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Emily Underhill Luchetti (née Emily White Underhill; born 1957) is an American pastry chef, cookbook author, and educator. She is a 2004 James Beard award-winner for Outstanding Pastry Chef.

Biography

Emily Luchetti was born in 1957 and raised in Corning, New York. She attended Denison University and graduated with a B.A. degree (1979) in Sociology. She continued her studies at New York Restaurant School (now The Art Institute of New York City) in Manhattan. After graduation she lived in Paris for a year, studying under chef Gérard Pangaud. In 1984, she married investor and businessperson, Peter Luchetti.

Luchetti has worked with New York City restaurants including David Leiderman's Manhattan Market; and at Sheila Lukins and Julee Rosso's The Silver Palate. In San Francisco, Luchetti has worked at restaurants including Mark Franz and Pat Kuleto's Farallon from 1997 to 2014; Mark Franz's Waterbar from 2008 to 2014; and Stars and with Jeremiah Tower from 1987 until July 1995. She also co-owned Star Bake, a retail bakery, with Jeremiah Tower.

Luchetti is a 2004 James Beard award-winner for Outstanding Pastry Chef. In 2012, she became a James Beard Foundation "Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America" inductee.

She is Dean of the International Culinary Center, founded at the French Culinary Institute in 1984, where she has developed a state-of-the art curriculum because she desired to influence the thinking of a new generation of pastry chefs.

Filmography

Luchetti has appeared on the television series Great Chefs, with appearances in Great Chefs - The Women, and Great Chefs - Great Cities. As well as appeared in the Food Network's The Ultimate Kitchen, Sweet Dreams, Cookin' Live with Sara Moulton, Essential Pepin, Martha Stewart Living, and Sara's Secrets.