Aarti Sequeira
Birthday: Born in 1978-08-19 in Mumbai, India
Deathday: Alive
Aarti Lucica Sequeira (born August 19, 1978) is an Indian American cook and television personality, best known as the winner of the sixth season of Food Network's reality television show, The Next Food Network Star. In 2010, after her victory, her show Aarti Party premiered on the network. Following Aarti Party, she went on to host Taste in Translation on Cooking Channel, in which she seeks out the most popular dishes from around the world. She had previously worked as a CNN news producer and in 2008 started the online cooking variety show Aarti Paarti.
TV Credits
Superchef Grudge Match
Character: Self - Guest Judge
Darnell "Superchef" Ferguson invites superstar chefs to settle their disputes in a one dish, winner-takes-all heavyweight battle. The victors leave with $10,000, a prized knife from the losing chef's knife roll and bragging rights for life!...
Big Time Bake
Character: Guest Judge
In each of the six hour-long episodes, four bakers, along with their assistants, must bake non-stop in 3 rounds for 2 hours each. They first must complete creative cookies, next is decadent cupcakes and, finally, a showpiece cake; all from scratch and inspired by a surprise theme. As each round nears the two hour mark, Buddy and two rotating expert judges visit each baker’s station to taste and critique their sweets. With time still running and the bakers continuing to work, the judges determin...
Luda Can't Cook
Character: Self - Judge
Hip-hop icon, accomplished actor and successful restaurateur Ludacris is passionate about food but doesn’t have any culinary skills. Explore as he learns about different flavours and techniques and takes on exciting, new recipes...
Deliciously Twisted Classics
Character: Self
The all-new series features a panel of celebrity chefs and culinary influencers including Aarti Sequeira, Gina Neely, Leah Cohen, Rocco DiSpirito and more as they sample the most delicious and extravagant spins on familiar dishes....
Guy's Ranch Kitchen
Character: Self
Guy Fieri invites some of his heavy-hitter chef friends over for a spontaneous cook-off, where everyone comes up with big flavors and tasty dishes that can be made in anyone's kitchen....
Supermarket Stakeout
Character: Guest
Alex Guarnaschelli hosts as chefs square off in a competitive pop-up kitchen outside a grocery store. To make their challenge dishes, the chefs must size up shoppers as they exit the store and negotiate for their grocery bags....
Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives
Character: Self
Host Guy Fieri takes a cross-country road trip to visit some of America's classic "greasy spoon" restaurants — diners, drive-ins and dives — that have been doing it right for decades....
Halloween Wars
Character: Self - Judge
Cake decorators, sugar artists and pumpkin carving experts battle it out as they create Halloween-themed edible displays. The last team to scare off the competition will take home a $50,000 grand prize....
Christmas Cookie Challenge
Character: Herself - Judge
Holiday cookies are more than mere sweets: they are gifts, mementos of childhood, and most certainly made with pride. In this Christmas Cookie Challenge hosted by Jonathan Bennett, five confident and daring bakers compete to prove their holiday cookie-making skills. Tough-love judges Duff Goldman, Damaris Phillips, and Sherry Yard are on hand to crown the holiday cookie master, who will go home with a $10,000 prize!...
Wildcard Kitchen
Character: Herself
Three chefs bring $5,000 each to play three hands of an underground culinary poker game, creating dishes based on the cards they are dealt and betting with their own money. With unpredictable challenges and wildcard elements, chefs must rely on their instincts to impress mystery guest judges through blind taste tests and win cash from their fellow competitors....
Best Bite in Town
Character: Self
Guy Fieri tasks Noah Cappe and two Food Network chefs with going off the Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives path to find the best local dishes around....
Supermarket Stakeout
Character: Herself - Guest Judge
Alex Guarnaschelli hosts as chefs square off in a competitive pop-up kitchen outside a grocery store. To make their challenge dishes, the chefs must size up shoppers as they exit the store and negotiate for their grocery bags....
Superchef Grudge Match
Character: Self
Darnell "Superchef" Ferguson invites superstar chefs to settle their disputes in a one dish, winner-takes-all heavyweight battle. The victors leave with $10,000, a prized knife from the losing chef's knife roll and bragging rights for life!...
Candy Land
Character: Self - Judge
Five teams made up of professional cake and sugar artists navigate through the fantastical world of Candy Land as they are challenged to create confectionary showpieces, all the while being thrown curveballs that put their skills to the ultimate test....
Guy's Grocery Games
Character: Self
Guy Fieri sends four talented chefs running through the aisles in a high stakes, high skills, grocery store cooking competition. The chefs are hit by real-world challenges like finding workarounds when all the essential ingredients are suddenly "out-of-stock" or having to create a masterpiece when you can only cook with "5 items or less" or on a $10 budget. In the end, the food does the talking, as the last chef standing has the chance to make some serious dough!...
Clash of the Grandmas
Character: Self - Judge
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Cutthroat Kitchen: Knives Out
Character: Self
In Cutthroat Kitchen: Knives Out, hosted by Brian Malarkey, four chefs each start with $25,000 and face off in a high-stakes cooking competition where strategy is just as important as skill. Along the way, they can spend their cash to gain advantages—or sabotage their rivals. From stolen ingredients to destroyed utensils and wasted time, no tactic is too ruthless. In the end, only one chef will outcook and outsmart the rest to keep whatever money they have left....