The foundation supports the annual American Wine & Food Festival which benefits Meals on Wheels it has raised more than $15 million since its inception. He co-founded the Puck-Lazaroff Charitable Foundation in 1982. Wolfgang Puck is active in philanthropic endeavors and charitable organizations. Since 2003, Puck's recipes have been syndicated worldwide to newspapers and websites by Tribune Content Agency. In 1991, Puck opened his fourth restaurant, Granita, a seafood restaurant in Malibu, California.
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He also made a cameo appearance as himself on an episode of Tales from the Crypt, and appeared in a TV commercial advertising the state of California (along with famous people such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jack Nicholson). He was featured as a guest judge on Season 7 of MasterChef. He also appeared as himself on Iron Chef America: Battle of the Masters, as well as Cooking Class with Wolfgang Puck on The Food Network, and in an American Idol season finale episode where he introduced unusual foods to Kellie Pickler in comic relief segments. He is the official caterer for the Academy Awards Governors Ball, and has parlayed his celebrity into acting his credits include Frasier, a recurring role as himself on Las Vegas and a cameo appearance in The Weather Man. The Wolfgang Puck Companies encompass over 20 fine dining restaurants, among the top 40 Restaurants in the U.S., premium catering services, more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express operations, and kitchen and food merchandise, including cookbooks, canned foods, and coffee products. His success enabled him to launch the Wolfgang Puck Companies which includes the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. The Infatuation wrote that "Spago made Wolfgang Puck the first (and maybe only) chef you and your grandma know by name." It has been recognized as one of the Top 40 Restaurants in the U.S. Fifteen years later, in 1997, Puck and Barbara Lazaroff, his ex-wife and business partner, moved the award-winning Spago to Beverly Hills. After two years at La Tour in Indianapolis, Puck moved to Los Angeles to become chef and part owner of Ma Maison restaurant.įollowing the 1981 publication of his first cookbook, Modern French Cooking for the American Kitchen, which was based on his Ma Maison recipes, Puck opened the restaurant Spago on the Sunset Strip in 1982. He trained as an apprentice under Raymond Thuilier at L'Oustau de Baumanière in Les Baux-de-Provence, at Hôtel de Paris in Monaco, and at Maxim's Paris before moving to the United States in 1973 at age 24. The marriage produced two younger sisters and a younger brother for Wolfgang. He took the surname of his stepfather, Josef Puck, after his mother's remarriage. He learned cooking from his mother, who was a pastry chef. Puck was born in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria.
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