spectrum.

Filmography

Awards

His cookbook, ''The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook'', which memorialized a year of cooking and living on Martha's Vineyard, won the 2016 James Beard Award for American Cooking.

References

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