Joshua Weissman

Joshua Weissman was born in Los Angeles, California. He started cooking at the ripe age of 4 years old with his mother. This became such a passion of his that by age 10, he was cooking daily for his parents and neighbors. By 16, Weissman was helping magazines and food photographers style food and write recipes. This led to a short period of blogging and ultimately publishing his first cookbook at 17. From there, Weissman worked in some of the best restaurants in the South Central Region of the United States -- more specifically, Odd Duck and Uchiko. He spent nearly three years at Uchiko working various positions, leading the morning cook team, and as a line cook.

In 2018, out of frustration for a lack of entertaining and quality cooking shows, Weissman began posting videos on YouTube while still working full time at Uchiko. After over a year of sleepless nights, he finally went full time with YouTube. Now he runs one of the largest cooking YouTube channels in the world with a social presence of over 22 million followers. Since then, he has authored two New York Times bestselling cookbooks and won a Streamy Award in 2025 for People’s Choice Best in Food.

Weissman has one major goal: provide any amount of entertainment for people through food to help the food community become bigger and better than ever. And in a best case scenario, to have someone see food and love food in the same way Weissman does, even if for a second.