Adriano Zumbo is an Australian pastry chef and pâtissier. On MasterChef Australia, Adriano Zumbo is known for his Croquembouche tower, V8 cake, and a fairytale mansion. He also goes by the moniker “Sweet Assassin,” “Patissier of Pain,” “He Who Mustn’t Be Baked,” “the Dark Lord of the Pastry Kitchen,” and “Lord Voldecake.”
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Childhood and Early Years
Adriano Zumbo is a 38-year-old businessman. He was born in Australia on November 6, 1981. Frank Zumbo is his father’s name, and Nancy Zumbo is his mother’s name. His parents, too, owned a small IGA supermarket. He grew up in Coonamble, New South Wales, with a sister named Rosalba Zumbo. Dubbo is 164 kilometres (102 miles) northwest of this location. Scorpio is his zodiac sign.
Furthermore, he is of Australian nationality and Italian heritage. While growing up in his parents’ IGA store, he developed a sweet taste and a good business acumen.
Zumbo was born and raised in Italy. He learned to appreciate several sorts of coffee while he was there. He expresses this in the coffee-inspired culinary dishes he sells in his several patisseries throughout Sydney. He also developed commercial and culinary interests while staying there.
In addition, after graduating from high school, he moved to Sydney to begin his pastry chef apprenticeship in 1997. In Australia and France, he also apprenticed under great chefs such as Ramon Morato and Pierre Hermé.
Career
Adriano Zumbo began his career by selling natively produced tarts, cookies, brownies, and banana bread to local Sydney cafés. He subsequently moved on to selling produce at farmer’s markets, and in 2007, he built his first patisserie in Balmain. Zumbo operates 10 patisseries in Sydney and Melbourne as of 2017. Balmain, Pyrmont, Rozelle, Chatswood, Waverley, Melbourne, and Sydney’s Queen Victoria Building are six of them.
In August 2018, Zumbo’s company was placed in voluntary administration, with plans to keep existing outlets running.
Similarly, he has starred in the six-part documentary television series Zumbo, which follows the chef’s everyday routine at his Balmain kitchen. In the year 2011, it was broadcast on SBS One. He has also been on every season of Masterchef, beginning with season 1 when he set a croquembouche challenge.
In his sixth appearance on MasterChef 2010, he challenged contestants to make a dish similar to his. The dish was a “tower of fear” of raspberry-beetroot and black olive macarons. Adrian sold 5000 macarons at his Balmain boutique in three days after the program aired, quadrupling the regular amount.
His vanilla V8 cake, which features layers of vanilla icing, crème chantilly, water gel, macaron, Brulee, chiffon, syrup, ganache, almond crunch, and almond dacquoise, was featured as a challenging dish on Masterchef in the 2010 season. This cake was designed in honour of Margaret Fulton’s 85th birthday and is named after the eight vanilla textures it contains. The identical layered cake was ranked number 8 in Good Food’s 2016 top 10 cult desserts in Sydney in June 2016.
He also co-hosted the Seven Network cookery show Zumbo’s Just Desserts with Rachel Khoo and Gigi Falanga in August 2016, and he is a judge in the 2018 Netflix series Sugar Rush alongside Candace Nelson.
Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo’s Fantastical Kitchen of Other-Worldly Delights, his first book, was published in 2011. Zumbo: A Novel is also one of his upcoming books. Adriano is a character in the film Adriano (2012) Zumbarons: a macaron fantasy land, Adriano Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo: Adriano Zumbo: Adriano Zu (2015) The Zumbo Files: a master patissier’s secrets are revealed. All of these novels were published by Murdoch Books in Sydney.
Networth
His net worth and salary are still under evaluation, despite the fact that he has earned a good sum of money via his hard work and dedication to work.
The TV show ‘Zumbo’
Zumbo is an Australian observational documentary television series about a patissier who runs a kitchen in Balmain, Sydney. This six-episode series premiered on February 10, 2011, and lasted for six weeks. Thursdays at 7:30 p.m., the series aired on SBS One. In addition, he is well-known for the macaron, which is his hallmark dish.
The first episode focused on the preparations for ‘Macaron Day,’ when the kitchen produces around 30,000 colourful macarons. They concentrated on the preparation of his new Summer Collection in episode 2. It is a collection of new creations displayed on a runway. Similarly, in Episode 3, he was seen returning to Coonamble, his hometown. He returned to help cater for one of the year’s most important occasions, his father’s 70th birthday.
Relationship
He is in a relationship, according to his personal life. Adriano Zumbo is dating Nelly Riggio, a participant on My Kitchen Rules. She is a dancer and the assistant manager of a Flight Centre in Brisbane. They began dating in December 2016, but only confirmed their relationship in January 2017. They are completely in love with each other and enjoy spending time together. In addition, they marked their one-year anniversary in December 2017.
Body Measurements
Zumbo appears to be of average height, while there is no information on his body measurements. He also has dark brown eyes and prefers a bald hairdo to complete his appearance.
Social Media
Adriano Zumbo is active on social media platforms such as Twitter and Instagram. He doesn’t have a profile on Facebook. He has amassed a sizable fan base. In addition, as of October 2020, he has 295k Instagram followers and 1280 posts. He also has 4.73k Instagram followers and 53.4k Twitter followers, both of which he joined in July 2009.