The list of awards that Celebrity Chef Speaker Grant Achatz has received during his tenure in the culinary industry is a mile long. Chef Achatz is known as one of the leaders in molecular gastronomy and progressive cuisine. In 2003 he was named “Rising Star Chef of the Year”, “Best Chef in the United States”…
Celebrity Chef Ed Cotton comes from a history of culinary artistry in his family. Following in his father’s culinary footsteps, Chef Cotton landed a job apprenticing under acclaimed Chef Todd English during his high school years at English’s restaurant Olives in Boston. Cotton took full advantage of his time with Chef Todd and was able…
Celebrity chef and restaurant owner, Gary Danko, is widely recognized as one of America’s most respected and talented celebrity chefs. During his time at the Culinary Institute of American in Hyde Park, he worked alongside fellow celebrity chefs, Bradley Ogden and Susan Feniger. Throughout his thirty plus year career, award winning Chef Danko has refined…
Chef Deborah Scott is known for her ability to pair eclectic flavors into magnificent, innovative, and scrumptious dishes. Chef Scott’s unparalleled success as a restaurateur comes from her inherent talent, culinary education and apprenticeships at award winning restaurants in Newport, Rhode Island, Whitehouse Tavern and Clark Cookhouse, as well as her role as Executive Sous…
Chef Debbie Gold was named “Chef to Watch” by Esquire magazine and has lived up to the title ever since. Gold identifies her studies at the University of Illinois for restaurant management and the passion for food she was born with as two of the main reasons for her success in the culinary industry. Celebrity…
Celebrity Chef Speaker Art Smith knows about the trials and tribulations that often come in everyone’s lives, and he has used healthy cooking with a Southern cuisine style to change his life, and others, for the better. Smith is a restaurateur, cookbook author, and television personality who has made and continues to make a huge…