Biography gray kunz

Singaporean-born Swiss restaurateur (1955–2020)

Gray Kunz (February 24, 1955 – March 5, 2020) was a Singaporean-born Swiss restaurateur, chef, and cookbook writer based in New York.

Kunz spent his early childhood in Singapore, which influenced his fusion style of cooking later in his life. He had a career that spanned three continents and was one of Manhattan’s most acclaimed chefs of the 1990s, when he worked for nine years at Lespinasse.^[1]

Biography

Born in Singapore on February 24, 1955, Kunz was raised there as well as in Switzerland.^[2] He received his culinary education in Bern, Switzerland.

He worked at the Beau Rivage Palace in Lausanne and Baur au Lac in Zürich.

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Then, Kunz apprenticed under Swiss chef Frédy Girardet for five years in Crissier.^[3] After that, he moved to the Regent Hotel in Hong Kong, where he learned French and Chinese cooking methods. In 1988, he moved to Adrienne at the Peninsula Hotel in New York.

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