Art Smith

Art loves the idea of bringing people together through food. It’s partly what made him the success he is today. He is the executive chef and co-owner of Table fifty-two, Art and Soul, Southern Art and Bourbon Bar, Joanne Trattoria, and LYFE Kitchen restaurants. Art Smith has received the culinary profession's highest awards and has cooked for some of the world's most famous celebrities. In...

Bethenny Frankel

To call BETHENNY FRANKEL "busy" would be an understatement. Between her careers as a New York Times best-selling author and natural foods chef, running a successful line of Skinnygirl products, launching her upcoming daily talk show and a jam-packed social calendar, Frankel is always on the go. In the Fall of 2013, “Bethenny,” the show launches on hundreds of cities across America. The...

Carla  Hall

Carla Hall is a co-host of ABC Daytime’s lifestyle series, “The Chew,” seated alongside restaurateurs and “Iron Chef America” stars Mario Batali and Michael Symon, entertaining expert Clinton Kelly, and health and wellness enthusiast Daphne Oz. Carla is best known as a competitor and fan favorite on Bravo’s “Top Chef,” where she won over audiences with her fun catch phrase “Hootie Hoo” and...

Danny Boome

Danny Boome started his culinary training in 1999 as a cook in Switzerland doubling up as an au pair for a local family. He later trained at the acclaimed West Wind Inn in Canada and attended the Grange Cookery School in England. His first post as a young chef was at the fashionable Asia de Cuba restaurant in St. Martins Lane London Hotel, which ignited his passion for fusion cookery...

Duff Goldman

Chef Duff Goldman started working for acclaimed Baltimore Chef Cindy Wolf while attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. After graduating with degrees in History and Philosophy, Duff left Baltimore to study pastries at the Culinary Institute of America in Napa Valley, California. While in Napa, Duff was a stagiere at the French Laundry, working under acclaimed pastry Chef...

Gary Vaynerchuk

Already considered a quintessential maven of modern-day marketing, GARY VAYNERCHUK is a New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-selling author as well as a self-trained wine and social media expert. In high school, while working at his family owned liquor store, Gary started reading The Wine Spectator among other wine books and realized collecting wine offered an allure similar to...

Geof Manthorne

As one of the stars of the Food Network’s hit reality show Ace of Cakes, Geof Manthorne is known for his incredible cake creations and dry, sardonic sense of humor. Viewers of the show have likened Geof's skewed viewpoint and quick wit to watching the show with a close friend. Most recently, he contributed to Ace of Cakes: Inside the World of Charm City Cakes as both an author and a...

Georgetown Cupcake

Sisters Katherine Kallinis Berman and Sophie Kallinis LaMontagne are the co-founders of Georgetown Cupcake, stars of the hit series DC Cupcakes on TLC, and best-selling authors of The Cupcake Diaries: Recipes and Memories from the Sisters of Georgetown Cupcake. Their new book, Sweet Celebrations: Our Favorite Cupcake Recipes, Memories, and Decorating Secrets that Add Sparkle to any Occasion...

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 management...

Graham  Elliot

Chef Graham Elliot is a "Navy brat" who has traveled the world and all fifty states. He's a creative culinary wizard with an innate ability to successfully juxtaposes four-star cuisine with humor, wit and out-of-the-box artistry. At age 27, he became the youngest Four Star Chef to be named in any major U.S. city and was named one of Food & Wine Magazine's "Best New Chef" in 2004. In recent years..

Grant Achatz

Grant Achatz is the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Chef of 2008. His restaurant, Alinea, was named “Best Restaurant in America” by Gourmet Magazine. After opening, Alinea rapidly garnered top ratings from Mobil, AAA, Zagat, the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, Gayot, and was named to the Top 50 Restaurants in the World by Restaurant Magazine, UK.

Ingrid Hoffmann

Ingrid Hoffmann is passionate about food and entertaining and spends each day sharing her enthusiasm and talent with an international audience. Ingrid launched Simply Delicioso (www.simplydelicioso.com) on Food Network in July 2007 and also hosts her own Spanish-language cooking and lifestyle show, Delicioso, since 2004, on Galavision/Univision. Following the success of both TV shows, Ingrid...

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. Jamie has had huge success with television series The Naked Chef (BBC), Jamie's Kitchen, Jamie's School Dinners, Jamie's Great Italian Escape, Return to School Dinners, Jamie's Chef, Jamie at Home, Jamie's Ministry of Food, Jamie Does...

Jason  Roberts

Jason Roberts is an internationally known chef who brings his unique flair and cooking style to ABC's "The Chew." As a correspondent, he travels and shares food-related stories from around the country and appears in-studio. A native of New Zealand, Roberts is best known for his charismatic smile and fun personality. Having grown up in a family of food professionals, Roberts discovered a...

Jeffrey  Saad

Jeffrey Saad is the star of United Tastes of America, which debuted on the Cooking Channel in November 2010. He is the executive chef and partner of The Grove, San Francisco's Living Room; the perfect place for gourmet comfort food, fabulous music and a breathtakingly cool vibe. Enamored with food and formally trained at the Culinary Institute of America and the California Culinary Academy...

Joe Bastianich

Beginning with almost Dickensian roots, working in his parents' Felice and Lidia's Italian restaurant in Queens, washing dishes, cleaning the sidewalk, and touring the jungle-like meat markets of the Bronx, Joe Bastianich's life charts a culinary adventure that ends with this nice Italian boy becoming one of America's premier restaurateurs - as well as a noted winemaker, bon vivant, street...

 Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo

Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo opened Animal restaurant in June 2008 to widespread acclaim. Since opening, the chef duo has been awarded Food & Wine Best New Chefs of 2009, received a James Beard nomination for Best New Restaurant, Rising Star Chefs by Star Chefs and Wine List of the Year by GQ Magazine. The duo still operates a full-service catering company, which opened the door for an appearance...

Kelly Choi

Kelly Choi is a die-hard foodie and former host of Bravo’s hit series, TOP CHEF MASTERS, one of the highest rated programs on the network, and highest rated show for that time slot in Bravo TV history, beating Project Runway and the original Top Chef. As an acclaimed food journalist, producer, creator and host of NYC’s restaurant show EAT OUT NY, Kelly won a New York Emmy from the New York...

Ludo Lefebvre

Long before introducing his wildly popular Ludo Bites to Los Angeles, the French-born Chef Ludovic Lefebvre made a name for himself as the executive chef at L’Orangerie and Bastide, for which he received the prestigious Mobil Travel Guide Five Star Award. Although only in his mid-30’s, Ludo has been named one of the world’s “50 Greatest Chefs” by Relais & Chateaux, was nominated by the James...

Mary Alice Yeskey

Mary Alice Fallon Yeskey is the Manager of Baltimore's Charm City Cakes - the wild, off the wall bakery featured on Food Network's hit series "Ace of Cakes"...

Nadia  G.

Nadia G. (Giosia) is young, funny, and can cook up a storm in 3-inch cherry stilettos. Hailed as the "Julia Child of the Net generation," she is the creator and host of the hit Cooking Channel series Bitchin' Kitchen (www.bitchinkitchen.tv). Set in a candy-colored kitchen decked in animal print and leather, Bitchin' Kitchen looks at the funny side of everyday life situations and turns them into...

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 McDonald's. It was here where he first dabbled in deconstruction in cuisine, serving "filet-o-fish" sandwiches sans top bun. His developing passion for food...

Rocco DiSpirito

Celebrated Chef Rocco DiSpirito's passion for cooking began at the very young age of 11 and he has never looked back. At 16 he entered the Culinary Institute of America, and at 18 began working for legendary chefs worldwide. After graduating from Boston University with a degree in business, Rocco immediately jumped into the New York restaurant scene working for such renowned chefs as Gray Kunz...

Ron Ben-Israel

Known as the Food Networks' "Sweet Genius," Ron Ben Israel creates chic and elaborate cakes referred to as "the Manolo Blahnik of wedding cakes" by The New York Times, all from his Soho studio in New York City. As a young boy, Ron grew up enamored by the art of cake-making utterly captivated by his mother's culinary skills. As a former dancer, Ron integrates the discipline and meticulous...

Thomas Keller

Thomas Keller is internationally renowned for his innovation and dedication in his culinary pursuits. After apprenticing in France, he returned to New York and opened his first restaurant, Rakel. He then returned to California and eventually purchased The French Laundry, creating a three-star country French restaurant in the heart of the Napa Valley that has been showered with accolades and...

Todd English

One of the most decorated, respected, and charismatic chefs in the world, Todd English has enjoyed a staggering number of accolades during his remarkable career. He has been recognized by several of the food industry’s most prestigious publications, established one of the best-known restaurant brands in the nation, published three critically-acclaimed cookbooks, and was named...

Tyler Florence

Chef Tyler Florence graduated from the prestigious culinary program at Johnson and Wales University, and immediately moved to New York where he honed his skills under the tutelage of premier chefs like Charlie Palmer at Aureole, Marta Pulini at Mad 61 and Rick Laakonen, ultimately moving on to become executive chef at Cafeteria...

Willie Degel

Willie Degel is a restaurateur, TV personality, author and perennial entrepreneur. Degel opened his first restaurant, Hollywood and Main at Flushing, Queens in the summer of 1990 and hasn't looked back since. Six years later he opened the first (of three) famed Uncle Jack's Steakhouses in New York City where he refined his unique method of growing a business. Based on his signature direct...

Judy Joo

Judy Joo is one of the four Iron Chefs for the UK and the Executive Chef for The Playboy Club London, which recently launched in all of its 1960’s glamour. Judy has always loved food and cooking. Her love began at home, where she often watched her mother cook authentic dishes from her native Korea. Judy went to Columbia University where in addition to earning a Bachelor’s of Science degree...

Sandra Lee

Sandra Lee, a multi-Emmy® and Gracie award-winner, is an internationally-acclaimed expert in all things kitchen and home. Sandra Lee has predicted and changed the trajectory of American lifestyle with her signature "smart and simple" philosophy. She empowers people of all walks of life to create memorable meals, hospitable homes, and creative crafts and shows them how to entertain...

Rory Freedman

For five years, Rory was an agent at Ford Models in New York—the most prestigious modeling agency in the world. Deciding to abandon her lucrative career and six-figure income to become an animal rights activist, Rory soon became a #1 New York Times best selling author. With her friend Kim Barnouin doing the research, Rory wrote and provided the “voice” for Skinny Bitch.