Biography of Joe Bastianich

Mission: dining

September 17, 1968 Joseph Bastianich was born on 17 September 1968 in New York City, the son of Felice and Lidia, Cook born in Pula. Her parents own two restaurants in Queens, "Buonavia" and "Villa": when she was thirteen, Joseph Bastianich family sells both to concentrate on investment out of another restaurant, the "Felidia", located on Manhattan's East Side, near the 59th Street Bridge. Meanwhile Joe attends Fordham Preparatory School in the Bronx, before enrolling at Boston College. Finished his studies, he worked on Wall Street as a bond trader at Merrill Lynch, but soon decides to leave work to devote himself torestorative activities with the rest of the family. In 1993 convince mom and dad to invest in a new restaurant in Manhattan, the "beak": the initiative get excellent success from an economic point of view, to the point that the family also decides to open new premises, Bastianich outside New York. Joe's parents divorced in 1997, after a marriage that lasted more than three decades: Happy decides to leave the business of restaurateur, and sells its shares to Joseph and the other daughter Tanya. Joe Bastianich, at that point, choose to invest more, and together with the chef Mario Batali opens the "Babbo Ristorante e Enoteca", receiving three stars from the New York Times food guide ". The collaboration between the two continues and translates into the other seven restaurants, all in New York: the "she-Wolf", the "bait", the "Casa Mono, Bar Jamòn", the "eight", the "place" and the "Eataly". Business is good, the Big Apple and beyond: in Los Angeles Bastianich inaugurates the "Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza", while in Vegas are opened the "B & B Ristorante, Enoteca San Marco" and "Carnevino". In 2002 Joe Bastianich published the book "Italian Wine: the regional wines of Italy", written two years earlier after a trip to Italy in the company of David Lynch, an expert on American wines. In 2005 the James Beard Foundation and the magazine "Bon Appétit" rewards Bastianich as "Outstanding wine and spirits professional", while three years later still the James Beard Foundation awarded him (with Batali) recognition for "Outstanding Restaurateur Award. In 2010 the "place" has the distinction of being the first Italian restaurant to receive four stars from the New York Times. In the same year, Bastianich also becomes a face for television, and was chosen as one of three members of the jury of "Masterchef Usa" (at his side there is Graham Elliot and Gordon Ramsay), talent show set in the kitchen. Not only United States, however: Joe Bastianich is called as a juror by the Italian version of "Masterchef", which airs on Sky from September 2011, alongside Carlo Cracco and Bruno Barbieri. The success of the program in Italy is extraordinary, to the point that the talent is reconfirmed for 2012 and transferred on Sky. That same year, Joe Bastianich publish "Restaurant Man", his autobiography, and is sentenced, together with Mario Batali, to provide compensation records (more than five million dollars) to its employees (over 1,000), guilty of having embezzled some of their tips (the complaint started two years earlier by Hernand Ricardo Alvarado and Stephane Capsolas, Cook and waitress at Babbo in Manhattan) to pay the salaries of sommeliers. In 2013 Bastianich in Italy opened the restaurant "Orsone" in Cividale del Friuli (where it already owns theFarm Bastianich), and once again vowed to "Masterchef Italy". Also performs with his band (The Ramps) at "Blue Note" from Milan.
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