Celebrity chef speaker Jose Andres, also known as Jose Ramon Andres Puerta is a Spanish-born and raised chef who came to America, bringing with him the idea of small plates, a concept that has become wildly popular throughout the country. Celebrity Chef Andres is a restaurateur with a plethora of restaurants in the U.S., including…
Celebrity chef speaker and Culinary Icon Lidia Bastianich took her family’s history full of restaurant success and turned it to TV success in her late 50’s. Today, Chef Bastianich is a restaurateur, cookbook author, and award winning television personality. Chef Bastianich’s culinary career really took off when she turned her single restaurant into an entire…
Celebrity chef speaker Mark Bittman might have focused on his cooking skills after graduated from Clark University, but he never really got into the chef status. However, he has become one of the most popular celebrity chefs in both the cookbook and cooking television worlds. Celebrity Chef Bittman first began writing as a food columnist…
Ellise Pierce, also known as the Cowgirl Chef, started cooking at the early age of seven while growing up in Texas. Much like many others who started at this age, her cooking consisted of helping her mother cook with an Easy Bake oven. Chef Pierce would quickly outgrow that oven, and by the age of…
Like many chefs today, Celebrity chef speaker Dean Thomas found his passion for food as a dishwasher for a small Italian restaurant in his hometown of Chicago, Illinois. After studying culinary arts at Joliet Junior College, Chef Thomas moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina where he would eventually become Outlet Chef at the Westin Hilton…
Celebrity Chef Speaker Christopher Lee, originally from Huntington, New York, moved to California to receive his culinary education at the California Culinary Academy. From there, Chef Lee went on to continue his training in several restaurants on both the east and west coasts, including The Fifth Floor restaurant in San Francisco, Restaurant Daniel in New…