Claire Saffitz’s Husband – Harris Mayer-Selinger Wiki (Bio, Age, Height, Net Worth, Kids)
For several years, popular American Youtube personality, pastry chef, and food writer, Claire Saffitz kept her dating life a big secret from the entire world. However, recently the rumor about her wedding came out in the open. All the rumor about her being married to fellow chef Harris Mayer-Selinger is absolutely true. However, very few of you know about Harris Mayer-Selinger.
Harris Mayer-Selinger was born in Port Washington, New York on July 19, 1984. However, he stays in New York City, New York at the moment. His ethnicity is Caucasian and his religion is Jewish. However, nothing much is known about his family background.
Harris Mayer-Selinger is 5 feet 10 inches tall and has a considerable body weight. He is gifted with two prominent dimples on his cheeks and his eyes are a nice blend of green, brown, and grey shades.
Social Media Presence and His Net Worth
Although Harris Mayer-Selinger is on Instagram, he does not prefer outsiders, apart from his followers, to pry on his social media. He has 702 followers on Instagram with 8 posts of his own. The reason for his secrecy on Instagram is not yet known to many. However, he is more active on his Facebook profile, which he set up to share his own recipes with the people.
Harris Mayer-Selinger studied Culinary Arts at The Culinary Institute of America for almost a year. This was between 2006 and 2007. Prior to that period, Harris went to Cornell University from 2002 to 2006. He studied B.S in Hospitality Management there. For his high school education, Harris Mayer-Selinger went to Paul Schreiber Senior High School.
He started his career as a chef by working for Hundred Acres as a Sous Chef. With time and proper experience he soon became Chef de Cuisine at Five Points Restaurant. This was before he landed his most recent job. Ever since the month of October 2015, Harris Mayer-Selinger has been working as a managing partner with Creamline in the Greater New York City area. All this while, he continued serving in the position of the president and founder at Hospitality Made Simple. According to a report, Harris Mayer-Selinger has accumulated a net worth of more than $1.5 million.
His Life with Claire Saffitz
It was on the 16th of May, 2020 that Harris Mayer-Selinger and Claire Saffitz got married to each other. However, it was not before September of that year that the entire world came to know about their wedding. Claire is the star of the popular web series Bon Appetit. She was the one who revealed the happy news to the entire world that she and her boyfriend Harris Mayer-Selinger have finally got married to each other on the 8th of September.
The new couple started off living in the Upper West Side neighborhood of New York City. They had two cats named Felix and Maya. They loved the cats just like any parent would to their kids. However, as per the latest report, the couple does not have a child of their own. The two have been seeing each other since 2014. Claire, who always preferred to remain too secretive about her affairs, made it public that she was no longer single. There was a video taken for New York Magazine in which she revealed her daily life as a pastry chef. In one section of the video, she did mention the way her boyfriend looks like a chef.
Claire Saffitz – Who is She?
There are many of you who may not know much about Claire Saffitz. Just like her husband Harris Mayer-Selinger she was also born in a Jewish family. She did her graduation with a B.A. in US History and Literature from Harvard University. Later she decided to study French Cuisine and Pastry at Ecole Gregoire-Ferrandi in Paris, France.
With time, Claire Saffitz managed to get her master’s degree in History at McGill University. Her primary focus was French culinary history in the early modern era. She gained her popularity and recognition after she decided to become a contributing editor at Bon Appetit magazine and also after working as the host of the Bon Appetit Youtube channel. Her most notable was Gourmet Makes.
She decided to venture on to a new path and she soon decided to publish her cookbook that she named Dessert Person. This soon turned out to be one of the New York Times Best Sellers. In the meanwhile, Claire Saffitz continued to work as a video host on Youtube. This time she made her own channel. She also started working as a freelance recipe developer.