After leaving 'Bon Appetit' and starting her personal YouTube channel, Claire Saffitz additionally discovered the time to get married! Here's what we learn about her husband.
Former Bon Appetit Test Kitchen star Claire Saffitz has been wildly busy since leaving the e-newsletter's YouTube channel. Between beginning her personal YouTube channel and finalizing her first cookbook Dessert Person: Recipes and Guidance for Baking with Confidence (in the center of a pandemic, oh my!), the baker has been insanely busy.
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But in between these exciting professional updates, Claire has also shared glimpses of private information on her social media — together with that she's now married!
While her husband remains largely off of Claire's social media, here is what we know about him and their dating.
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Claire's husband is former chef Harris Mayer-Selinger.
Given that Claire is a well known baker, it's no surprise that her husband also works in the culinary global. In a piece on Grubstreet, Claire talked somewhat bit about her courting with former New York City chef Harris Mayer-Selinger.
Harris is currently the chef-owner of Creamline, the restaurant of dairy corporate Ronnybrook Farm, in the Chelsea Market. He's been with the restaurant since its opening in 2015 and converted Creamline to be extra delivery-friendly for the pandemic.
"We moved in together last summer and I relocated from Carroll Gardens to the Upper West Side," Claire wrote of her courting with Harris. "As a former chef, he has a much different concept of ‘home cooking’ than I do. Fortunately, he cooks for us a lot.”
Having a husband who works for the restaurant extension of a dairy farm also means their house is always packed with fresh dairy products, something Claire said she really enjoys.
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According to his LinkedIn profile, Harris has also served as the chef de cuisine at Five Points Restaurant and the sous chef at Hundred Acres after graduating from the Culinary Institute of America in 2007. Harris is also the president and founder of Hospitality Made Simple, a hospitality and restaurant consulting firm.
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Claire and Harris got married in 2020.
We're not sure how long the couple has been together, but Claire revealed she and her husband tied the knot privately while she was spending some time offline as she transitioned out of her role at Bon Appetit and into her current professional endeavors. The baker decided to end her freelance contract with the publication after it received backlash for its treatment of staff members of color.
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"I've taken a damage from online lifestyles just lately and focused like so many folks on how to reside healthfully and responsibly amidst such a lot of demanding situations," she wrote in an Instagram post, which shared the video trailer for her cookbook. "I have invested and reinvested in relationships and spent a large number of time occupied with how I would like the long run to seem professionally and in my view. (To that finish, I additionally were given married!)"
Unfortunately, there were not any lovely wedding photos that got here with this announcement, but the pair had been together for the better part of two years a minimum of prior to deciding to wed (in a pandemic no less). It's additionally unclear when exactly the couple got engaged, as they have got no longer disclosed a lot of their dating publicly.
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