Sergio Puglia
Sergio Daniel Puglia Silva is a Uruguayan chef, restaurateur, presenter and businessman.
Career
Sergio Puglia states he completed a master's in hospitality and gastronomy at the University of Salzburg, with no publicly available official documentation to confirm it University of Salzburg. In the business sector he managed the restaurant Luciano Federico, owned by Juan Carlos López Mena. He served as gastronomic director of Buquebus until 1993 and managed his own restaurant Puglia Restaurante. He also serves as a gastronomy professor at the Technical Hotel Institute of Uruguay, of which he is the founder.Television
He was a producer and columnist in various media. His first program was El Club de la Buena Vida broadcast by National Television. Since 1990 he has been presenting the interview program Puglia Invita, initially broadcast on National Television and later on Channel 10. He also presented different programs on that channel, for example, TVEO a Diario, La Noche, Malas Compañías, Puglia & Compañía, Con gusto and En su salsa.Between 2017 and 2019 he served as a judge in the four seasons of MasterChef Uruguay, broadcast by Channel 10. He also participated in its spin-offs MasterChef Profesionales and MasterChef Celebrity. Since 2019 he has been part of the panel of ''Polémica en el Bar.''