Erez Komarovsky

Erez Komarovsky was born in 1962 in Tel Aviv

Erez Komarovsky was born in Tel Aviv in 1962 to Menachem and Ruth Komarovsky. As a boy he visited his father's almond orchards in southern Israel and tasted the food of the Druze families who harvested them. At 11 he moved with his family to Ramat Gan.

He served in the Armored Corps and fought in the 1982 Lebanon War. In 1983 he started working as a chef in Jaffa, then studied French cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris. In 1985 he opened a catering business in Tel Aviv and wrote a cooking column for the weekly Ha'ir.

He studied kaiseki cooking in Japan and lived in San Francisco from 1989 to 1994. Back in Israel he studied bread-making with Lionel Poilâne in Paris and trained in Berkeley bakeries. In 1996 he founded Lehem Erez in Herzliya with Ilan Rom, and in 2010 he sold his share.

In 2007 he opened a cooking school in his home in Mattat in the Upper Galilee. He hosted the TV show Galilean Cooking from 2008 and was a judge on Game of Chefs from 2019. In February 2022 he left the show after a press report alleged sexual harassment by him.

He holds secular, leftist views and petitioned against the law banning bread sales on Passover. He lives in Mattat with his partner, Professor Mickey Gluzman, whom he met in 1986.