Juan-Carlos Cruz

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Juan-Carlos Cruz is a celebrity chef on Food Network. He hosts Calorie Commando and Take it Off (now titled Weighing In) on the network. Juan-Carlos lost a great deal of weight on a Discovery Health show called Discovery Health Body Challenge. Which is when he decided to do low-calorie cooking.

Cruz graduated in 1993 from theCalifornia Culinary Academy. In 1994 he started work at the Stanford Park Hotel, as pastry chef. In 1996 he started as pastry sous chef at the Hotel Bel Air. While at the Bel Air he created pastries for Gary Oldman, Jack Nicholson, Nancy Reagan, Will Smith, Oprah Winfrey, Jim Carrey, Joe Namath, Prince Phillip, Julia Roberts, and Russell Crowe.

In 2001 he started his website Pastrydude.com[link]

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