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James Kenji López-Alt (born October 31, 1979[1]), often known simply as Kenji, is an American chef and food writer.[4][5][6] His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, became a critical and commercial success, charting on the New York Times Bestseller list and winning the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for the best General Cooking cookbook.[7] The cookbook expanded on López-Alt's "The Food Lab" column on the Serious Eats blog. López-Alt is known for using the scientific method in his cooking to improve popular American recipes and to explain the science of cooking.[8]

J. Kenji López-Alt
López-Alt in November 2019
Born
James Kenji Alt

(1979-10-31) October 31, 1979 (age 43)[1]
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.[2]
Culinary career
Award(s) won
    • James Beard Award, General Cooking
    • IACP Cookbook of the Year
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2016 - Present
GenreCooking, education
Subscribers1.1+ million[3]
Total views139+ million[3]
Creator Awards
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers
Last updated: March 9, 2021
Websitekenjilopezalt.com

López-Alt started Wursthall in 2017, a beer hall style restaurant in San Mateo, California. He now maintains a popular YouTube channel in which he demonstrates various recipes and cooking techniques with a POV filming style. He released a children's book titled Every Night is Pizza Night in 2020 and a cookbook titled The Wok: Recipes and Techniques in 2022 which focused on the eponymous cooking vessel, both of which became New York Times Bestsellers.


Early life and education


Born James Kenji Alt, López-Alt is the son of Harvard University geneticist and immunologist Frederick Alt, and on his mother's side, the grandson of chemist Koji Nakanishi.[9] López-Alt attended the Dalton School[10][11] and graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 2002, where he majored in architecture.[12]


Career



Early career (2000s to 2015)


López-Alt wearing headphones while holding an audio recorder for a Serious Eats video at the restaurant American Seasons in Nantucket, Massachusetts
López-Alt wearing headphones while holding an audio recorder for a Serious Eats video at the restaurant American Seasons in Nantucket, Massachusetts

López-Alt's first restaurant job was during his sophomore year of college. He attempted to take a job as a waiter at a local restaurant, but they needed a prep cook.[13] He later worked with several Boston chefs including Barbara Lynch and Ken Oringer.[14] He went on to work as a test cook and editor at Cook's Illustrated magazine and America's Test Kitchen.[15]

López-Alt was the Managing Culinary Director and is the Chief Culinary Consultant of Serious Eats, a food blog, where he authored the James Beard Award-nominated column "The Food Lab".[16][17] He later adapted this column into his first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, which was published in September 2015 by W. W. Norton & Company.[18] It was a New York Times Bestseller.[19] and won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for General Cooking,[20] as well as the International Association of Culinary Professionals awards for Best American Cookbook and Cookbook of the Year.[21] Penny Pleasance of the New York Journal of Books called The Food Lab "a seminal work that is encyclopedic in scope and can be used as a reference by even the most experienced home cooks".[22]


After The Food Lab (2016 to present)


Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus
Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus

López-Alt opened the Wursthall Restaurant & Bierhaus in San Mateo, California in 2017, with partners Adam Simpson and Tyson Mao.[23]

López-Alt started a YouTube channel in 2016, which, as of March 2022, has over one million subscribers and over 100 million views. The videos are POV-style demonstrations of recipes and cooking techniques in López-Alt's home kitchen that feature unscripted commentary and largely unedited footage.[24]

In September 2019, López-Alt became a monthly columnist at NYT Cooking.[25]

In 2020 López-Alt released a children's book, Every Night is Pizza Night, which debuted on the New York Times Children's Bestseller list.[26][27]

After his move to Seattle in late 2020, López-Alt's Instagram posts became increasingly popular as he recommended various businesses and dishes around the area, becoming "maybe the most powerful food influencer this city has seen in the social media age," according to The Seattle Times.[28]

In 2022, López-Alt released a cookbook titled The Wok: Recipes and Techniques, a 658-page book focused on woks. The Seattle Times called the book "arguably the most anticipated cookbook of the year" and it debuted at number one on the New York Times Bestseller list in the category of "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous".[29][30][31][32][33]


Personal life


As of 2021, López-Alt resides in Seattle, Washington,[34] after previously living in San Mateo, California, New York City, and Boston.[35]

Upon marriage, López-Alt combined his birth surname, Alt, with that of his wife Adriana López.[9][36] López-Alt has two children, the second of which was born in September 2021.[37]

In January 2019, López-Alt tweeted that "if you come to my restaurant wearing a MAGA cap, you aren't getting served, same as if you come in wearing a swastika, white hood, or any other symbol of intolerance and hate"[38] and "If you’re comfortable sitting next to a MAGA wearer I’m probably not interested in serving you either."[39] He later apologized and deleted the tweet.[40][41]


Filmography


Year Show title Type Notes
2016 The Chew Television series Seven episodes[42]
2017 Guy’s Grocery Games Television series Season 14, Episode 1, “Blogger Battle” (competitor) & Season 14, Episode 3, “GGG Jrs.” (judge)[43]
2019 The Burger Show Television series Season 3, Episode 3, "J. Kenji López-Alt Debunks Burger Myths"[44]
2020 Somebody Feed Phil Television series Season 4, touring the Mission District[45]

Publications



References


  1. "J. Kenji López-Alt | Uncommon Sense". Yankee Magazine. Yankee Publishing, Inc. (published November 2020). October 6, 2020. p. 26. Retrieved July 22, 2022.
  2. J. Kenji López-Alt (September 23, 2020). Ask Kenji Anything #1. Event occurs at 15:45. Retrieved September 28, 2020.
  3. "About J. Kenji López-Alt". YouTube.
  4. "Fall 2015's Best Cookbooks: Cooking Pros Bring It Home". Eater. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  5. Pearlstein, Joanna. "The Ultimate Book for Science Nerds Who Cook". WIRED. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  6. "A SIDE OF SCIENCE - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  7. "The 2016 Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards: Complete Winner Recap". James Beard Foundation. April 26, 2016. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  8. Syckle, Katie Van (August 16, 2021). "Cooking With a Dash of Science". The New York Times. Retrieved August 16, 2021.
  9. Robertson, Blair Anthony (2015). "Science becomes delicious in 'The Food Lab'". The Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on December 16, 2015. Retrieved November 13, 2019. His father, Frederick Alt, is a professor at Harvard Medical School
  10. "Dalton 100-1998". The Dalton School. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  11. Vermillion, Allecia (February 24, 2022). "The Scientific Methods of J. Kenji López-Alt". Seattle Metropolitan. Retrieved March 2, 2022.
  12. Morell, Nicole. "Alumnus takes food out of the kitchen and into the lab". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  13. "Q&A With James Beard Award-Winning Cookbook Author J. Kenji López-Alt". 7x7 Bay Area. October 3, 2016. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  14. "Alumnus Chef One-Ups (OK, Maybe Two-Ups) KFC". slice.mit.edu. Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  15. Killingsworth, Silvia (October 3, 2015). "Kenji López-Alt's Obsessive Kitchen Experiments". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  16. "Masthead". www.seriouseats.com. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  17. "The Complete 2015 JBF Award Nominees". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  18. "The Food Lab". books.wwnorton.com. Archived from the original on November 2, 2016. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  19. "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books - Best Sellers - December 20, 2015". The New York Times. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  20. "The 2016 Book, Broadcast, and Journalism Awards: Complete Winner Recap". www.jamesbeard.org. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  21. "Winners - IACP". IACP. Archived from the original on December 5, 2018. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  22. Pleasance, Penny (2015). "The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science". New York Journal of Books. Retrieved July 3, 2016.
  23. "Internet Food Guru J. Kenji López-Alt Opening Real Life Beer and Sausage Hall". Eater SF. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  24. Martin, Kalea (March 2, 2022). "Why J. Kenji López-Alt Calls His YouTube Channel An 'Anti-Cooking Show'". TastingTable.com. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  25. "J. Kenji López-Alt Joins Food". New York Times. Retrieved October 3, 2020.
  26. Kennedy, Mark. "'Every Night is Pizza Night': Chef and writer J. Kenji López-Alt cooks up a kid's book". USA TODAY. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  27. "Every Night Is Pizza Night". wwnorton.com. Retrieved September 17, 2020.
  28. Vinh, Tan (June 10, 2021). "J. Kenji López-Alt is Seattle's most powerful food influencer — and its most reluctant one". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  29. Vinh, Tan (March 8, 2022). "The year's biggest cookbook is here. Seattle author J. Kenji López-Alt shares his favorite recipes in 'The Wok.'". The Seattle Times. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  30. Julian, Sheryl. "It's high time you heard of J. Kenji Lopez-Alt - The Boston Globe". BostonGlobe.com. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  31. Bhabha, Leah (March 8, 2022). "J. Kenji Lopez-Alt Explains Why a Wok Is the Only Pan You Need". Vogue. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  32. John, Steven (March 8, 2022). "Chef And Author J. Kenji Lopez-Alt On Cookbooks, Woks, And A Late Start In The Kitchen - Exclusive Interview". Mashed.com. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  33. "Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous Books - Best Sellers - Books - March 27, 2022 - The New York Times". The New York Times. Retrieved March 25, 2022.
  34. Vinh, Tan (January 23, 2021). "A new vegan restaurant from an 'Iron Chef' contestant and 12 other openings around Seattle". Seattle Times. Retrieved January 28, 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  35. "Mr. Wizard's Food Lab: J. Kenji López-Alt's unlikely path to stardom". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved December 27, 2017.
  36. "Alumnus Takes Food Out of the Kitchen and into the Lab". MIT Alumni Association. January 11, 2017. Retrieved November 14, 2019.
  37. Rosner, Helen (February 27, 2022). "J. Kenji López-Alt Says You're Cooking Just Fine". The New Yorker. Retrieved March 9, 2022.
  38. "San Mateo Eatery Bans 'Make America Great Again' Hats". January 31, 2019.
  39. "'Like white hoods except stupider': California chef says he won't serve diners wearing 'MAGA' hats". USA Today.
  40. "San Mateo Restaurant Owner Apologizes for 'MAGA' Hat Ban". February 2019.
  41. "Kenji López-Alt Backtracks After Saying His Restaurant Won't Serve MAGA Hat Wearers". February 2019.
  42. "The Chew | TV Guide". TVGuide.com. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  43. "GGG Blogger Battle". Hulu.com. Retrieved April 16, 2021.
  44. "J. Kenji López-Alt Debunks Burger Myths, The Burger Show". Complex. Retrieved November 2, 2020.
  45. de Guzman, Dianne (October 31, 2020). "Netflix show features Bay Area chef superstars in SF episode". SFGATE. Retrieved November 2, 2020.




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