Career
Chef John also contributes eCookbooks, recipes and videos to the online food network His video recipes have over 250 million views on He has also authored a cookbook for Parragon Publishing entitled, "America"s Family Favorites: The Best of Home Cooking". John Mitzewich graduated from Paul Smith"s College, New York, in 1983. He received an Associate of Applied Science Degree, with Honors, in Culinary Arts/Chef Training, and was also honored as the school"s 1983 "Outstanding Chef Training Student.".
He "held just about every position possible in the food industry" including Executive Sous Chef at the Carnelian Room, Sous Chef at Ryan"s Café, and Garde Manger at the San Francisco Opera.
Chef John was a Chef Instructor at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco for five years before leaving to focus on teaching people to cook online. Although Mitzewich"s blog is his central website for his recipes, he also has an accompanying channel.
He currently has over 1,350,000 subscribers to his channel "foodwishes" with more than 250,000,000 views. Mitzewich has a content partnership deal with
After acquiring the Food Wishes blog site in 2011, Chef John has contributed recipes to He currently stars in Allrecipes newest eCookbook, "Chef John"s Best Dishes.".