Chris Fischer

Chris Fischer
Born/Date of Birth: 1980
Place of Birth: Chilmark, Massachusetts, United States
Spouse: Amy Schumer (m. 2018)
Parents: Albert Fischer III
Books: The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook: A Year of Cooking on Martha's Vineyard
Children: Gene David Fischer
Siblings: Molly Fischer

Chris Fischer is an American chef and farmer who is from Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. He is married to stand-up comedian and actress Amy Schumer.

Biography
A Martha's Vineyard Islander, Fischer grew up on a farm and learned about food from his father, Albert, a former commercial fisherman, who taught him how to hunt, fish and farm. Fischer spent much of his boyhood at Martha's Vineyard and went to a two-room schoolhouse that has since been converted into a police station.

When he became a chef, he worked under Mario Batali at Babbo while living in Manhattan. He also cooked in Europe, working at the American Academy in Rome and London's The River Cafe before returning to Martha's Vineyard to work there full-time in 2007.

Fischer ran his family farm, Beetlebung Farm, a five-acre property that his grandfather purchased in the 1950s or in 1961. He was the executive chef at the Beach Plum Inn & Restaurant for several years and was awarded the 2014 StarChefs.com Coastal New England Rising Stars Award.

Personal life
Fischer married comedian and actress Amy Schumer on February 13, 2018, in Malibu, California. On May 5, 2019, Schumer gave birth to their boy, named Gene. Gene was initially given the middle name "Attell" as an ode to Dave Attell, however, on April 14, 2020, it was announced that his middle name was officially changed to "David" after they realized "Gene Attell" sounded like "genital." Schumer revealed in her Netflix special Amy Schumer Growing that Fischer is on the autism spectrum.

Awards
His cookbook, The Beetlebung Farm Cookbook, which memorialized a year of cooking and living on Martha's Vineyard, won the 2016 James Beard Award for American Cooking.