Eitan Bernath American Chef Born 2002 in Teaneck

Early life

Eitan Bernath was born on 25 April 2002 in Teaneck, New Jersey. His mother is a high school mathematics teacher and his father is an occupational therapist. He attended the Yavneh Academy and the Frisch School, and he later enrolled at Columbia University. In 2022 he left his bachelor's programme at Columbia's School of General Studies and chose instead to pursue the Level 3 Award in Wines from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust.

Career

Bernath's first television appearance came at age twelve, when he competed on the Food Network programme Chopped. Three years later he was a contestant on another Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games. In 2019 he began to build a large audience on TikTok with cooking tutorials, and he has said that the platform is the main reason for his career. In 2020 his following grew on Instagram, where he was an early user of the Reels format. That March he performed on TikTok's "#HappyAtHome: Live!" shows, and in July he joined Rachael Ray for a celebrity cooking camp. He was a featured creator at VidCon US in 2021, and in October of that year he appeared at the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco.

He hosts three syndicated shows on Snapchat: Eitan Bernath, Eitan's Test Kitchen and Eitan's Food Lab. According to the trade site Tubefilter, they drew 29.2 million unique viewers and 201 million minutes of watch time in 2021. His brand partners have included Warner Brothers, SharkNinja, Cup Noodles, Red Star Yeast, Dreams Resorts and Spas, Chefman and the government of Thailand.

In December 2020 he became the principal culinary contributor to The Drew Barrymore Show on CBS. Variety described him as the first TikTok star to move into a recurring role on daytime television. He has cooked on air with Jason Derulo, Gordon Ramsay and Molly Sims. He also appears on programmes including Good Morning America, Live with Kelly and Ryan, The Good Dish and A Little Late with Lilly Singh. He writes for food publications such as Food & Wine, Saveur, Delish, The Kitchn, Food52 and The Nosher, and he has also contributed to the Washington Post and the Houston Chronicle. In 2022 he published a cookbook, Eitan Eats the World: New Comfort Classics to Cook Right Now, with Clarkson Potter. His YouTube channel had about 362,000 subscribers in May 2025, and his Instagram account has more than 800,000 followers.

Recognition

In June 2018 New York Jewish Week included Bernath in its 36 Under 36 list. In September 2021 Forbes placed him on its Next 1000 list, and that December he was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in the food and drink category, the youngest person in that category to be admitted. The Algemeiner included him in its J100 selection in December 2022.

Public roles

In February 2023 Bernath was appointed a high-level supporter of the United Nations World Food Programme. He has served on the City Harvest Food Council in New York since November 2021, as its youngest member, and he co-chairs the host committee for the organisation's fundraising events. He is an ambassador for the New York animal rescue Animal Haven. In December 2022 he travelled to Patna, in Bihar, India, in partnership with government agencies on a project to reduce poverty.

Personal life

Bernath was raised in an Orthodox Jewish household and lives in Manhattan.