KERRY VINCENT BIOGRAPHY

10530 South Urbana Ave Tulsa, Oklahoma 74137-6247 TEL: 918 299 7125 [email protected]

Master sugar artist Kerry Vincent was inducted into the International Cake Exploration Société Hall of Fame in 2004 and then was named the inaugural Dessert Professional Hall of Fame inductee in 2010. Vincent is the cofounder of the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show, and founder of the Grand National Wedding Cake Competition. A skilled designer, Kerry has invented unique techniques in sugar craft, which includes the Vincent Marquetry, and movement in stenciled or painted sugar flounces and skirting. Vincent is a successful national television personality, author, freelance writer, international presenter, radio commentator, wedding cake style advisor and designer. Her best selling book Romantic Wedding Cakes is in its fourth reprint and is beloved by followers worldwide. Recognizing that a well-crafted flavorful cake is important under all of that sugar, Kerry developed her own signature cake recipes, which were long standing favorites of her former clients. Closing the door on her competitive career in 2001 with more than a hundred blue ribbons, along with Best of Division, Best of Show and Gold medal awards under her belt, she was in the right place at the right time when another door opened in 2002 with an option to judge Food Network Challenge, where she has adjudicated more than 120 competition episodes over the past nine years. Vincent is a continuing cast member for Last Cake Standing Season 1 & 2 and has recently joined another Food Network show The Best Thing I Ever Ate. Vincent was named a Tulsa Oklahoma Hero for her service to the city and October 6 is Kerry Vincent day in Tulsa. The Grand National Wedding Cake Competition, the event that she founded, has become the toast of the nation and has been taped and broadcast by Food Network multiple times. The event has also been named a centennial icon by the City of Tulsa in the state of Oklahoma, and the Tulsa World. An Australian born citizen, Kerry originally hails from Wyalkatchem in Western Australia, with widespread roots in the Murchison, Mt. Many Peaks and Perth before she left to travel abroad 40 years ago. Australians are known for a ‘no nonsense’ approach in speaking their minds and Kerry is no exception, she is the judge with the tough love message on Challenge. Kerry has lived in the United Kingdom, Mexico, Switzerland, Singapore and Holland and visited scores of other countries. Always focused on food, she was ready to challenge her palate no matter where she went. Vincent has demonstrated sugar-craft at a variety of international venues and celebrity occasions, and those locations include, United Kingdom, Brazil, Australia, Mexico, Peru and Belgium, as well as making hundreds of television appearances to promote, educate or judge the art. Her background in communications and modeling was a great launching pad into the public life she now leads; not to forget that in 1964 Vincent was a Western Australian state finalist in the Miss Australia Quest a prestigious pageant that is now recognized with a special exhibition in the National Museum of Australia in Melbourne. Her special features and editorial included in magazines at home and abroad has also been translated into Spanish and Italian: Vincent’s artistry has appeared on many magazine covers principally in the United States, United Kingdom & Peru additionally, opinion, cake images and editorial have appeared in Italy, Australia, South Africa and Holland. Brides magazine wedding style editor Maria McBride has also chosen Kerry’s designer cakes as exceptional for wedding cake spectacular editorial: In the first instance in the top fifty Most Beautiful Cakes in America collection 2007, and then the top twenty Most Beautiful Cakes in America 2010. In 2011, Kerry’s wedding cake design will once again appear in Brides magazine fall lineup for the Most Beautiful Cakes in America. Her cake designs were also included in Brides invitational lineup for Cakewalk 2005 at Grand Central Station in New York. She also exhibited by invitation on the Table D'Honneur at The International Sugar & Cake Show at the NEC in Birmingham, UK; the British Sugarcraft Guild exhibition Table D'Honneur at Telford, UK 2001; the Table of Honour at the Australian Association of Cake Decorator’s National Seminar 2003: Vincent presented at all events. One of the very first to promote cake as a true art form, in 1985 Vincent spearheaded an exhibition of winter season wedding cakes in the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma. One of Kerry’s favorite newspaper quotes came from writer Barbara Durbin The Portland Oregonian “Kerry Vincent’s not a cake decorator—unless you call Michelangelo a church painter!” Her work has inspired complimentary mail from a variety of interesting personalities. They include; The Honorable, The Lord Wedgwood; Lady-in-Waiting Phillippa de Pass on behalf of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II; Parisian fashion designer Christian Lacroix; Sheila Lampkin, Publishing Editor (ret.) from Cake Craft and Decoration -- (UK) and Gilles Renusson Chairman Emeritus U.S. Pastry Alliance. Recently Vincent was chosen as one of eight judges nationwide to determine the outcome of the USA pastry trials that chose the representative team members for the Coupe Du Monde de la Patisserie (World Cup of Pastry) competition to be in Lyon, France, January 2011. This is the first time a sugar artist has been included in this line-up. Vincent has traveled from a station (ranch) in Australia's outback to become the Queen of Cake in the USA, her chat can include stories from abroad mixed with experiences on television over 9 years or more focused or food whatever is required. Kerry Vincent is married to Doug Vincent founder of Angel Flight in Oklahoma, petroleum engineer and landowner.

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