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Josh Scherer
American celebrity chef and internet personality (born 1992) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Josh Scherer (born April 25, 1992)[1] is an American chef and internet personality who is best known as the host of the YouTube channel Mythical Kitchen.[2][3] Prior to hosting Mythical Kitchen, he was also the culinary producer for the YouTube web series Good Mythical Morning.[4]
He has also written two cookbooks, including The Mythical Cookbook, which became a #1 New York Times bestseller.[5]
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Early life
Josh Scherer was born on April 25, 1992, in Columbia, Maryland, to Russell and Henny Scherer. He has one younger brother, Jon Scherer. He grew up in the Little Saigon neighborhood of Westminster, California.[6]
Scherer graduated from Trabuco Hills High School where he played varsity basketball. He attended UC Santa Barbara before transferring to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). While there, he was a track and field athlete, competing in men's hammer throw, discuss and shot put.[1][7]
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While in college Scherer ran a food blog called Culinary Bro-Down, which later inspired his first cookbook of the same name. Three months after starting it in 2013, it was nominated by Saveur magazine in the Best Food Blog Awards category.[7] Scherer also said that he honed his cooking skills by watching the Food Network.[7][8] Additionally he began writing about food for Mojo, a column in the blog for UCLA's Daily Bruin.[7]
From late-2014 until mid-2015 Scherer was a columnist for Maxim magazine, where he wrote articles about food, primarily for a column called Bite Club.[9][8][10] From 2015 to 2016 Scherer was a senior food writer and associate food editor for Los Angeles Magazine.[6]
In 2017 he released his first cookbook The Culinary Bro-Down Cookbook, inspired by his blog of the same name, that he ran while in college.[8]
After sending a copy of his cookbook to Mythical Entertainment that they liked, he was brought on as the culinary producer for the YouTube web series Good Mythical Morning.[8] In 2019 he began hosting his own spinoff show called Food Fears. In 2020 he launched the YouTube channel Mythical Kitchen.[4] The channel's most well know series, Last Meals, where a guest shares what their last meal would be and then eats that meal, has featured many famous guests.[2][3][11][12] That same year Scherer launched the podcast A Hot Dog Is a Sandwhich that he co-hosts with fellow Mythical Kitchen chef Nicole Enayati.[13][14]
In 2024 Scherer and the YouTube comedy duo Rhett & Link released the cookbook The Mythical Cookbook. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller in the Advice, How-To & Miscellaneous category for one week.[5][15]
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Personal life
Scherer is married to Julia Levy Scherer, who he married in 2024.[16] He is also Jewish.[17]
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