Alex Guarnaschelli
| birth_place = St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. | birth_name = Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli |education=Horace Mann School, Barnard College (BA)| spouse = Brandon Clark (2007–2015) | children = 1 |known_for=Chef, cookbook author, television personality| alma_mater = Barnard College | ratings = | restaurants = | prevrests = | television = | awards = | website = }}Alexandra Maria Guarnaschelli (born June 20, 1969) is an American chef, cookbook author, and television personality. She currently serves as an executive chef at New York City's Butter restaurant and was executive chef at The Darby restaurant before its closing. Guarnaschelli studied cooking extensively in France.
She appears as a television personality on the Food Network shows ''The Kitchen'', ''Chopped'' (as a judge), ''Iron Chef America'', ''All Star Family Cook-off'', ''Guy's Grocery Games'' (as both a judge and a competitor), and ''The Best Thing I Ever Ate''. She hosts ''Alex's Day Off'', ''The Cooking Loft'', and ''Supermarket Stakeout''. In 2012, she won that season of ''The Next Iron Chef: Redemption''. In January 2022, she premiered her newest show, ''Alex vs. America'', also on Food Network.
In 2013, Guarnaschelli's first cookbook was published. ''Old-School Comfort Food: The Way I Learned to Cook'' mixes autobiographical details with favorite recipes from her professional life that she adapted for the home. Provided by Wikipedia