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Brad Miller (chef)

American professional chef

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ108803466 ↗
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Brad Miller (born 1981) is an American professional chef and TV personality. He is the host of the Cooking Channel’s Food Truck Nation. He was a contestant on season 3 of the Fox Network reality TV show Hell's Kitchen, finishing 6th.

Miller was born and raised in Ottawa, Illinois. He graduated from Le Cordon Bleu Culinary Institute of Scottsdale in Arizona. He is the chef and partner at Inn of the Seventh Ray in Topanga, California, and executive chef of Five Star Senior Living, an organization that operates residential senior communities.

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The public source identifies “Brad Miller (chef)” as american professional chef. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Brad, Miller and chef.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Brad, Miller and chef providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Brad Miller (chef)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.