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Keith Famie
Keith Famie (born February 11, 1960, in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American chef-restaurateur and film director and producer. He famously appeared in Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001), finishing in third place.
Famie worked in restaurant kitchens while attending high school and in hotels around the world, including Brussels, Monte Carlo, and New York City, after high school graduation. Total amount of existing restaurants he worked globally was twenty-seven, and his prior occupations ranged from head dishwasher to head chef. By no later than 1987, he was the executive chef of Chez Raphael (Novi, Michigan) and wrote a travel cookbook The Flavor of Famie.
Famie opened a 200-seat American bistro Les Auteurs in the Royal Oak, Michigan, one year later in 1988. Its sales figures were $1.8 million in 1991 (equivalent to $4.2 million in 2024) and $1,920,710 in 1992 (equivalent to $4,303,720 in 2024). Also in early 1990s, Les Auteurs held seventy employees.
Famie appeared alongside another chef Edward Janos in a 1988 cooking video Feathered Fowl and Game. He was one of twelve finalists in 1988 competing to represent the United States for the January 1989 Bocuse d'Or championship. He lost the spot to another finalist Jeff Jackson. Famie also was listed by Food & Wine in 1989 as one of the "[ten] best new chefs". He alongside one of his recipes was featured in the 1990 Great Chefs of America calendar.
Famie established a rotisserie take-out chain Famie's Chicken in early 1990, which was eventually short-lived by no later than 1993. Between 1988 and 1993, he further established the Les Auteurs School of Cooking and a fifty-seat bar and restaurant Madison's. He also released a series of trading cards featuring chefs—a picture of a chef on obverse side; a chef's recipe on reverse side—starting in 1992. Ten percent of gross profits of the trading cards were sent to the Rainbow Connection, a non-profit charity assisting terminally ill children.
Famie closed the increasingly struggling Les Auteurs on June 27, 1993, and re-established the same site as the cowboy-themed Durango Grill in mid-August 1993. Famie sold the Durango Grill concept in September 1994 to and then joined Buscemi International, hoping to expand the business nationwide. Durango Grill was then closed in 1995.
Famie became a chef of a brasserie Forte in Birmingham, Michigan, in no later than 1997.
Famie founded a film company Visionalist Entertainment Productions in 1995. He produced a five-part television series covering Japanese cooking for WDIV-TV (Detroit) in late 1990s and the 1990s Detroit-produced travel and food series Keith Famie's Adventures in Cooking, later called Famie's Adventures in Cooking, seen by about 400,000 viewers of Detroit as of 1998. He produced a documentary special From Hanoi to China Beach: A Taste of the Exotic, shown in Fox Theatre (Detroit) for a charity event International Evening: Vietnam on August 28, 1999, and then aired two days later on WDIV-TV.
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Keith Famie
Keith Famie (born February 11, 1960, in Farmington Hills, Michigan) is an American chef-restaurateur and film director and producer. He famously appeared in Survivor: The Australian Outback (2001), finishing in third place.
Famie worked in restaurant kitchens while attending high school and in hotels around the world, including Brussels, Monte Carlo, and New York City, after high school graduation. Total amount of existing restaurants he worked globally was twenty-seven, and his prior occupations ranged from head dishwasher to head chef. By no later than 1987, he was the executive chef of Chez Raphael (Novi, Michigan) and wrote a travel cookbook The Flavor of Famie.
Famie opened a 200-seat American bistro Les Auteurs in the Royal Oak, Michigan, one year later in 1988. Its sales figures were $1.8 million in 1991 (equivalent to $4.2 million in 2024) and $1,920,710 in 1992 (equivalent to $4,303,720 in 2024). Also in early 1990s, Les Auteurs held seventy employees.
Famie appeared alongside another chef Edward Janos in a 1988 cooking video Feathered Fowl and Game. He was one of twelve finalists in 1988 competing to represent the United States for the January 1989 Bocuse d'Or championship. He lost the spot to another finalist Jeff Jackson. Famie also was listed by Food & Wine in 1989 as one of the "[ten] best new chefs". He alongside one of his recipes was featured in the 1990 Great Chefs of America calendar.
Famie established a rotisserie take-out chain Famie's Chicken in early 1990, which was eventually short-lived by no later than 1993. Between 1988 and 1993, he further established the Les Auteurs School of Cooking and a fifty-seat bar and restaurant Madison's. He also released a series of trading cards featuring chefs—a picture of a chef on obverse side; a chef's recipe on reverse side—starting in 1992. Ten percent of gross profits of the trading cards were sent to the Rainbow Connection, a non-profit charity assisting terminally ill children.
Famie closed the increasingly struggling Les Auteurs on June 27, 1993, and re-established the same site as the cowboy-themed Durango Grill in mid-August 1993. Famie sold the Durango Grill concept in September 1994 to and then joined Buscemi International, hoping to expand the business nationwide. Durango Grill was then closed in 1995.
Famie became a chef of a brasserie Forte in Birmingham, Michigan, in no later than 1997.
Famie founded a film company Visionalist Entertainment Productions in 1995. He produced a five-part television series covering Japanese cooking for WDIV-TV (Detroit) in late 1990s and the 1990s Detroit-produced travel and food series Keith Famie's Adventures in Cooking, later called Famie's Adventures in Cooking, seen by about 400,000 viewers of Detroit as of 1998. He produced a documentary special From Hanoi to China Beach: A Taste of the Exotic, shown in Fox Theatre (Detroit) for a charity event International Evening: Vietnam on August 28, 1999, and then aired two days later on WDIV-TV.