Marc Murphy (born 1969 in

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, Italy) is an American

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and television food personality."Guy's Superstar Grocery Games: Part 1" Guy's Grocery Games. Food Network. First broadcast 28 August 2016

Career

Murphy graduated from

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in 1988 and attended school at the

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in New York. He began his culinary career as a line cook at Prix Fixe in New York. By the mid-1990s, he was a

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at Layla in New York and in 1996, became the executive chef at Cellar in the Sky, also in New York. From 1997 to 2000, he was the co-owner and executive chef of La Fourchette. In 2000, he also became the executive chef at Chinoiserie as well as the partner and co-owner of Le Couteau.

Restaurants

In March 2004, Murphy opened his first solo enterprise, Landmarc, in Tribeca. Over the next fifteen years, his restaurants expanded to include: Ditch Plains in the

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(2006), Landmarc in the

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(2007-2019), Kingside at the Viceroy Hotel (2003) and Grey Salt at the

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in 2015. In 2019, it was announced he'd partner with Levent Veziroglu for Grisini Food Hall and Coffee Shops at New Jersey's

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Media

Murphy has served in a regular role as a judge on '' Chopped'', and has made appearances on ''

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Beat Bobby Flay ''Beat Bobby Flay'' is an American cooking competition show on the Food Network. It features various chefs competing against Bobby Flay. The show is taped in front of a live audience. Format In the first round, two guests, often a celebrity ...

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'' and ''

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'', among others. He is the president of the Manhattan chapter of the New York State Restaurant Association. In 2012, Murphy joined the

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's Diplomatic Culinary Partnership, where he takes part in public diplomacy programs that engage foreign audiences abroad as well as those visiting the United States. Murphy's debut cookbook, ''Season with Authority: Confident Home Cooking'' was released in April 2015. He launched a podcast, ''Food 360 with Marc Murphy'' on June 6, 2019, in collaboration with

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Personal life

The son of a "globetrotting"

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, Murphy lived all over the world before the age of 12, in cities such as

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, and

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He says this served as an excellent education in

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and

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. He opened his restaurant with his wife Pamela Schein, and resides with her and their two children, in

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. In a question and answer interview with ''

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'', Murphy has also attributed his cooking influences to his mother and grandparents, as he has recounted experiences of enjoying leg of lamb and

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in the south of

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. He has also credited French chef

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's first

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for having the biggest impact on him, as well as the "strength" and "leadership" of

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's ''

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''.

References

External links

Murphy's website
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