Michele Bachmann was born in Waterloo, Iowa and moved from Iowa to Minnesota when she was 13 years old. After graduating high school, she spent time in 1974 working on a kibbutz in Israel. After this experience, she enrolled at Winona State University and graduated in 1978 with a B.A. Next Michele Bachmann moved to…
Celebrity chef speaker Michael Symon is the chef and owner of critically acclaimed Lola and Lolita restaurants in Cleveland, Ohio. He began his career after graduating from The Culinary Institiute of America and quickly began cooking in some of the top up and coming restaurants including, Player’s, Picolo Mondo, Giovanni’s and The Caxton Café. Joining…
Celebrity chef Nate Appleman is a Culinary Institute of America graduate, award-winning cookbook author, and television personality. His first cookbook, A16: Food + Wine, is based on his time as executive chef and co-owner of San Francisco’s acclaimed A16 restaurant. The cookbook earned the esteemed International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Awards for Cookbook of…
Celebrity Chef Speaker Nigella Lawson is the bestselling author of eight books, food fanatic, television personality and journalist. Nigella’s books: Nigella Express: Good Food Fast, Feast: Food to Celebrate Life, Nigella Fresh, Nigella Bites, How to Be a Domestic Goddess, How to Eat, and Nigella Christmas: Food Family Friends Festivities have sold in excess of…
Chef and Celebrity speaker Nobuyuki “Nobu” Matsuhisa is a Japanese celebrity chef, restaurant owner, cookbook author, and television personality. Chef Matsuhisa’s restaurants are prevalent all over the world; he has three Matsuhisa restaurants located in Aspen, Colorado, Beverly Hills, California, and Mykonos, Greece. His Beverly Hills restaurant attracted many A-List celebrities including Robert De Niro…
Celebrity chef speaker Ree Drummond is a blogger, food writer, author and a TV personality who lives on a ranch in Oklahoma. In her blog, Confessions of a Pioneer Woman, Chef Ree writes about being a rural wife and mother, shows her photograph skills and her delicious recipes. In 2009, 2010 and 2011 The Bloggies…
