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…
Graham Elliot is an award winning chef, television personality and cookbook author. Elliot, a self-proclaimed “Navy brat” who has traveled the world and all fifty US states, has accrued many prestigious ac-colades including multiple James Beard Foundation Nomina-tions. At age 27, Elliot became the youngest four-star chef to be named in any major U.S. city…
Growing up in a Greek family comprised of restaurant owners, Iron Chef Cat Cora was born to be a celebrity chef. While she majored in Exercise Physiology and Biology, her true passion was cooking, and she didn’t find a job with her degree before she decided to attend the Culinary Institute of America in New…