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William Todd English (born August 29, 1960) is a celebrity chef, restaurateur, author, and television personality. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. He is best known for his restaurant, Olives, located in both Boston (now closed) and Las Vegas, plus his TV cooking show, ''Food Trip with Todd English'', on PBS. In 2005 he was a judge on the PBS show ''Cooking Under Fire''. His life and career received a chapter in ''Super Chef'' by Juliette Rossant who had written previously about English for the ''Forbes'' Celebrity 100 list.〔 〕 Todd English also works as lead chef for Delta Air Lines (US). == Early life and career == English was born in Amarillo, Texas, grew up in Sandy Springs, Georgia and later Branford, Connecticut.〔Cf. Rossant (2004), p.91〕 He matriculated at Guilford College in North Carolina on a baseball scholarship, but quit and entered the Culinary Institute of America in 1978 and graduated in 1982.〔Cf. Rossant (2004), p.95〕〔Atkinson, Kim, ("Being Todd English" ), ''Boston'' magazine, May 2006〕 He worked under Jean-Jacques Rachou at New York's La Cote Basque,〔 and then moved to Italy to work at several restaurants there.〔("Great Chef Todd English" ), ''greatchefs.com''〕 He returned to the United States at age 25 and served as the executive chef of the Italian restaurant Michela's in Cambridge, Massachusetts for three years before opening the original Olives restaurant in 1989.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Todd English」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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