TOP CELEBRITY CHEFS AND CULINARY EXPERTS

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All American Entertainment is the premier source for booking Celebrity Chefs. We have recently worked with chefs known for their popular TV shows on networks like Bravo, Fine Living, Food Network, and PBS. We not only secure celebrity chefs for appearances, but also represent companies who may be interested in having chefs for consumer marketing campaigns and media tours. Celebrity Chefs are a great way to attract people to your business through meet and greets at trade shows or grand openings.

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FEATURED CELEBRITY CHEFS

Art Smith

Celebrity Chef, Author & Humanitarian; Served as the Personal Chef of Oprah Winfrey

Chef Art Smith is the executive chef and co-owner of Blue Door Kitchen & Garden in Chicago, Southern Art & Bourbon Bar in Atlanta, Art & Soul in Washington DC, Art Bird & Whiskey Bar at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and...

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Live: $10,000 - $20,000

Virtual: $5,000 - $10,000

Travels From: Jacksonville, FL, USA

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Bobby Flay

Chef & Host of "Throwdown With Bobby Flay" and "America's Next Great Restaurant"

Born in New York City, Bobby Flay opened his first restaurant, Mesa Grill, in 1991. In the years since – with his unique amalgam of innovative food and inviting hospitality – Bobby has opened several restaurants, including Bolo, Bar...

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Travels From: New York, NY, USA

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Carla Hall

Celebrity Chef & Former Co-Host of "The Chew"

Carla Hall is a celebrity chef who is best known as a former co-host of ABC’s Emmy Award-winning, popular lifestyle series “The Chew.” She brightens the mornings of millions as a Culinary Contributor to “Good Morning America," and has...

Speaking Fee:
Live: $50,000 - $100,000

Virtual: $30,000 - $50,000

Travels From: Washington, DC, USA

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Cat Cora

World-Renowned Chef, Author, Restaurateur, Contributing Editor, Television Host, Actress, Avid Philanthropist, Health and Fitness Expert & Lifestyle Entrepreneur

Cat Cora is a world-renowned chef, author, restaurateur, contributing editor, television host and personality, actress, avid philanthropist, health and fitness expert, lifestyle entrepreneur and proud mother of six. The Jackson, Mississippi...

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Live: $30,000 - $50,000

Virtual: $20,000 - $30,000

Travels From: Santa Barbara, CA, USA

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Giada De Laurentiis

Chef and Host on The Food Network, Today Show Contributor

Emmy Award-winning personality Giada De Laurentiis has become a household name. With an impressive background of culinary training and a unique personable charm, she is a globally revered celebrity chef. She continues to prove her skill and...

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Travels From: Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Gordon Ramsay

Celebrity Chef, Restaurateur, Cookbook Author & Judge of FOX's "MasterChef"

Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in soccer, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel...

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Live: $200,000 and above

Virtual: $200,000 and above

Travels From: Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Guy Fieri

Host of "Minute To Win It" & "Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives"

From daytime to primetime, Guy brings his unique personality to television audiences multiple times a week. This likable, laid-back California "guy" with his trademark bleached blond spiky hair began his love affair with food at the age...

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Travels From: San Francisco, CA, USA

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Rachael Ray

Chef, Author & Host of the "Rachael Ray Show"

Rachael Ray is a syndicated television star, an iconic Food Network television personality, bestselling cookbook author, founder and editorial Director of her own lifestyle magazine and founder of the large non-profit Yum-o!...

Speaking Fee:
Live: $100,000 - $200,000

Virtual: $100,000 - $200,000

Travels From: New York, NY, USA

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Rick Bayless

Award-Winning Chef, Cookbook Author, & TV Personality Known for His Authentic Mexican Cuisine

Most people know Rick Bayless from winning the title of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, beating out the French and Italian with his authentic Mexican cuisine. His highly rated Public Television series, "Mexico–One Plate at a Time," is broadcast...

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Travels From: Chicago, IL, USA

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BBQ / Grilling Experts

Bobby Flay

Born in New York City, Bobby Flay opened his first restaurant, Mesa Grill, in 1991. In the years since – with his unique amalgam of innovative food and inviting hospitality – Bobby has opened several restaurants, including Bolo, Bar...
Myron Mixon

Myron is a BBQ legend and one of the most awarded men in competitive BBQ. He serves as chief cook of Jack's Old South Competition Bar-B-Que Team, which he started in 1996 as a way to promote his family's Bar-B-Que sauce, which was made by his...
Pat Neely

Pat Neely, the BBQ King, was introduced to the culinary world at the age of 11 in his mother’s kitchen and by grilling on the backpatandmom porch with his grandfathers. By the age of 15, he was working in his uncle’s BBQ restaurant in...
Ray "Dr. BBQ" Lampe

Ray Lampe grew up in Chicago and after high school spent 25 years in the family trucking business. In 2000 the trucking business had run its course, and it was time for Ray to try something new. He had been participating in BBQ cook-offs as a...
Roy Choi

Roy Choi is a tastemaker, chef, and disruptor. In 2008, Roy Choi and a crew of friends & family started what would be the beginning of the intersection between food, technology, culture, entrepreneurship, and long lines. That comet...
Steven Raichlen

Author, journalist, lecturer, and TV host, Steven Raichlen is the man who reinvented modern barbecue. His latest book is Project Fire. His 31 books include the international blockbusters The Barbecue Bible and How To...
Tuffy Stone

Tuffy Stone is many things: a World Record-breaking champion pitmaster, a former Marine, a classically-trained chef, a businessman and an occasional reality television star. Dubbed “The Professor”, Tuffy’s legendary precision and...

Executive Chefs

Cat Cora

Cat Cora is a world-renowned chef, author, restaurateur, contributing editor, television host and personality, actress, avid philanthropist, health and fitness expert, lifestyle entrepreneur and proud mother of six. The Jackson, Mississippi...
Darren McGrady

Darren was chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess of Wales and Princes William and Harry for fifteen years and has cooked for five US Presidents. He is now owner of ‘Eating Royally’ fine dining, author, culinary consultant, event planner...
Greg Richie

Greg Richie is Executive Chef and Partner of Thornton Park Restaurant Group. He is Executive Chef at Soco Restaurant and Baoery Asian Gastropub. He graduated with honors from the acclaimed Johnson and Wales University in Charleston. The...
Stephanie Izard

Stephanie Izard, James Beard “Best Chef: Great Lakes” recipient 2013, and 2011 Food & Wine “Best New Chef,” is the Executive Chef/Partner of four Chicago restaurants, Girl & the Goat, Little Goat, Duck Duck Goat and Cabra along...

Food Consultants

Antoni Porowski

Antoni Porowski is a chef, actor, model and television personality, known for being the food & wine connoisseur on Netflix's Queer Eye. At a young age Porowski was bitten by the culinary bug, spending countless hours in the...
Chef Lala (Laura Diaz-Brown)

Laura Diaz Brown, known as Chef LaLa, is an accomplished chef, cookbook author, food stylist, food consultant, certified nutritionist and motivational speaker. With her creative talents and training, this first generation Latina dynamo is making...
Dr. Irwin Adam

Toronto-based Dr. Irwin Adam Eydelnant is a food futurist who combines a background in engineering, biology, and technology with his passions for eating and design in the exploration of tomorrow food. He is a thinker and maker who creates...
Henry Dimbleby

Henry Dimbleby is co-founder of the award-winning Leon Restaurants. In addition to writing a column for The Guardian and popping up on Radio 4’s Kitchen Cabinet & BBC 1’s Saturday Kitchen, he is co-founder of the not-for-profit...
Jan Fields

Jan Fields is the former president of McDonald's USA, LLC, and one of the most widely recognized women in business leadership. Ms. Fields incredible career story started with French Fries in a McDonald's restaurant in Dayton, Ohio in...
John Mackey

John Mackey, co-founder and co-CEO of Whole Foods Market, has led the natural and organic grocer to a $14 billion Fortune 500 company with more than 410 stores and 88,000 team members in three countries. The company has been included on Fortune...
Sebastian Dumonet

"You don't say no to him," recalls Sebastian Dumonet of the offer he couldn't refuse. In his early twenties, Dumonet made a secret vow to his sister. By the age of twenty-six he would rise to the position of restaurant director, representing the...
Susie Fogelson

Founder and principal, Susie Fogelson, is the former Senior Vice President of Marketing and Brand Strategy at Food Network and Cooking Channel. The driving force in all aspects of strategy and messaging for both brands, Susie handled all...
Walter Robb

Walter Robb’s passion for organic, all-natural produce began over 40 years ago, gaining experience as a retailer, farmer and consultant throughout his career. Today, as the former Co-CEO of the Fortune 500 Company Whole Foods Market, Robb is...

Food Critics

Beth Dooley

Beth Dooley has covered the local food scene in the Northern Heartland for thirty years: she writes for the Taste section of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, and appears regularly on KARE 11 (NBC) television and MPR Appetites with Tom...
Gail Simmons

Gail Simmons is a trained culinary expert, food writer, and dynamic television personality. Since the show’s inception in 2006, she has lent her extensive expertise as a permanent judge on BRAVO’s Emmy-winning series Top Chef....
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt

Chef J. Kenji López-Alt is the Chief Culinary Advisor for Serious Eats, a site featuring some of the best, most thoroughly tested and explained recipes and food features. He is also the chef and a partner at Wursthall in San Mateo, California, a...
Melissa Clark

Food writer and cookbook author Melissa Clark is staff reporter for the New York Times Food section, where she writes the popular column “A Good Appetite” and appears in a weekly cooking video series. Melissa has written thirty-eight...
Michael W. Twitty

Michael W. Twitty a food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter personally charged with preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways and its parent traditions in Africa and her Diaspora and...
Samin Nosrat

Samin Nosrat is a chef and food writer, and she writes food columns regularly for The New York Times Magazine. As an undergraduate studying English at UC Berkeley, she took a detour into the kitchen at Chez Panisse restaurant that's...
Ted Allen

Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is host of Food Network's primetime hit competition series "Chopped," which challenges four up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. The show was...

Food Stylists

Buddy Valastro

For New York Times best-selling author Buddy Valastro, mixing eggs, sugar, butter and flour means a lot more than “making a cake.” As a fourth-generation baker, it’s a constant source of pleasure, pride and creativity. Creating amazing...
Duff Goldman

Duff Goldman is an award winning pastry chef and television personality, starring in numerous Food Network programs throughout the past decade, most notably "Ace of Cakes." Chef Duff Goldman started working for acclaimed Baltimore Chef...
Eddie Ross

Eddie Ross has worked as a design, decorating and food editor for House Beautiful, Martha Stewart Living and Food Network. Recognized by design aficionados for his inventive, out-of-the-box approach to high-style decorating and entertaining on a...
Jim Meehan

Jim Meehan, bartender, journalist, and author of The PDT Cocktail Book and Meehan’s Bartender Manual, has worked in nearly every capacity of the hospitality business for the latter half his of his 40 years on the...
Lizzie Kamenetzky

Lizzie is an English born food stylist and writer with natural flare and passion for beautiful food and fantastic recipes. Until recently the food editor of top title, delicious. magazine, she is now freelance putting all her skills and years of...

Cookbook Authors

Amanda Hesser

Amanda Hesser is an American food writer, editor, cookbook author and entrepreneur. Most notably, she was the food editor of The New York Times Magazine, the editor of T Living, a quarterly publication of The New York Times, author of The...
Antoni Porowski

Antoni Porowski is a chef, actor, model and television personality, known for being the food & wine connoisseur on Netflix's Queer Eye. At a young age Porowski was bitten by the culinary bug, spending countless hours in the...
Bob Blumer

Culinary adventurer, chef, artist and seven time Guinness World Record holder Bob Blumer is the creator and host of the award-winning shows Glutton for Punishment and Surreal Gourmet. Both air on the Food Network in Canada and the U.S., as well...
Carolyn Shelton

You could say Carolyn Shelton's life is a kind of gumbo, filled with a variety of ingredients that together have nourished many people in more ways than one. Ms. Shelton was born in Louisiana and raised in Texas. She learned most of her culinary...
Chloe Coscarelli

Chloe Coscarelli first earned national attention after winning the Food Network’s reality-competition series “Cupcake Wars”, as the first vegan chef to win a culinary competition on national television. Following her television...
Chrissy Teigen

Chrissy Teigen is a model and popular Twitter personality. She has also co-hosted such TV shows as "Lip Sync Battle," "FabLife," "Bring the Funny," and "Chrissy's Court." Model, TV personality, food blogger and social media star Teigen...
Curtis Aikens

A native Georgian, Curtis Aikens' attraction to produce began as a small boy, as he followed his Grandfather Aikens through the garden. His interest grew during high school, when he worked at the Conyers, Georgia A&P Market. I was supposed to...
Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud is Owner and Chef of several award-winning restaurants as well as the iconic Feast & Fetes catering company. While he hails from Lyon, France, it is in New York that he has truly mastered the culinary scene, so much so that...
David Rosengarten

Journalist, television personality, and cookbook author, David Rosengarten has covered great food products, restaurants, wines, gastronomic travel destinations, and related subjects for over 25 years. He has written hundreds of articles and...
Giada De Laurentiis

Emmy Award-winning personality Giada De Laurentiis has become a household name. With an impressive background of culinary training and a unique personable charm, she is a globally revered celebrity chef. She continues to prove her skill and...
Gordon Ramsay

Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in soccer, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel...
Jacques Haeringer

A beautiful day, great food, nice bottle of wine and maybe a little romance: how much better can life get? That's Chef Jacques Haeringer's philosophy: good food, good friends, a relaxing environment and tastes to be savored. For years he has been...
Jessica Seinfeld

Jessica Seinfeld is founder and president of Good+Foundation, a nonprofit that works to dismantle multigenerational poverty by pairing goods with services for low-income parents and caregivers. Since starting the organization as Baby...
Jessie James Decker

A larger-than-life talent in a petite package, the “little-bit-of Greek, and predominantly Italian” Jessie James has been ready for her close-up since she was two, when the well-traveled military brat, born a fiery Aries in a military field...
Jim Coleman

Chef Jim Coleman is one of America's only multi-media celebrity chefs, having mastered television, radio and print. He has been dubbed "the spatula-wielding king of all media" by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine, a title he continues to...
Jim Meehan

Jim Meehan, bartender, journalist, and author of The PDT Cocktail Book and Meehan’s Bartender Manual, has worked in nearly every capacity of the hospitality business for the latter half his of his 40 years on the...
Kristin Cavallari

Kristin Cavallari, contrary to popular belief, was not born in Orange County, CA. She grew up in Denver, CO until her parents divorced, then relocated to Illinois with her mother. A few years later, she joined her father in Laguna Beach in the...
Laila Ali

Laila Ali is a world-class athlete, fitness & wellness expert, TV host, cooking enthusiast, founder of the Laila Ali Lifestyle Brand and mother of two. The daughter of late beloved global icon and humanitarian, Muhammad Ali, she is a...
Marcela Valladolid

It's easy to lose sight of what traditional Mexican cuisine is when we're surrounded by inauthentic dishes such as overflowing burritos and nachos drowning in liquid cheddar cheese. Chef Marcela Valladolid is here to show us that anyone can...
Mary Ann Esposito

Professionally, Mary Ann has studied and taught in numerous cooking schools throughout Italy. In addition to producing 18 seasons of Ciao Italia, she has authored ten cookbooks on Italian food. Mary Ann’s tenth book, ‘Ciao Italia …...
Melissa Hartwig

Melissa Urban is the co-founder and CEO of the Whole30 program, and a six-time New York Times bestselling author. She has been featured by the New York Times, People, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Dr. Oz, and Good Morning America, and ranked...
Natalie Morales

Natalie Morales is the West Coast anchor of NBC’s “Today Show,” host of “Dateline” in syndication, and anchor of “Behind Closed Doors with Natalie Morales” on Reelz Channel. She was previously host of NBC’s “Access”...
Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray is a syndicated television star, an iconic Food Network television personality, bestselling cookbook author, founder and editorial Director of her own lifestyle magazine and founder of the large non-profit Yum-o!...
Reese Witherspoon

Reese Witherspoon is an American actress, producer, and entrepreneur. The recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and a Primetime Emmy Award, she is among the highest-paid actresses in the world, as of 2019....
Rocco DiSpirito

Rocco DiSpirito is a James Beard award-winning chef, best known for his restaurant, Union Pacific, in NYC and his many cookbooks. He is a healthy lifestyle crusader who is recognized for his inspiring weight loss journey. DiSpirito has...
Sarah Michelle Gellar

She starred in horror films such as The Grudge (2004) and I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), in family films such as Scooby-Doo (2002), and in indie films such as Harvard Man (2001). Gellar was born in New York City, the only child...
Shalane Flanagan

Shalane Flanagan is an Olympic medalist, four-time Olympian, American record holder, and world-class marathoner. She finished second at the 2010 NYC marathon and ran the fastest time ever by an American woman at the 2014 Boston Marathon,...
Stan Frankenthaler

Stan Frankenthaler is a chef and restauranteur currently serving as Chief Officer of Food & Beverage and Brewing & Strategic Supply at CraftWorks. After years of being chased out of the kitchens at both his grandmothers' homes in...
Steven Raichlen

Author, journalist, lecturer, and TV host, Steven Raichlen is the man who reinvented modern barbecue. His latest book is Project Fire. His 31 books include the international blockbusters The Barbecue Bible and How To...
Susan Feniger

Susan Feniger's passion for food has propelled her into a three-decade career as a successful chef, restaurateur, cookbook author, and media darling, with the Los Angeles Times recently saying, "She deserves an Emmy for energy." She spends most...
Tia Mowry

Sophisticated and savvy, engaging and entertaining, and an all around sweetheart, actress Tia Mowry is one of the most sought after talents in the entertainment business today. Mowry has been in the public eye for over 17 years, gaining initial...
Todd Richardson

A labor/employment and business attorney by trade, Todd began his career in private practice before becoming General Counsel and head of HR for the (then) fifth largest private residential real estate company in the U.S. Highly respected by his...
Tom Brady

Thomas Brady Jr. is an American football quarterback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League. He spent the first 20 seasons of his career with the New England Patriots, playing in nine Super Bowls and winning six of them, the...
Tony Mantuano

James Beard Award winner Tony Mantuano is an influential culinary force, a chef who has been on the ground floor of defining true Italian cuisine in the United States. In addition to his role as chef-partner at Spiaggia, Mantuano is the...
Tori Ritchie

As the host of Ultimate Kitchens, Tori has also spent enough time in kitchens to dream up blueprints in her sleep!Tori spent her childhood eating her way adventurously through the restaurants and markets of San Francisco. Three years after...
Valerie Bertinelli

The Golden Globe-winning star of the hit show One Day at a Time, Valerie Bertinelli emerged as the face of Jenny Craig following her exceptional public weight loss, for which she showed off her bikini-clad slimmed-down figure in the now-famous...
Zac Posen

Zac Posen launched his eponymous collection in 2001, with a vision for modern American glamour that married couture technique with striking innovation. Envisioned in his New York atelier, Zac introduced a collection that combined legendary...

Food & Wine Writers

Aida Mollenkamp

Best known as host of the Food Network's popular Ask Aida, Aida Mollenkamp has a diverse culinary background and a passion for sharing her knowledge with food enthusiasts. On her show, Aida focuses on one tasty topic (be it steak, eggs, cookies,...
Carolyn Phillips

CAROLYN PHILLIPS is a scholar, author, and artist whose work has appeared in Lucky Peach, Huffington Post, Alimentum, and Gastronomica. She is the author of All Under Heaven, the first comprehensive cookbook on the 35 cuisines of China (with more...
Jonathan Gold

Jonathan Gold is a Pulitzer Prize-winning food critic who currently writes for the Los Angeles Times and has previously written for LA Weekly and Gourmet. He is also a regular on KCRW's Good Food radio program. Gold often chooses small, ethnic...
Stu Nudelman

In addition to being an On-Air Host for his globally successful radio show WINE TALK WITH STU THE WINE GURU, Stu is a wine journalist for SIMPLY THE BEST MAGAZINE and HOLLYWOOD CIRCLE MAGAZINE. His wine articles and reviews have been read by...
Troy Johnson

Troy Johnson makes his Food Network debut as the host of Crave. The longtime music journalist turned food writer has appeared in national magazines like Spin and Surfer, as well as hosted a music TV show on San Diego’s Fox affiliate called Fox...

Healthy Cooking Experts

Bobby Deen

Bobby Deen has long been an essential ingredient in the recipe that has made his mother, Paula Deen, an American hospitality and cooking icon. The warmth and kindness that are so much a part of his mother’s persona are family traits that were...
Candice Kumai

Named “The Golden Girl of Wellness” by both ELLE and Forbes, Candice Kumai sits on The Well+Good Council and was recently chosen as one of Arianna Huffington’s “Top 20 New Role Models.” Kumai is a classically trained chef, former line...
Carla Hall

Carla Hall is a celebrity chef who is best known as a former co-host of ABC’s Emmy Award-winning, popular lifestyle series “The Chew.” She brightens the mornings of millions as a Culinary Contributor to “Good Morning America," and has...
Daphne Oz

Daphne Oz is a natural foods chef, New York Times Bestselling author, and former co-host of ABC’s hit lifestyle series “The Chew,” seated alongside restaurateurs and “Iron Chef America” stars Mario Batali and Michael Symon, “Top...
Devin Alexander

Devin Alexander is a Multi-Time New York Times Bestselling Author, Award Winning Entrepreneur, Sought After Keynote Speaker, Passionate Philanthropist and Celebrity Chef best known for decade-long stint as the Chef on NBC’s "Biggest Loser"....
Jessica Seinfeld

Jessica Seinfeld is founder and president of Good+Foundation, a nonprofit that works to dismantle multigenerational poverty by pairing goods with services for low-income parents and caregivers. Since starting the organization as Baby...
Keri Glassman

Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN, is a renowned celebrity nutritionist, healthy cooking expert, and wellness thought-leader. She is the founder and CEO of Nutritious Life and The Nutritious Life Studio, an online certification that provides...
Matthew Kenney

Matthew Kenney is an American celebrity chef, entrepreneur, author, and educator specializing in plant-based cuisine. He is author of 12 cookbooks and is the founder of the companies Matthew Kenney Cuisine and Matthew Kenney Culinary, a...
Melissa Hartwig

Melissa Urban is the co-founder and CEO of the Whole30 program, and a six-time New York Times bestselling author. She has been featured by the New York Times, People, the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Dr. Oz, and Good Morning America, and ranked...
Missy Chase Lapine

Missy Chase Lapine is best known as the originator of the wildly successful Sneaky Chef Method and series of books, including her flagship New York Times bestseller, "The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite...

James Beard Award Winners

Blaine Wetzel

Blaine Wetzel is the chef at The Willows Inn on Lummi Island. He began working in kitchens at age 14, and he’s never stopped. A dozen years later, he has studied and apprenticed widely, notably as Rene Redzepi’s chef-de-partie at noma in...
Gary Danko

Gary Danko is one of America’s most talented and respected chefs. His success can be attributed to his many years of study and hard work combined with a natural ability to create dishes of elegance and depth that evoke the simple pleasures and...
Grant Achatz

Grant Achatz is a chef and restaurateur, often recognized for his contributions to molecular gastronomy or progressive cuisine. His Chicago restaurant Alinea has won numerous accolades, and Achatz himself has won numerous awards from prominent...
Jimmy Bannos Jr.

Jimmy Bannos Jr., a fourth generation restaurateur, was 'born and raised’ in Heaven on Seven. Put to work bussing tables for his father at age 5, Jimmy learned the trade first hand while spending days at the family-owned Louisiana style...
Michael Solomonov

Chef Michael Solomonov is the Executive Chef/Co-Owner at Zahav, the 2019 James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Restaurant, a modern Israeli restaurant that brings the authentic flavors of Israel’s culture to Philadelphia. He is known for his...
Nancy Silverton

With partners Mario Batali & Joe Bastianich, Nancy Silverton is the co-owner of Osteria Mozza and Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles, Newport Beach, and Singapore, as well as Mozza2Go and Chi Spacca in Los Angeles. Silverton also founded the...
Sue Zemanick

New Orleans-based Sue Zemanick is the executive chef of Gautreau's Restaurant and her latest venture Ivy. In 2008, Food & Wine magazine named Zemanick one of the top ten best new chefs in America, a title later reflected in her five James...
Suzanne Goin

Suzanne Goin was born in Los Angeles to food-obsessed Francophile parents. A graduate of Brown University, Suzanne’s background includes positions at some of the most acclaimed restaurants in the United States, including Ma Maison,...
Tom Colicchio

Tom Colicchio is the chef and owner of Crafted Hospitality, which currently includes New York’s Craft, Riverpark and Temple Court; Los Angeles’ Craft Los Angeles; and Las Vegas’ Heritage Steak and Craftsteak. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey,...

Pastry Chefs

Anne Thornton

As an expert pastry chef, Anne Thornton shares indulgent recipes for tantalizing treats on her "In the Kitchen" Food Network cooking series, Dessert First with Anne Thornton. Anne demystifies and simplifies the world of pastry and...
Dominique Ansel

Dominique Ansel rose to fame in New York City, where he served as the executive pastry chef for Restaurant Daniel under celebrity chef Daniel Boulud. During his six year tenure at Daniel, the restaurant won its first three-star Michelin rating, a...
Duff Goldman

Duff Goldman is an award winning pastry chef and television personality, starring in numerous Food Network programs throughout the past decade, most notably "Ace of Cakes." Chef Duff Goldman started working for acclaimed Baltimore Chef...
Jacques Torres

Jacques Torres grew up in Bandol, France, a small town in the southern region of Provence. At age 15, he decided to try the world of baking. During his next vacation, he began an apprenticeship at La Frangipane, a small pastry shop in his...
Mindy Segal

Mindy Segal specializes in contemporary American cuisine, placing a modern twist on traditional classics. What makes her one of the best pastry chefs in America is her mastery of temperature, texture and taste. In a word, balance. Chef Segal...

Restaurateurs

Ashley Christensen

Since making Raleigh her home, Ashley Christensen has sought to foster community through food, philanthropy and the stimulation of the city’s downtown neighborhood. Ashley began cooking while in college, throwing dinner parties for her...
Barbara Lynch

James Beard Award-winner Barbara Lynch is regarded as one of Bostons, and the countrys, leading chefs and restaurateurs. While growing up in South Boston, Barbara, at the age of 13, got her first kitchen job cooking at a local rectory. It was in...
Curtis Stone

Curtis Stone is a chef, author and TV personality. His philosophy is to cook as Mother Nature intended: buy local, seasonal and organic ingredients, keep recipes simple, and allow the food to speak for itself. As host of "Top Chef...
Gordon Ramsay

Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in soccer, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel...
Guy Fieri

From daytime to primetime, Guy brings his unique personality to television audiences multiple times a week. This likable, laid-back California "guy" with his trademark bleached blond spiky hair began his love affair with food at the age...
Jose Garces

Since opening his first restaurant in 2005, Chef Jose Garces has emerged as one of the nation’s leading chefs and restaurateurs. Today, he is the owner and operator of more than a dozen restaurants in five cities. He is the 2009 winner of the...
Marcus Samuelsson

Chef Marcus Samuelsson is an internationally acclaimed chef who has thrilled the food scene with a blend of culture and artistic excellence. Marcus caught the attention of the culinary world at Aquavit. During his tenure as executive chef, he...
Michael Schwartz

The Philadelphia-born owner of The Genuine Hospitality Group, James Beard Award Winning Chef, and cookbook author, Michael Schwartz is the face of the South Florida restaurant industry and a nationally recognized celebrity chef. Since his...
Michael Symon

Renowned in the culinary world and adored in his hometown of Cleveland, Michael Symon is the chef and owner of critically acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio. Michael's pedigree started upon graduating from The Culinary...
Richard Blais

Perhaps most recognizable as the winner of Bravo's Top Chef All-Stars, Richard Blais has played an influential role in hospitality for the last 15 years. He began his career, as so many young aspiring chefs do, as the "poissonier" at...
Stephanie Izard

Stephanie Izard, James Beard “Best Chef: Great Lakes” recipient 2013, and 2011 Food & Wine “Best New Chef,” is the Executive Chef/Partner of four Chicago restaurants, Girl & the Goat, Little Goat, Duck Duck Goat and Cabra along...

TV Hosts

Bobby Flay

Born in New York City, Bobby Flay opened his first restaurant, Mesa Grill, in 1991. In the years since – with his unique amalgam of innovative food and inviting hospitality – Bobby has opened several restaurants, including Bolo, Bar...
Cat Cora

Cat Cora is a world-renowned chef, author, restaurateur, contributing editor, television host and personality, actress, avid philanthropist, health and fitness expert, lifestyle entrepreneur and proud mother of six. The Jackson, Mississippi...
Curtis Stone

Curtis Stone is a chef, author and TV personality. His philosophy is to cook as Mother Nature intended: buy local, seasonal and organic ingredients, keep recipes simple, and allow the food to speak for itself. As host of "Top Chef...
Giada De Laurentiis

Emmy Award-winning personality Giada De Laurentiis has become a household name. With an impressive background of culinary training and a unique personable charm, she is a globally revered celebrity chef. She continues to prove her skill and...
Gordon Ramsay

Scottish by birth, Gordon was brought up in Stratford-upon-Avon, England, from the age of five. With an injury prematurely putting an end to any hopes of a promising career in soccer, he went back to college to complete a course in hotel...
Rachael Ray

Rachael Ray is a syndicated television star, an iconic Food Network television personality, bestselling cookbook author, founder and editorial Director of her own lifestyle magazine and founder of the large non-profit Yum-o!...
Rick Bayless

Most people know Rick Bayless from winning the title of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, beating out the French and Italian with his authentic Mexican cuisine. His highly rated Public Television series, "Mexico–One Plate at a Time," is broadcast...
Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee is a Gracie and multiple Emmy® Award-Winning advocate, activist, philanthropist and an internationally acclaimed home life expert. She is a best selling author of 27 books and the Editor in Chief of Sandra Lee Magazine and...
Ted Allen

Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is host of Food Network's primetime hit competition series "Chopped," which challenges four up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. The show was...
Tyler Florence

For the past 15 years, Chef Tyler Florence has delighted the masses by sharing the sights, sounds and flavors of his unique culinary vision with fans around the world. After graduating from the prestigious culinary program at Johnson...

Wine Experts & Sommeliers

Andrea Immer Robinson

Andrea Robinson, one of the country's leading wine educators, is one of only 16 women in the world who have been appointed Master Sommelier by the prestigious Court of Master Sommeliers. She was the first woman ever chosen Best Sommelier in the...
Christine Ansbacher

Author and wine educator, Christine Ansbacher, is known professionally as The Wine Diva because “she’s intent on instructing with a healthy dose of theatrics,” according to the New York Post. As a featured speaker at corporate, convention,...
David Rosengarten

Journalist, television personality, and cookbook author, David Rosengarten has covered great food products, restaurants, wines, gastronomic travel destinations, and related subjects for over 25 years. He has written hundreds of articles and...
Evan Goldstein

Evan Goldstein, MS, is one of the nation’s most prolific food and wine industry veterans. His food and wine career started at age 19 in the kitchens of the Restaurant Le Saintongeais and the Hotel Lancaster in Paris, Auberge du Soleil in Napa...
John Ash

In addition to being a renowned chef, author, and food and wine educator, many refer to Chef John Ash as the “Father of Wine Country Cuisine”. In 1980 he opened his namesake restaurant, John Ash & Company, in Santa Rosa, CA. It was the...
Jolie Mouton and Lisa Traiser

With a witty and unpretentious approach, the Wine Chic Women, Jolie Mouton and Lisa Traiser, bring the three C's to their events: confidence, clarity and camaraderie. This dynamic pair comes to the table with over 23 years of combined wine and...
Ken Chase

His formal education in Canada was at Loyola of Montreal and then the University of Freiburg in Germany. His wine studies focused in France, Germany and Italy where he lived and studied for eight years. These formative years in the vineyard gave...
Les Kincaid

Les Kincaid was originally born in Dayton, Ohio and moved to California at age 12 to spend the summer with his father and stepmother whom he had not yet met. He shortly discovered his passion for food with his step-grandfather (who was an...
Stephen Asprinio

Stephen Asprinio has secured degrees from both the Culinary Institute of America and Cornell University, completed two sommelier certificate level courses from the United States Sommelier Association and the Court of Master Sommeliers, and has 10...
Ted Allen

Emmy Award winner Ted Allen is host of Food Network's primetime hit competition series "Chopped," which challenges four up-and-coming chefs to turn a selection of everyday ingredients into an extraordinary three-course meal. The show was...

CELEBRITY CHEFS BY TYPE OF CUISINE:

Creole & Cajun Cuisine
French Cuisine

Organic Cooking
Italian Cuisine

Latin, Mexican & Spanish Cuisine
Southern Cuisine

Creole & Cajun Cuisine

Chef Emeril Lagasse

Who knew that a kid working in the local Portuguese bakery would burst with a bam(!) into the culinary scene, opening a series of successful restaurants, hosting popular TV shows and becoming one of the most recognizable chefs of all...
John Folse

Chef John Folse learned early that the secrets of Cajun cooking lay in the unique ingredients of Louisiana’s swamp floor pantry. When Folse opened Lafitte’s Landing Restaurant in 1978 in Donaldsonville, he set out to market his...
Kwame Onwuachi

Kwame Onwuachi is the James Beard Award-winning former executive chef at Kith/Kin and owner of the Philly Wing Fry franchise in Washington, D.C. He was a contestant on Top Chef (season 13) in 2015. He has been recognized by Food & Wine...
Susan Spicer

Susan Spicer began her cooking career in New Orleans as an apprentice to Chef Daniel Bonnot at the Louis XVI Restaurant in 1979. After a 4-month “stage” with Chef Roland Durand (Meilleur Oeuvrier de France) at the Hotel Sofitel in Paris in...

French Cuisine

Alain Ducasse

Beginning his career at only 16, Chef Alain Ducasse is now a worldwide culinary phenomenon. He has earned twenty one stars from the Michelin Guide during his 40 year career, making him one of only two chefs to achieve this accomplishment. He has...
Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud is Owner and Chef of several award-winning restaurants as well as the iconic Feast & Fetes catering company. While he hails from Lyon, France, it is in New York that he has truly mastered the culinary scene, so much so that...
Dominique Crenn

Raised in Versailles, France, Executive Chef Dominique Crenn developed a keen interest for cooking as a young girl surrounded by a family that celebrated fine dining. While she credits her mother for her early introduction to the culinary arts,...
Eric Ripert

Eric Ripert is the chef and co-owner of the acclaimed New York restaurant Le Bernardin. Born in Antibes, France, Ripert moved to Andorra, a small country just over the Spanish border as a young child. His family instilled their own passion for...
Gilles Epié

Chef Epié started working at the age of 14 and trained with Roger Jaloux the iconic chef restaurant Paul Bocuse and Alain Senderens. He continued his career alongside Jean-Pierre Coffe at La Ciboulette. After he traveled the world and learned...
Hubert Keller

A Frenchman classically trained by France's top chefs, Keller is now one of America's most widely recognized and acclaimed chefs. His world-renowned restaurants, Fleur de Lys San Francisco and Las Vegas, feature Chef Keller's contemporary French...
Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Though Jean-Georges Vongerichten is one of the world’s most famous chefs, his skills extend far beyond the kitchen. A savvy businessman and restaurateur, Jean-Georges is responsible for the operation and success of a constellation of three and...
Thomas Keller

Chef Thomas Keller is renowned for his culinary skills and high standards. He has established a collection of restaurants that sets a new paradigm within the hospitality profession. Now celebrating its twenty-six year, Keller took ownership of...

Organic Cooking

Alice Waters

Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California, which first opened its doors in 1971. She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In...
Ani Phyo

Ani Phyo is a best-selling author, champion athlete, wellness expert, business consultant, and entrepreneur whose passion lies in designing and creating socially and environmentally aware communities by integrating technology, story telling, and...
Dominique Barnes

Dominique leads the New Wave Foods team through her passion for marine conservation and the mission to change the way we eat seafood. With a Masters in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation from Scripps Institution of Oceanography, she has...
Isa Moskowitz

Isa Moskowitz is the widely popular vegan chef and best-selling author of the hit books "Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook and Vegan With a Vengeance" and host of the hit cable TV show "Post Punk Kitchen." Drawn towards the...
Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver is a phenomenon in the world of food. He is one of the world’s best-loved television personalities and one of Britain’s most famous exports. Oliver has had huge success with television series’ "The Naked Chef,"...
Kevin Gillespie

Chef Kevin Gillespies true passion lies in serving his customers quality food every day. This enthusiasm means incorporating the use of fresh, organic and sustainable ingredients in all of his dishes. His goals as executive chef of Woodfire Grill...
Matthew Kenney

Matthew Kenney is an American celebrity chef, entrepreneur, author, and educator specializing in plant-based cuisine. He is author of 12 cookbooks and is the founder of the companies Matthew Kenney Cuisine and Matthew Kenney Culinary, a...
Tal Ronnen

Tal Ronnen, founder and chef of Crossroads and author of the New York Times Bestseller The Conscious Cook, became known nationwide as the chef who prepared the meals for Oprah Winfrey’s 21-day cleanse. He made his culinary mark at a...
Vivian Howard

Vivian Howard is a chef, author, and PBS personality from Deep Run, NC. She owns two restaurants in Kinston, NC: Chef & the Farmer and Boiler Room Oyster. Born in Deep Run, NC, to tobacco and hog farming parents, Vivian Howard learned...

Italian Cuisine

Fabio Viviani

Chef Fabio Viviani has harbored a passion for food since his childhood growing up in Florence, Italy. Between training in Italian and Mediterranean cuisine at the top hospitality schools and working with culinary luminaries such as Alessandro...
Giada De Laurentiis

Emmy Award-winning personality Giada De Laurentiis has become a household name. With an impressive background of culinary training and a unique personable charm, she is a globally revered celebrity chef. She continues to prove her skill and...
Laura Vitale

Laura Vitale is an Italian-American television host and YouTube personality. She was born and raised in Naples, Italy. At twelve years of age, she moved to the United States. She started her cooking journey working with her father in their...
Lidia Bastianich

Lidia Bastianich is an Italian-American celebrity chef, television host, author, and restaurateur. Specializing in Italian and Italian-American cuisine, Bastianich has been a regular contributor to public television cooking shows since...
Massimo Bottura

Massimo was born and raised in Modena in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy. He developed an interest in cooking from a young age after watching his mother, grandmother and aunt in the kitchen preparing family meals. In 1986 he was...
Michael Chiarello

Michael Chiarello is an award-winning chef and owner of critically acclaimed Bottega restaurant in the Napa Valley and Coqueta in San Francisco. Named Esquire magazine's "Chef of the Year" for 2013, Chiarello made his mark by combining his...
Nick Stellino

Nick Stellino’s path to his successful career as a television chef and cookbook author began in Italy, where he grew up in a family of accomplished cooks who shared with him their knowledge and love of cooking. Nick was born and raised...
Rocco DiSpirito

Rocco DiSpirito is a James Beard award-winning chef, best known for his restaurant, Union Pacific, in NYC and his many cookbooks. He is a healthy lifestyle crusader who is recognized for his inspiring weight loss journey. DiSpirito has...
Sarah Jayne Grueneberg

Since her childhood cooking with her grandparents on their ranch in Victoria, Texas, Sarah Grueneberg knew she was destined to work in the culinary world. Originally from Houston, Grueneberg moved to Chicago in 2005 to join the team at the...

Latin, Mexican & Spanish Cuisine

Abraham Conlon

Abraham Conlon is the head chef and co-owner of Eat Fat Rice a globally- inspired restaurant in Chicago. Beginning a professional cooking career at the age of 15, Conlon gained knowledge of classic sensibilities early on. His...
Daisy Martinez

Daisy Maria Martinez was born in the Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York to mainland Puerto Rican parents, who shortly thereafter moved to her paternal grandmothers house until she was five years old. Between her mother Conchita, and her...
Jose Andres

Named one of Time Magazine's '100 Most Influential People' in both 2012 and 2018, and awarded 'Outstanding Chef' and 'Humanitarian of the Year' by the James Beard Foundation, José Andrés is an internationally-recognized culinary innovator, New...
Katsuji Tanabe

Born and raised in the heart of Mexico, the son of a Japanese father and a Mexican mother, Katsuji has worked inside LA’s most acclaimed kitchens, from the four-star Bastide Restaurant to Beverly Hills’ Mastro’s Steakhouse. Tanabe recently...
Marcela Valladolid

It's easy to lose sight of what traditional Mexican cuisine is when we're surrounded by inauthentic dishes such as overflowing burritos and nachos drowning in liquid cheddar cheese. Chef Marcela Valladolid is here to show us that anyone can...
Michelle Bernstein

Michelle Bernstein is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef from Miami, Florida, known for her Latin-style flavors of cooking. A former ballerina and honors graduate from Johnson & Wales University, she has drawn widespread...
Pati Jinich

Host of the public television series "Pati's Mexican Table," which premiered nationwide in April 2011, cooking teacher, food writer and official Chef of the Mexican Cultural Institute in Washington, DC, Patricia (Pati) Jinich was born and raised...
Rick Bayless

Most people know Rick Bayless from winning the title of Bravo’s Top Chef Masters, beating out the French and Italian with his authentic Mexican cuisine. His highly rated Public Television series, "Mexico–One Plate at a Time," is broadcast...

Southern Cuisine

Art Smith

Chef Art Smith is the executive chef and co-owner of Blue Door Kitchen & Garden in Chicago, Southern Art & Bourbon Bar in Atlanta, Art & Soul in Washington DC, Art Bird & Whiskey Bar at Grand Central Terminal in New York City, and...
Bobby Deen

Bobby Deen has long been an essential ingredient in the recipe that has made his mother, Paula Deen, an American hospitality and cooking icon. The warmth and kindness that are so much a part of his mother’s persona are family traits that were...
Michael W. Twitty

Michael W. Twitty a food writer, independent scholar, culinary historian, and historical interpreter personally charged with preparing, preserving and promoting African American foodways and its parent traditions in Africa and her Diaspora and...
Paula Deen

As a young girl growing up in Albany, Georgia, Paula Deen never dreamed she would become an American icon. As a young mother, Deen was living the American dream, married to her high school sweetheart and raising two adorable boys, when tragedy...
Sean Brock

Many chefs have their first exposure to cooking at a young age. For Sean Brock, who was born and raised in rural Virginia, it was the experience of his family growing their own food that left a deep impression. “This was a coal-field town with...
Tanya Holland

Tanya Holland is Chef Owner of Brown Sugar Kitchen in West Oakland. She is also the author of New Soul Cooking: Updating a Cuisine Rich in Flavor and Tradition. For 4 years, she could be seen on the Food Network’s “Melting Pot”...