# James Kenji López-Alt

> He cooks with a thermometer in one hand and a hypothesis in the other. López-Alt built a following by treating recipes like experiments - questioning every rule, testing why onions caramelize or why some eggs scramble smooth - then writing it all down in prose that doesn't assume you already know.

*American chef and food writer*

**Canonical URL:** https://fame.am/person/james-kenji-lopez-alt

## Identity
- **Profile type:** Chef
- **Category:** Chefs
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1979-10-31
- **Status:** living
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born October 31, 1979, López-Alt turned his "Food Lab" column on Serious Eats into a 2015 book that applied the scientific method to everyday American cooking. The Food Lab landed on the New York Times Bestseller list and won the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for General Cooking. He co-founded Wursthall, a San Mateo beer hall, in 2017, then pivoted to YouTube with a first-person filming style that puts viewers inside the kitchen. A children's book, Every Night is Pizza Night, arrived in 2020. The Wok: Recipes and Techniques followed in 2022, zeroing in on a single pan - it became another bestseller and earned him a second Beard award.

## Fame
- **Popularity score:** 70.8 / 100
- **Momentum:** 1.4 / 100  (trend: STABLE)
- **Historical depth:** 5.6 / 100
- **Attention shift:** 6.5 / 100
- **Source confidence:** 60.0 / 100
- **Profile completeness:** 90.0 / 100
- **Category rank:** #19
- **Total followers across platforms:** 1,760,000

## Platforms
- **X**: https://x.com/kenjilopezalt (@kenjilopezalt)
- **INSTAGRAM**: https://www.instagram.com/kenjilopezalt/ (@kenjilopezalt)
- **WEBSITE**: http://www.kenjilopezalt.com/
- **IMDB**: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm7879679/ (@nm7879679)
- **YOUTUBE**: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqqJQ_cXSat0KIAVfIfKkVA (@@jkenjilopezalt, 1,760,000 followers)

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- [Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22278909)

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