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ABOUT CHAD CARNS
Upon graduation from Art Institute of Pittsburgh, Chad Carns moved to New York City to create the next Super Bowl commercial but quickly realized that he needed to feed his passion for food & wine.
Carns eventually put his award-winning, graphic design career on hold to study global cuisine and wine at the Institute of Culinary Education.
“We work hard during the week, I enjoy Friday nights at home with good food, great wine and close friends,” says Carns.
Inspired by fresh, everyday ingredients from local markets on Bleecker Street and his travels to La Boqueria, Barcelona; Open Market, Hong Kong; Campo de Fiori, Rome; The South Pacific and Caribbean islands, Carns created Friday Night In!
In his tiny Bleecker Street apartment above John’s Pizza, Carns prepared a quick and easy version of complex restaurant dishes with less ingredients and more flavor to impress his Friday night date. One year and a stack of original recipes later, Chad’s Friday Night In! became the place where friends, family and food media influencers stopped by to taste his latest original recipe.
Chad proudly says, “I would rather spend more time chillin’ with friends and less time in the kitchen.”
Chad has fond memories of his Italian grandmother’s huge Sunday dinners back in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. “Her home was an open invitation for friends and family to stop by and say hello,” Chad remembers. I miss my family. “Friday Night In! is my way to honor my grandmother’s kindness and generosity by hosting a dinner party every Friday for my extend family in Greenwich Village. There’s only one request: Guests bring a nice bottle of wine!
Carns decided to write The Gourmet Bachelor: Global Flavor, Local Ingredients cookbook exclusively from recipes approved by “Friday Night In! guests. Chad asked Christie’s Senior Wine Consultant Justin Christoph to write a basic wine 101 guide and pair each dish with wine, beer, sake or specialty cocktail.
Chad recruited a talented team of international chefs, wine professionals, photographers, stylists, web developers, editors and publicist to help support his vision of a high end, high concept cookbook.
Chad Carns Cooking Balsamic Chicken
Chad Carns published The Gourmet Bachelor: Global Flavor, Local Ingredients cookbook and then traveled around the country to support his national crusade to bring global flavors home in a quick and easy way.
Conde Nast and Hearst had been so impressed with Chad’s crusade to bring exciting, global flavor home with fresh, local ingredients that they awarded him Honorary Guest Chef of their New York City cafe. His signature Korean BBQ sold out in 30 minutes.
Carns is a regular guest judge at the French Culinary Institute, contributes to local philanthropic events, recently gave a private vegetarian cooking class to Tony award-winning actor Alan Cumming and participated in NY Culinary Experience where he asked Food Network, Iron Chef Morimoto which dish he prepared to impress the ladies as a bachelor. Check it out!
Chad has been featured on The Today Show, Miami, (NBC), Toni On! NY (WPIX), Top Chef (Bravo), Connecticut Style, Marie Claire, The Villager, Next magazine and Snooth.com.
You can see Chad on TV, cooking at celebrity events or giving live cooking demos at culinary destination around the country.
From Chad Carns:
“Greenwich Village has been my home for over a decade. As I walk down Bleecker St—like a magnet—I’m hit with the intoxicating aromas of garlic, olive oil, fresh seafood, ginger, bacon, coconut curry & saffron. Braised short ribs catch my olfactory sense as I pass my favorite Korean BBQ place until I walk down Houston St to meet Italian pork shoulder roasting from the open doors of my local rustic Italian trattoria. My daily epicurean journey ends with a familiar stool at the local Spanish wine bar on MacDougal when I ask Jorge for a glass of spicy Rioja and a plate of thinly sliced Chorizo.” – Chad Carns
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