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Born and raised in Farmington Hills,
Michigan, Keith Famie currently makes his home in West Bloomfield,
Michigan. While still attending high school, he began working in
restaurant kitchens and after graduation, traveled the world working
in hotels located in such exotic locales as Brussels, Monte Carlo and
New York.
In 1988 Famie opened his own restaurant, Les Auteurs an American
Bistro, and in the same year was recognized in Food & Wine as one
of the "10 Best New Chefs" and Les Auteurs was featured in
Esquire Magazine's "Best New Restaurants of 1988." During
1993, Famie began appearing in cooking segments called "Famie's
Adventures in Cooking" for local Detroit television stations. The
popular segments ultimately led to several half-hour specials airing
in Detroit. In 1996 Famie opened Forte and was selected yet again in
Esquire's yearly "Best New Restaurants" — this time in
1997. Last year, he produced and hosted his first one-hour prime time
Emmy-nominated special, From Hanoi to China Beach a Taste of the
Exotic, a documentary that was based on a journey through Vietnam with
three Vietnam veterans on bicycles. Before it aired in Detroit, the
special previewed at the local Fox Theater. This spring his cookbook,
Famie's Adventures in Cooking, will be published by Sleeping Bear
Press.
Famie is a divorced father of two children, Josh and Alicia, and
describes himself as creative, adventurous, and just happy to be alive
each day, or as he puts it "everyday I wake up is a good
Day". In addition to spending time with his kids, Famie enjoys
biking, weight lifting, scuba diving, dirt bike riding, wall climbing,
herb gardening, touring unusual markets, collecting art, tennis and
hiking in the mountains.
Famie was recently voted President of the Rainbow Connection after a
two-year stint as Vice President. The Rainbow Connection is a
non-profit organization that helps grant wishes for children with life
threatening illnesses in Michigan. In addition, he is in the process
of developing a new foundation, IKAN or International Kid's Alliance
Network, a special internet-based program for children to be able to
develop pen pals and participate in live chat sessions with each
other. To date, he has orchestrated two such chat sessions, one from
Sydney, Australia and the other from Guadalajara, Mexico.
His birth date is February 11, 1960. |
