Aarón Sánchez

All About Aarón Sánchez

He's an award-winning chef, restaureur, author and Food Network host and judge.

Aarón Sánchez Bio

Aarón Sánchez is an award-winning chef and televison host. He is co-host of the new Restaurant Impossible: Last Call, a judge on Food Network's hit series Chopped and the host of Cooking Channel's Emmy-nominated Taco Trip. He is also the host of two Spanish-language TV series on Fox Life: 3 Minutos con Aarón and Motochefs. Aarón's passion, commitment and skills have placed him among the world's leading contemporary Latin chefs.

Celebrated by critics and contemporaries alike, Aarón has won a James Beard Award for Television Studio Program and has appeared at the White House as a guest chef. He has also starred on multiple Food Network shows, including Guilty Pleasures, Best.Ever, Heat Seekers, Chefs vs. City, Best Thing I Ever Ate and Next Iron Chef.

Aarón is chef/partner of restaurants Adobo Cantina and Johnny Sánchez. In addition to being a chef, restaurateur and television personality, Aarón has written three cookbooks: La Comida del Barrio, published in May 2003; Simple Food, Big Flavor: Unforgettable Mexican-Inspired Recipes from My Kitchen to Yours, released in October 2011; and Where I Come From: Life Lessons from a Latino Chef was published in October 2019.

Aarón previously designed lines of cookware products in collaboration with IMUSA and is a spokesperson for its Global Kitchen line; he currently collaborated on a seasoning and marinade line with Williams Sonoma.

Aarón works with many charitable organizations. He is a chef ambassador for WhyHunger and Food Bank NYC, both leaders in the movement to end hunger and poverty. He is also a chef mentor for Chefs Move!, a scholarship program whose mission is to diversify kitchen leadership by providing minority applicants the opportunity to train up and become leaders in restaurant kitchens and in their communities.

Aarón's creativity extends beyond the kitchen. He is a partner at Daredevil Tattoo in New York City, a world-famous shop and home to the country's premier tattoo museum. Aarón is an avid music lover; he enjoys cooking to the sounds of Alabama Shakes, Amos Lee, Lenny Kravitz and The Cure.

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