# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-kenji-lopez-alt
# Generated: 2026-09-04T21:11:19.466Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-kenji-lopez-alt"
name: "James Kenji López-Alt"
slug: "james-kenji-lopez-alt"
description: "James Kenji López-Alt is an American chef and food writer. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, became a critical and commercial success, charting on the New York Times Bestseller list and winning the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for the best General Cooking cookbook. The cookbook expanded on López-Alt's \"The Food Lab\" column on the Serious Eats blog. López-Alt is known for using the scientific method in his cooking to improve popular American recipes and to explain the science of cooking."
tagline: "American chef and food writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/J._Kenji_L%C3%B3pez-Alt_at_Tartine_Manufactory_in_November_2019.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1979-10-31"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           70.12
  momentum:             0.7495642068564785
  historical:           5.575582666666667
  currentAttention:     3.407110031165811
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 13
totalFollowers: 1760000
platforms:
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    handle:    "kenjilopezalt"
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
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    handle:    "kenjilopezalt"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "nm7879679"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.kenjilopezalt.com/"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqqJQ_cXSat0KIAVfIfKkVA"
    handle:    "@jkenjilopezalt"
    followers: 1760000
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    title: "J. Kenji López-Alt"
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    title: "جميس كنجي لوبز ألت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "J. Kenji López-Alt"
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "J. Kenji López-Alt"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump