Nancy Silverton
ABOUT NANCY SILVERTON
Chef who won the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award in 2014. She is a strong proponent of sourdough and artisan bread. She has more than 300,000 followers on her nancysilverton Instagram account.
She was a political science major at Sonoma State University but had an epiphany to become a chef her freshman year.
She dropped out of school to find formal training as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu in London. She was hired for Wolfgang Puck at Spago's in 1982.
Her mother Doris wrote for the soap opera General Hospital , and his father was a lawyer.
She and Tess Ward both studied at Le Cordon Bleu.
