The Sunday Show with Ed Finn is coming to you this week from New York City with special guest Chef Franklin Becker - Chef Franklin is an award-winning chef, Top Chef alum, and autism awareness advocate. Working with Autism Speaks, together, they have raised more than $30 million dollars for autism charities.
A chef, a cookbook author, a community leader, and father, Chef Franklin fell in love with cooking as a teenager and fresh out of college attended The Culinary Institute of America. Since then, he’s worked in some of the nation’s most acclaimed kitchens and with great restaurateurs. His resume includes Executive Chef of Capitale, Brasserie, the Starr Restaurant Group, and Catch Group. As Culinary Director for all Aurify brands, he served as a founding partner of the fast-casual The Little Beet and its full-service restaurant The Little Beet Table and Hungryroot, providing his culinary inspiration to the vegan, gluten-free home delivery service.
Becker has garnered numerous accolades, including being named a Rising Star by StarChefs.com in 2006 and winner of The Burger Bash at the New York City Wine & Food Festival in 2011. Throughout his career, Becker has received glowing reviews from such acclaimed critics as Gael Greene of New York Magazine, William Grimes of The New York Times, who wrote that Becker has “a talent for delivering big, punchy flavors,” and while Becker was at Capitale in 2003, Esquire’s John Mariani named it “Best New Restaurant in America.” Becker is a regular on television, too, and has appeared on shows such as Top Chef Masters, Iron Chef America, The Today Show, Dr. Oz, and more.
As a leader in culinary cuisine Chef Franklin Becker has always been committed to giving back to the people, not just through his hospitality company or restaurant concepts, but through philanthropy.
