John Mitzewich

John Armand Mitzewich, more commonly known as "Chef John", is an American chef known for publishing instructional cooking videos on the blog and YouTube channel Food Wishes, with over 4.5 million subscribers and 1.1 billion views. graduated from Paul Smith's College, New York, in 1983. He received an Associate of Applied Science Degree, with Honors, in Culinary Arts/Chef Training, and was also honored as the school's 1983 "Outstanding Chef Training Student".

Career Mitzewich has held various positions in the restaurant industry, including executive sous-chef at the Carnelian Room, sous-chef at Ryan's Café, and garde-manger at the San Francisco Opera. Mitzewich was an instructor at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco for five years before he left to focus on online teaching. Allrecipes later bought his channel. In 2011, he was awarded Best Home Chef in a Series by Taste TV.

YouTube Mitzewich began his Youtube channel, Food Wishes, in 2007.

Mitzewich deliberately keeps himself out of the shot on his YouTube videos, only displaying utensils, ingredients and his hands. He records the narration after the rest of the video is finished. His narrations are always done in a wandering and almost singsong tone of voice, a result of the editing process, in which he records each statement (consisting of a few words) several times and splices together the best takes. He includes one rhyming wordplay joke per video, usually of the form "You are, after all, the X of Y ", in which X and Y rhyme, X is a job title or the name of a celebrity, and Y is something relevant to the video. An example: "You are, after all, the Jim Kelly of what goes in your belly!"

Mitzewich includes powdered cayenne pepper in almost every recipe. He describes it as giving an "extra touch of the heat and bringing the unique tastes of the dishes forward".

As of June 2025, Mitzewich has over 4.61 million subscribers to his YouTube channel with over 1.1 billion views. Mitzewich has a content partnership deal with YouTube. Each episode was hosted by Mitzewich and lasted from 15 to 35 minutes, during which he and Scrivani lightheartedly discussed recipes and created "top five" lists on food-related topics.

Personal life In 2019, Mitzewich and his wife moved to Sebastopol, California, where the two purchased a home. Mitzewich has used the community tab on his YouTube channel to provide updates on the home's renovation.