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Top: From Jordan's Instagram account, risotto with beet green and jalapeno pesto, brown butter sunchokes with pistachios and grilled tomato and basil pork sausage.

Above: Two of the winning dishes from the 2016 fourth annual cooking competition by the Arizona Republic and azcentral.com: appetizer shawarma deviled eggs and dessert orange blossom olive oil cake with sweet corn and black pepper ice cream.

events has really given him the comfort and satisfaction in August of 2021 and asked him to appear on to call Arizona his home. In late March, Jordan will be Guy’s Grocery Games. When Jordan received the call he partnering with PJ Library to teach young kids how to was over the moon excited. Within a week, Jordan was on cook in a one-day event. This event gives Jordan the a plane and the show was being filmed. Jordan described opportunity to not only support his Jewish community his experience on the show as a once-in-a-lifetime but also gives him the ability to have his young son watch opportunity and extremely challenging and fun. He said and participate in the work that he loves so much. he would participate again in a heartbeat.

Jordan started cooking when he was a young child While Jordan can cook anything, he tends to favor the living in Detroit. From watching his Bubbie and mom flavors and cuisine of the Middle East. In Guy’s Grocery cooking and helping in the kitchen, Jordan developed a Games, Jordan was told to stay within this region for the passion to keep connected with his competition. While he would have family and culture through creating recipes and honoring his family by “ I love cookbooks and liked to experiment with other food regions, he took this situation keeping the recipes alive. “I love cookbooks and have over 200. But have over 200. But what I in stride. While everything looks seamless on screen, Jordan what I loved most was the Rolodex loved most was the Rolodex reflected on some of the challenges file of my mom's that has handwritten he encountered. As Jordan family recipes. This takes me back to file of my mom's that has pointed out, “your grocery store cooking with my mom and Bubbie”, where you shop at you know where said Jordan. As Jordan was collecting handwritten family recipes. everything is, and your kitchen photos, he noticed that most of the you know where everything is. We pictures included his family cooking This takes me back to were given and eating together. He said that so 30 minutes to familiarize ourselves much of his Jewish identity was about cooking with my mom with the store’s layout.” One of the food. Eating food as a family, cooking food together, and sharing life and Bubbie.” funniest challenges Jordan shared was when he was trying to cook experiences through food helped to Chicken Shawarma. He couldn’t shape his life and inspire his culinary ~Jordan Urnovitz find the meat tenderizer, so he passion. ended up using his fist to tenderize

Although he has no formal culinary training, Jordan the chicken. As Jordan said, “you have to improvise when has an amazing ability to create dishes that are inspiring, things go wrong in the kitchen.” One always thinks that unique, and full of flavor. He has a way of pairing a chef never has a kitchen disaster or mishap. However, ingredients that not only capture the flavors of the region Jordan has given home chefs everywhere some comfort but also that play homage to his culture. Jordan once in knowing that they are not alone and mistakes can described himself as a nomad. He said that he travels and do happen in the kitchen. Jordan said that the most extensively through his cooking. During Covid, Jordan important aspect is to be adventurous, have fun, and love decided to research and learn how to cook food from what you are doing and the recipe will come together. a different country every day. What he hadn’t planned For those of us who are intimidated by long recipes on, was that Covid was going to last a lot longer than he or just fearful about messing up in the kitchen, Jordan thought. So far, Jordan has made it through 57 countries shared a bit of advice, “don’t be afraid to deviate from the and is still on a roll. In looking back at Covid, Jordan said, recipe and make substitutions when you can. Sometimes “it gave him the ability to try things that he never would a dish may not be working out the way you intend, but have done.” by adding a sauce or a unique spice you may just find the

Prior to the start of Covid, Jordan received a call best flavors.” The greatest takeaway that Jordan shared from the Food Network Channel. The producers had was that anyone can be inspired to cook and to not let discovered Jordan through his Instragam posts, blog, and your fear stop you. What really hit home was when through winning the 2016 Arizona Top Home Chef. At Jordan said, “you really have to enjoy the process of first, Jordan thought the call was a joke or a scammer. cooking. You have to love to cook and be more interested Once he realized the call was legitimate, he was ready in the process, rather than the outcome. It takes hours for any challenge thrown his way. The producers had a to cook a meal and only 10 minutes to eat it. You have to show in mind to highlight home chefs. Unfortunately, enjoy the idea of cooking for hours and make it fun and Covid ended up delaying and then eventually putting the adventurous.” Jordan has many ideas on his future plans, original show idea on the back burner. After a 1 ½ year of so we will stay tuned, and hopefully, we will be seeing delays, the producers over at Food Network called Jordan Jordan again in the near future.