Ilan Hall
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Born | April 6, 1982 |
Cooking style | Spanish |
Education | Culinary Institute of America |
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Ilan D. Hall (born April 6, 1982) is an American chef, best known as the winner of the second season of the Bravo television network's reality series Top Chef.
Hall is a native of Great Neck, New York, U.S.. He attended Elizabeth Miller (E.M) Baker elementary school and Temple Israel Hebrew school. His parents were both immigrants: his father from Scotland, and his mother from Israel. Ilan has a sister, Tess, who attends Bard College [1] Hall's mother, Rita, is a section designer in Newsday's editorial art department. [2]
As a teenager, Hall worked at Marine Fishery, a seafood store in his hometown of Great Neck[3] and was later trained at Italy's Lorenzo de'Medici [4] and at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA). He attended the CIA at the same time as runner-up Marcel Vigneron.
Hall currently lives in New York City.
[edit] References
- ^ Ilan’s submission video at Bravotv.com
- ^ What's Real Here? at Newsday
- ^ Top Chef Finale Spoiled AGAIN
- ^ Great Neck To Great Chef
[edit] External links
- Bio at the Top Chef website
- Bravo’s New Top Chef Tells All Review at the Food & Wine website
- Ilan Hall beats Marcel Vigneron to become 'Top Chef 2' champion Article at Realitytvworld.com
- Great Neck to Great Chef? Article at Newsday.com