Cedar Grove Chef Competes for Next Iron Chef Title
Food Network Star and Cedar Grove native Amanda Freitag takes on popular cooking competition.
Chef Amanda Freitag has always been a proud Jersey girl, having grown up in Cedar Grove before moving to New York to become a Food Network television star. Freitag moved to Cedar Grove with her parents when she was in second grade and later graduated from what was then known as Cedar Grove Memorial High School. She moved out when she started at the Culinary Institute of America but always comes back home for the holidays. Freitag got her culinary start right in her hometown and worked as a busgirl and a banquet waitress at the Friar Tuck Inn, now The Grove catering hall, which was located on Pompton Avenue. “I fell in love with the restaurant industry and I was interested in the kitchen and how it all worked,” said Freitag. “My home …
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