Klaus Friedenreich, CMC

Master Chef Klaus Friedenreich earned the Certified Master Chef title in 1993.

Career highlights:

  • Chef Friedenreich came to the United States from his native Germany in 1964 and spent the next 26 years in American restaurants and hotels.
  • He made significant contributions to the United States Culinary Olympics Team in 1980. He contributed three personal Gold Medals as the Captain of the team that won 30 Gold Medal Awards. Also, In 1984, and again in 1988, he was an advisor to the winning U.S. Olympic teams.
  • He was the recipient of the 2001 ACF National Chef of the Year award and prior to joining the staff of PCI, he was the Program Chair for the Culinary Arts program at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale.
  • He oversaw the student-run restaurant the Chef’s Palette, which won the 2005 American Culinary Federation Achievement of Excellence Award.
  • Chef Friedenreich cooked for U.S. Presidents Carter and Ford on their campaign trails when he was Corporate Chef for Dobbs House Airline Catering.
  • Chef Friedenreich created and ran Klaus’ Cuisine where he won 5 Golden Spoon Awards.
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