Anne Burrell died Tuesday (June 17) at age 55. The TV chef is greatest identified for teaching culinary fumblers by way of tons of of episodes of ‘Worst Cooks in America.’ In accordance with the Related Press, the Meals Community confirmed Anne Burrell’s dying. Burrell started her two-decade tv profession on the community’s ‘Iron Chef America’ and went on to do different exhibits with the TV large.

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Anne Burrell Died In Her House At Age 55

Police have been known as to Anne Burrell’s tackle earlier than 8 a.m. Tuesday. Officers discovered an unresponsive girl within the house and shortly pronounced her lifeless. On the time, the police division didn’t launch the lady’s title, however data present it was Burell’s tackle, per AP. The reason for Burrell’s dying stays unclear, however health workers are set to conduct an post-mortem.

As talked about, FN confirmed Burrell’s dying in a heartfelt submit, expressing the community’s profound unhappiness on the information. Its assertion concluded by providing ideas to Anne’s household, pals, and followers for his or her “super loss.”

“Anne was a exceptional particular person and culinary expertise — instructing, competing and at all times sharing the significance of meals in her life and the enjoyment {that a} scrumptious meal can deliver,” Meals Community additionally mentioned.

Household Speaks As Anne’s Dying Follows Current TV Appearances

Survivors embody Anne Burrell’s husband, Stuart Claxton, whom she married in 2021. She was a stepmother to his son. Burrell additionally leaves behind her mom and two siblings.

“Anne’s mild radiated far past these she knew, touching hundreds of thousands internationally,” the household mentioned in an announcement launched by the Meals Community.

Burrell was on TV screens as not too long ago as April. In certainly one of her many appearances on NBC’s ‘As we speak’ present, she cooked hen Milanese cutlets topped with escarole salad. Moreover, Anne confronted off in opposition to different prime cooks on the Meals Community’s ‘Home of Knives’ earlier within the spring.

Recap Of Anne Burrell’s Culinary Life

Anna Burrell was born Sept. 21, 1969, within the central New York city of Cazenovia, the place her mother and father ran a flower retailer. She earned an English and communications diploma from Canisius College. Afterward, Anna secured a job as a headhunter however hated it, she mentioned in a 2008 interview with The Put up-Commonplace of Syracuse.

Having at all times beloved cooking, she quickly enrolled within the Culinary Institute of America. She graduated in 1996, however later taught on the college. After her 1996 commencement, she spent a 12 months at an Italian culinary college and labored in upscale New York Metropolis eating places for some time.

“Anytime Anne Burrell will get close to scorching oil, I wish to be round,” Frank Bruni, then-food critic on the New York Occasions, wrote in a 2007 assessment.

By 2008, Burrell was internet hosting her personal Meals Community present, ‘Secrets and techniques of a Restaurant Chef,’ and her TV work grew to become a spotlight. Through the years, she additionally wrote two cookbooks, ‘Prepare dinner Like a Rock Star’ and ‘Personal Your Kitchen: Recipes to Encourage and Empower.’ The chef was concerned with meals pantries, juvenile diabetes consciousness campaigns, and different charities.

In the end, she grew to become identified for her daring and flavorful however not overly fancy dishes, and her spiky platinum-blonde hairdo.

Enjoyable Reality: Anne Hated Consuming The Meals On ‘Worst Cooks In America’ 

Beginning in 2010, Burrell and numerous co-hosts on ‘Worst Cooks in America’ led groups of kitchen-challenged individuals by way of a crash course in tasty self-improvement. On the primary present in January of that 12 months, contestants introduced such unlikely private specialties as cayenne pepper and peanut butter on cod, and penne pasta with sauce, cheese, olives, and pineapple.

The completed cooks, together with Anne Burrell, needed to style the dishes to judge them. Burrell confessed in an interview with The Tampa Tribune on the time that it was torturous. Nonetheless, Burrell caught by way of 27 seasons, making her final look in 2024.

“If individuals wish to study, I completely love to show them,” she mentioned on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ in 2020. “It’s simply them breaking unhealthy habits and getting out of their very own manner.”

In her private life, Burrell’s tastes have been easy. She advised The Put up-Commonplace that her favourite meals was bacon, and her favourite meal was her mom’s tuna fish sandwich.

“Cooking is enjoyable,” she mentioned. “It doesn’t must be scary. It’s creating one thing nurturing.”

R.I.P. Anne Burrell! 

Related Press Employees Jennifer Peltz contributed to this report by way of AP Newsroom.