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Chef Dominique Crenn Is Living Life To The Fullest

Radio Cherry Bombe

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4.6592 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Chef Dominique Crenn is back on Radio Cherry Bombe! Best known as the chef-owner of the Michelin-starred Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, Dominique is also an author, cancer survivor, environmentalist, and philanthropist. She made this year’s TIME 100 list and married actor-writer-director Maria Bello in Cabo San Lucas this past May. She is also the cover star of the new Paris issue of Cherry Bombe magazine. Chef Dominique joins host Kerry Diamond to share which American TV show inspired her to move to California, how she talked her way into a link cook job with Jeremiah Tower, her battle against cancer, and meeting and marrying Maria. She also shares the emotional story about her adoption, and how a change in the French laws allowed her to learn about her earliest days. Thank you to OpenTable, Pernod Ricard, and Alex Mill for supporting our Radio Cherry Bombe. Click here to get your copy of Cherry Bombe’s Paris Issue with Chef Dominique Crenn on the cover. Visit Cherry Bombe’s Event Calendar for our Summer Series details. Hosted by Kerry Diamond Produced by Catherine Baker and Elizabeth Vogt Edited by Jenna Sadhu Content & Partnerships Manager Londyn Crenshaw Recorded at Newsstand Studios at Rockefeller Center Radio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Dominique: Instagram, Atelier Crenn, Cherry Bombe Paris issue More on Kerry: Instagram

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0:00.0

Hi, Boys and girls are all fired up.

0:07.0

I'm the founder.

0:09.0

The whole world's chicken, drinking, baby, and we're all about it.

0:15.0

Hi, everyone. You are listening to Radio Cherry Bomb, and I'm your host, Carrie Diamond.

0:21.6

I'm the founder and editor of Cherry Bomb Magazine. My guest today is Chef Dominique Cren,

0:27.1

a total force in the world of hospitality. I hope you've all seen that Dominique is on the cover of the brand new issue of Cherry Bomb magazine.

0:34.0

It's all about Paris, which happens to be a city that Dominique loves very much for many reasons, as you're about to learn.

0:40.7

Back here in the U.S., Dominique is the chef and owner of Atelier Cren, Bar Cren, and Petit Cren in San Francisco.

0:47.8

She is the only female chef in the United States who have been awarded three Michelin stars.

0:52.6

She is also an author, a cancer survivor, an

0:55.6

environmentalist, and a philanthropist. She was named to this year's Time 100 list, and right

1:01.0

after this interview, Dominique flew to Mexico and married her fiancé, Maria Bello, the Emmy-nominated

1:07.5

actor, director, and writer. Dominique is such a unique special human,

1:11.9

and I am thrilled to welcome her back to the pod.

1:14.5

Dominique and I talk about what she's been up to,

1:16.7

how she wound up in California,

1:18.4

and how she became a chef.

1:20.2

She also shares the incredible and emotional story

1:22.7

about her adoption.

1:24.7

Stay tuned for our conversation.

1:26.7

This interview was recorded at New Stand Studios

1:29.1

at Rockefeller Center in New York City. One more thing about Dominique before we get to our interview.

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