Antoni Porowski
Emmy-Award Winning TV Producer and Culinary Expert
Antoni Porowski is a New York Times bestselling author, Emmy-winning producer/TV personality and a globally-renowned culinary expert with a lifelong passion for food.
He can next be seen hosting National Geographic’s Best of the World with Antoni Porowski, an immersive global travel series inspired by National Geographic’s iconic and long-running Best of the World list, bringing the beloved print feature from page to screen as Porowski showcases extraordinary destinations, cultures, and communities through food, storytelling, and local perspectives. The four-part series is set to debut this summer, and follows Porowski as he journeys across the globe, engaging with chefs, artisans, and locals to uncover what makes each place unique, while highlighting the powerful connection between cuisine and cultural identity.
Best of the World is Porowski’s second collaboration with National Geographic following last years’ critically acclaimed docuseries No Taste Like Home, which he executive produced alongside Gordon Ramsay's Studio Ramsay Global. The show explores the diverse cultural heritages of global celebrities by way of their ancestors’ culinary traditions, techniques, and experiences. No Taste Like Home received a Critics’ Choice Real TV award for Best Structured Series in 2025, and was also nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award as well as two Realscreen Awards.
Porowski is also known as the culinary expert on Netflix’s award-winning series Queer Eye, which aired its tenth and final season on Netflix earlier this year. The series has won twelve Emmy Awards, including six consecutive wins for “Outstanding Structured Reality Program”, breaking the category record for most wins. As a producer on the series, Antoni earned his first Emmy Award at the 75th Emmy Awards, alongside his co-hosts.
Amongst other television projects and endeavors, Porowski is an author of two cookbooks, and is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights everywhere, especially his family’s native Poland. He serves on the Food Council of City Harvest and is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme. These organizations respectively aim to end hunger in New York City, where he resides, and across the world.
He can next be seen hosting National Geographic’s Best of the World with Antoni Porowski, an immersive global travel series inspired by National Geographic’s iconic and long-running Best of the World list, bringing the beloved print feature from page to screen as Porowski showcases extraordinary destinations, cultures, and communities through food, storytelling, and local perspectives. The four-part series is set to debut this summer, and follows Porowski as he journeys across the globe, engaging with chefs, artisans, and locals to uncover what makes each place unique, while highlighting the powerful connection between cuisine and cultural identity.
Best of the World is Porowski’s second collaboration with National Geographic following last years’ critically acclaimed docuseries No Taste Like Home, which he executive produced alongside Gordon Ramsay's Studio Ramsay Global. The show explores the diverse cultural heritages of global celebrities by way of their ancestors’ culinary traditions, techniques, and experiences. No Taste Like Home received a Critics’ Choice Real TV award for Best Structured Series in 2025, and was also nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award as well as two Realscreen Awards.
Porowski is also known as the culinary expert on Netflix’s award-winning series Queer Eye, which aired its tenth and final season on Netflix earlier this year. The series has won twelve Emmy Awards, including six consecutive wins for “Outstanding Structured Reality Program”, breaking the category record for most wins. As a producer on the series, Antoni earned his first Emmy Award at the 75th Emmy Awards, alongside his co-hosts.
Amongst other television projects and endeavors, Porowski is an author of two cookbooks, and is an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights everywhere, especially his family’s native Poland. He serves on the Food Council of City Harvest and is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations World Food Programme. These organizations respectively aim to end hunger in New York City, where he resides, and across the world.