Jan D'Atri

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Television

2003 – Present Arizona Midday , KPNX (NBC) Ch 12 Phoenix, AZ Co – Host, Food & Lifestyle Contributor
2013 – Present Dacor Luxury Appliances Brand Ambassador
2001 – 2003 Jan D’Atri’s Heart and Home (hour daily KAZ – TV Ch 13) Phoenix, AZ Host/Producer
1997 – 2001 A Brighter Day with Jan D’Atri (weekly KTVK (ABC) Ch 3, Phoenix, AZ Host, Co – Producer
1994 – 1997 Southwest Style (hour monthly, KTVK (ABC) Ch 3, syndicated Host, Co – Producer
1990 – 1994 Under the Sun (weekly, KTVK Ch. 3,) ABC, Phoenix, AZ Host, Producer, Writer
1982 – 1989 Smitty’s Superstores, Arizona On Camera Spokesperson
1980 – 1982 World of People (daily syndicated, Hillier Productions, San Francisco, CA Host
1979 – 1980 PM MagAZine (daily, KTVK (ABC) Ch. 3, 1979) ABC, Phoenix, AZ Host
1978 – 1979 PM MagAZine (daily, Ch 2, KTVN (CBS) Ch. 2 Reno, NV Host
1976 – 1978 11pm Nightly News, KTVN Ch. 2, Reno, NV Anchor

Radio

2017 – present Food Expert, “Beth & Friends & Food, 99.9 KEZ, IHeartMedia
2009 – 2015 Phoenix Cooks with Jan D’Atri , 550 KFYI (Clear Channel) Phx, AZ Host and Producer
2007 – 2009 In the Kitchen with Jan D’Atri, Newstalk 550 KFYI (Clear Channel) Phx, AZ Host and Producer
2003 – 2007 The Jan D’Atri Show, Newstalk 550 KFYI (Clear Channel) Phx, AZ Host and Producer

Newspaper

2007 – Present “Rescued Recipes”, Newspaper Column, Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ Columnist
2003 – Present “What’s Cooking With Jan D’Atri” Newspaper Column, Times Syndication Columnist
2003.2007 “Room By Room” Newspaper Column, Arizona Republic, Phoenix, AZ Columnist

Online

Present The One Minute Kitchen and The One Minute Kid’s KIdchen, food videos
Design Your Cuisine, food and design videos
Affordable Eats, Affordable Drives, food and road trip videos
Arizona Farm Bureau Road Trips, food and road trip videos

Documentary Work

(Producing, Writing and Hosting)

  • The Humane Society
  • Make A Wish Foundation
  • Dalai Lama and Children As Teachers Of Peace
  • Rights of the Disabled
  • DUI, The Story of Joni Heil Brice

Awards

  • 3 Rocky Mountain Emmys (Regional) Producing, Writing, Hosting
  • 8 Rocky Mountain Emmy Nominations (Regional) Producing, Writing, Hosting
  • Chicago International Film Festival Award (National) Producing, Writing, Hosting
  • Telly Award (Commercials)
  • The Gabriel Award (National Programming) Documentary Producing, Writing, Hosting

Honors

  • 2017 Arizona Broadcast Hall of Fame Inductee
  • Lifetime Achievement Award, National Association of Television, Arts, and Sciences
  • Hall of Fame Inductee, Arizona Broadcasters Association
  • Outstanding Woman of the Year, Arizona Women in Radio and Television
  • Inductee, Scottsdale Culinary Hall of Fame
  • Humanitarian of the Year, Arizona Humane Society
  • Woman of the Year, Arizona Veterans of Foreign Wars
  • Named one of 25 Most Awesome Arizonans

Career in the Food Industry

I actually thought I would be a concert pianist! I was fortunate enough to study both at the San Francisco and British Columbia Conservatories of Music. Somewhere along the way Momma talked me into learning to play the accordion. (Don’t laugh. It’s really fun, and it kept me busy strolling table to table at my restaurants on very slow nights!)
In 1979 after taking a few journalism classes, I switched my career path to the media and never left it. I began as a weekend television reporter, then nightly anchor. When the lifestyle and entertainment television show PM Magazine hit the airwaves, I knew I had found my niche.
In 1990, with a TV career going strong, I armed myself with treasured family recipes and opened D’Atri Gourmet Foods in Arizona. My family and I re-created our specialties, D’Atri Italian Sausages and Biscotti and soon began to distribute our gourmet line nationwide. In 2005, Momma and I produced a special line of Biscotti Bites exclusively for QVC.
In 2001 I followed in my Momma and Dad’s footsteps by opening my first restaurant, D’Atri’s Cinema Paradiso in Scottsdale, a quaint and casual 14-table eatery named one of Arizona’s Top 100 Restaurants.
My second restaurant, D’Atri’s At The Scottsdale Airport incorporated fine dining and jet catering and we soon became a destination spot. We were often noted for our elegant Tuscan atmosphere, magnificent view of the Scottsdale Private Airport runway and our “Best Of Phoenix” homemade Panini Sandwiches!
In 2006, Momma and I collaborated on our first cookbook, Momma & Me & You, which chronicles Momma’s original recipes and stories from her own gourmet Italian restaurant, D’Atri’s at Lake Tahoe, which became a favorite gathering spot for celebrities during the 1950’s. The cookbook sold out in its first airing recently on QVC.
Momma and I then collaborated on our second cookbook, Rescued Recipes.
I have a fantastic husband named John Jeffrey who has been in the fine dining industry for nearly 35 years. Together we are the very proud parents of 24 farm animals including chickens, goats, burros, ponies, tortoises, dogs, cats and birds and a pigeon who snuck into the chicken coop and decided to stay.
One of my greatest accomplishments was learning to fly an airplane just because I had such a tremendous fear of flying. I’m still a private pilot and would love to someday get instrument rated.
My passions are fly-fishing and cooking, although it drives my Momma absolutely mad that I’ve never fried a fish that I’ve caught.