Chuck Hughes (born December 31, 1976) is a Canadian

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, television personality, and

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. He is the chef and co-owner of Garde Manger and Le Bremner, located in Old Montréal, with partners

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and Kyle Marshall Nares. Hughes fluently speaks both English and French.

Biography

He became a celebrity chef as the host of the English-language cooking series ''

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'' on the Food Network in Canada and on Cooking Channel in the United States. Since then, he has hosted a travel and cooking show called ''Chuck's Week Off: Mexico'', and ''Chuck's Eat The Street'', where he explores foods along a street in cities around the United States. Hughes competed on the American cooking show, ''

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'', defeating

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, becoming the youngest Canadian chef to win, and only the third to do so. He was a competitor on Food Network's '' The Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs'' competition. In 2014, Hughes was a recurring judge on season one of ''

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.'' He is also the co-host of Casas ''À couteaux tirés'', a French-language cooking competition show, based somewhat on the American series '' Knife Fight''.

Filmography

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Chuck and the First Peoples' Kitchen
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