Kristen Kish Biography – Kristen Kish Wiki
Kristen Kish is an American chef of Korean heritage best known for being the winner of Top Chef season 10. Previously, she served as the chef de cuisine at Menton in the Fort Point neighborhood of Boston. She hosts 36 Hours on Travel Channel and is a co-host of Fast Foodies on TruTV. She became an instructor at Stir, a culinary demonstration kitchen in Boston, Massachusetts. In 2012, she got a promotion to be Stir’s chef de cuisine by the owner, Barbara Lynch. She was the chef de cuisine at Barbara Lynch’s Menton Boston until March 2014. In 2017, she released a book of recipes co-authored with Meredith Erickson, Kristen Kish Cooking: Recipes and Techniques. In May 2018, she became chef at her new restaurant, Arlo Grey, in Austin, Texas.
She was a contestant in Bravo’s Top Chef in 2012. She was invited to participate in the qualifying rounds alongside her close friend from culinary school Stephanie Cmar, being tasked with creating a signature soup that would be judged by Emeril Lagasse. She passed the challenge and moved on into the competition proper. From there Kish won four elimination challenges, creating dishes as varied as French cuisine and onion rings, before being eliminated during “Restaurant Wars” (episode 11). She was able to win her way back into the main competition with five consecutive victories in “Last Chance Kitchen”, ultimately making it to the finale with Brooke Williamson. She defeated Williamson and was crowned the Top Chef, becoming the first competitor to win after winning “Last Chance Kitchen” and the second female winner in the history of the Top Chef franchise.
In 2015 she co-hosted the pilot season of 36 Hours, a series on the Travel Channel with Kyle Martino, a television analyst, and former soccer player. The show, an adaptation of the New York Times travel column of the same name, follows Kish and Martino as they spend 36 hours eating, drinking, and exploring a given city.
Beginning in 2021, she is one of three chefs featured on TruTV’s cooking competition show Fast Foodies, alongside Jeremy Ford (winner of Top Chef: California) and Justin Sutherland (winner of an Iron Chef America episode, participant on Top Chef: Kentucky). In each episode, a celebrity presents their favorite fast-food item. The chefs then compete in two rounds. First, they try to duplicate the dish as exactly as possible. Second, they re-imagine the item in an haute-cuisine interpretation. She also appears as a host in 2022, Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend.
She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted by a family in Kentwood, Michigan, at the age of four months. She worked as a model in high school. She attended Le Cordon Bleu in Chicago, earning an A.A. in culinary arts.
Kristen Kish Age
She was born Kwon Yung Ran on December 1, 1983, in Seoul, South Korea.
Kristen Kish Partner
She is married to her partner and wife Bianca Dusic. Dusic is the VP of Food & Beverage for Standard Hotels. On September 29, 2019, Kish announced her engagement to Bianca Dusic, in an Instagram post. They married on April 18, 2021. On March 28, 2014, she publicly came out after announcing the one-year anniversary of her relationship with her girlfriend at the time, Jacqueline Westbrook, over Instagram.
Kristen Kish Family
She was born in Seoul, South Korea, and adopted by a family in Kentwood, Michigan, at the age of four months. She has an older brother named Jon. She does not know her biological family. After living in a few orphanages as an infant, she was adopted when she was four months old. “As I grew up, I realized just how incredible it was to go from unwanted and abandoned by my birth mother to being part of a new, welcoming family, who felt only joy at my arrival,” Kish—Top Chef season 10 winner and Chef Barbara Lynch’s former chef de cuisine—wrote in the introduction of her new cookbook, Kristen Kish Cooking.
Kristen Kish Height
She stands at a listed height of 5 feet and 5 inches tall. She is relatively tall compared to her partner and wife Bianca Dusic.
Kristen Kish Instagram
Her Instagram handle is @kristenlkish.
