Biography

Author of Booty Food and an actor since the age of seven, Jacqui Malouf has appeared in sitcoms, episodic television and regional and off-Broadway theater. However, Jacqui is best know as the sassy sidekick and sous chef to Bobby Flay in more than three-hundred episodes of Food Network’s Emmy-nominated Hot off the Grill with Bobby Flay. Time Magazine described the show as the sexiest thing to happen to food since “Jack and Chrissy got into that pie fight on Three’s Company.”

Episodes featuring Jacqui are currently broadcast six times a week on Food Network in the US, while the syndicated show appears twice daily across Canada, Australia, Europe and Asia with more markets being added all the time.

A regular member of the Food Network Family, Jacqui has also hosted Sara Moulton’s Cooking Live, Superfood Bowl and Cruising the Caribbean, and appeared on the Seasons Eatings and Emeril’s Viva Lagasse.

Jacqui can also be seen on the multiple Emmy Award-winning Subway Q&A, where she serves as the show’s relationship expert. She joins a noteworthy roster of guest hosts including Dick Cavett and Gordon Elliot. The series is broadcast on Time Warner’s MetroChannel throughout the tri-state area, with national rollout through CableVision currently being negotiated. Jacqui is also the host of CableVision’s Reservations Required and Full Frontal Fashion.

Cooking aficionados from coast to coast also know Jacqui as the host of Food Nework Live’s  Ready, Set, Cook!  for the past two years, she has traveled across North America performing live. Jacqui has been a presenter at the James Beard Awards three years running and is a celebrity judge for Share Our Strength chefwear competition presented by Nicole Miller. In addition, Jacqui is a frequent emcee for New York and national food media functions and charity events.

A big sports fan, Jacqui has hosted Direct TV’s NFL Sunday Ticket Kick-Off tour for two years, featuring all-star chefs and NFL quarterbacks acting as sous chefs. Furthermore, Jacqui has starred in ESPN’s award-winning children’s show, SportFigures for the past four seasons.

Comedy enthusiasts catch Jacqui’s relationship-oriented stand-up routines around the country at Caroline’s, the Comic Strip, Coconuts, the Laff Factory, and Cornelia Street Café in Manhattan where she has hosted her own weekly variety show, Tra La Lu.

She has also appeared on-camera and delivered voice-overs for hundreds of television and radio advertisements.

Jacqui’s love for acting is only rivaled by her love for food. She as been cooking for her boyfriends ever since her mom let her shave her legs and leave the house. Since then, she has worked in restaurants in every capacity from line prepping to bartending and manager. She gained further skills apprenticing Bobby Flay at Mesa Grill and Bolo in New York, and has subsequently contributed her own recipes to Share Our Strength/Canned Food Alliance Cookbook along with such celebrities as Rosie O’Donnell and Olympia Dukakis.

Her lifelong interest in foods comes from an interesting mixed heritage including Scottish, French, Spanish, Native America, and Lebanese. Though raised in Canada and now happily residing in Los Angeles, Jacqui has lived and traveled extensively through the Caribbean, South American and all over Europe, developing her own eclectic love of food.

Jacqui lives and cooks in Los Angeles with the five loves of her life: daughters Kenna and Georgia, husband and actor James McCauley, and dogs Puddin’ and Moo Shoo Pork #45.