Cat Cora Net Worth
Cat Cora Net Worth: Cat Cora is a professional chef who has a net worth of $4 million. She is best known for appearing on “The Iron Chef” and co-hosting “Around the World on 80 Plates”.
Cat Cora was born on April 3, 1967 in Jackson, Mississippi. Cora comes from a long line of chefs and grew up in a family of restaurateurs in Jackson, Mississippi. She cites Julia Child, Barbara Tropp, MFK Fisher and her own grandmother Alma as her inspirations. When creating recipes, she likes to blend Greek and Southern flavors. She is the co-founder of Chefs for Humanity, an organization that brings together chefs and culinary professionals to provide emergency and humanitarian assistance to address hunger around the world.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Physiology and Biology from the University of Southern Mississippi and attended (and graduated) from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. She has appeared on Simplify Your Life and co-hosted “Kitchen Complete” on the Food Network.
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She is the only female chef in history to join the Iron Chef series in America. She shares Kitchen Stadium’s “Wall of Fame” with fellow Iron Chef Mario Batali, Bobby Flay and Masaharu Morimoto. She is assisted by Lorilynn Bauer and David Schimmel, her specialty is Greek and Aegean cuisine. She also hosts The Muppets Kitchen with Cat Cora, a web series she cooks with the Muppets.
In 2011, she opened her eponymous bar and restaurant at San Francisco International Airport. Cora opened The Ocean restaurant in February 2013 at SEA Aquarium at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore. The 63-seat restaurant is housed in the world’s largest aquarium, with breathtaking views of deep-sea wildlife from every table.
