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| rowid | name | first_name | last_name | gender | career_sec | personal_sec | info | occupation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 | Gabrielle Hamilton | Gabrielle | F | Following a career in catering, Hamilton opened the restaurant, Prune, in the East Village in 1999. She had no formal experience in restaurants, nor did she attend culinary school. Her 30-seat restaurant garnered widespread acclaim and admiration from diners, critics and other chefs including Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. Prune earned a spot in the Bib Gourmand section of the Michelin's 2014 New York guide. Hamilton was featured in the fourth season of the PBS show The Mind of a Chef. She also appeared as a guest judge on the first season of The Taste on ABC. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hamilton published a piece in the New York Times discussing the closure of Prune and broader implications of the pandemic for the restaurant industry in the United States. | Hamilton was married for 10 years to Dr. Michele Fuortes, an Italian-born teacher and researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College. They had two children, Marco and Leone, and later divorced. Hamilton is currently married to Ashley Merriman, who is her co-chef at Prune. | Following a career in catering, Hamilton opened the restaurant, Prune, in the East Village in 1999. She had no formal experience in restaurants, nor did she attend culinary school. Her 30-seat restaurant garnered widespread acclaim and admiration from diners, critics and other chefs including Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert. Prune earned a spot in the Bib Gourmand section of the Michelin's 2014 New York guide. Hamilton was featured in the fourth season of the PBS show The Mind of a Chef. She also appeared as a guest judge on the first season of The Taste on ABC. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hamilton published a piece in the New York Times discussing the closure of Prune and broader implications of the pandemic for the restaurant industry in the United States.Hamilton was married for 10 years to Dr. Michele Fuortes, an Italian-born teacher and researcher at Weill Cornell Medical College. They had two children, Marco and Leone, and later divorced. Hamilton is currently married to Ashley Merriman, who is her co-chef at Prune. | chefs |