Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson is a former NFL football player turned Celebrity Chef who was the winner of season 11 of the Food Network cooking competition series Food Network Star in 2015. Eddie beat out 12 other celebrity chef hopefuls and will now have his own cooking series on the Food Network. His pilot BBQ Blitz, aired during the finale of Food Network Star will serve as the basis for his new show centered around barbeque. Also a personal trainer and bodybuilder, Eddie prides himself on creating healthy, nutritious dishes that can help others life a healthier lifestyle without sacrificing the flavors they love.
Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson was a standout defensive back for the University of Arkansas. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers in 2004. He spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons with the Miami Dolphins before suffering a torn ACL. The New England Patriots scooped him up out of free agency before the 2007 season. Again injuries would keep him from the field and he ended his professional football career with the Washington Redskins in 2008.
As a pro athlete, Eddie had always been big into fitness and eating healthy so he saw an opportunity to start a new career helping others live a healthier lifestyle. His appearance on Food Network Star was not his first crack at TV cooking competition series. Eddie came in 8th place out of 19 talented contestants in season 4 of Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef on Fox. In addition to his new gig with Food Network, Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson currently owns and operates his own popular food truck in Houston called the Caribbean Grill.
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Critically acclaimed restaurateur and Celebrity Chef Kerry Heffernan is a down-to-earth American food connoisseur with a love for the outdoors. His love for the outdoors has helped him to become a top seafood expert in today’s culinary landscape. In 2015, Kerry started a campaign called #SaveOurStripers that encouraged chefs in the NYC area to take striped bass off their menu to help resurrect the diminishing population.
Celebrity Chef Kerry Heffernan has an interesting story regarding how he actually got into the business. After high school, Kerry went on a biking trip through Europe and found a home in the South of France. Kerry was exposed to classical European cooking methods and began baking his own croissants. Kerry traveled back to the States and graduated second in his class at the Culinary Institute of America. After another trip to Europe, Kerry worked at renowned restaurants around NYC including Le Regence, Montrachet, and Mondrian. His first head position came as Chef de Cuisine at One Fifth Avenue. In 1982, he landed his first executive chef position at the Westbury Hotel’s famed Polo Restaurant. Later he helped open the award-winning restaurant Eleven Madison Park with Union Square Hospitality.
The humble Celebrity Chef Kenny Heffernan participates heavily in philanthropy projects when he is not busy in the kitchen. He serves on the City Harvest Food Council and works with Project by Project, Share Our Strength. He also acts as an advisor to several other non-profits in charge of seafood sustainability and conservation. In 2012, Kerry returned to the Culinary Institute of America to deliver the commencement speech.
Kerry has made quite a splash on TV during his time working in NYC. He has appeared as a guest judge on Bravo’s popular cooking series Top Chef All-Stars. He also makes regular appearances on morning and daytime talk shows including Good Morning America, The Today Show, and Martha Stewart.
Celebrity Chef Kerry Heffernan has become a leading voice for seafood sustainability and the conservation of resources.
Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry is no stranger to success as an actress and TV star, but she is a newcomer in the culinary world. Tia rose to fame as a teenager staring in the hit show Sister, Sister on ABC/WB with her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry. Following the show’s overwhelming success, Tia went on to star as medical student Melanie Barnett Davis on the popular BET series, The Game. Since 2013, Tia has starred as food blogger and full-time stepmom Stephanie Phillips in the Nickelodeon series Instant Mom. In 2015, Tia announced her own cooking show titled Tia Mowry at Home that airs on The Cooking Channel.
Her cooking show gives viewers a more personal look into the life of a full-time mom, actress and wife. Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry grew up in a military family that was constantly on the move, which allowed her to taste a variety of foods in different cities. She credits those influences for sparking her interest in cooking homemade meals for her family. She hopes to showcase meals that are healthy, delicious and easy for moms on-the-go because she knows first-hand how hard juggling a career and family can be.
In addition to her celebrated TV shows, Tia and sister Tamara starred in the Disney Channel original movie Twitches and the sequel Twitches Too. In 2011, Tia and Tamara began filming their new reality TV series Tia & Tamara which aired on the Style Network. The show followed the lives of the twins including Tia’s pregnancy and Tamara’s upcoming wedding to Fox News Correspondent Adam Housley.
Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry has also become one of our favorite celebrity moms in Hollywood. She wrote an exciting book about her first pregnancy titled Oh Baby!: Pregnancy tales and Advice from One Hot Mama to Another. The book detailed the trials, tribulations and triumphs of pregnancy for working mothers.
Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry is one of several well-known celebrity personalities including Haylie Duff and Tiffani Thiessen who have found a new TV home on the Cooking Channel.
According to Nutrition Speaker Keri Glassman, managing your health involves improving and making better choices in every aspect of your life. Celebrity Nutritionist Keri has set her sights on helping America take control of their diets and live a healthier lifestyle. In addition to her own private practice, Keri’s online health platform, Nutritious Life, encompasses all areas of one’s daily life. From food to exercise to sleep, Keri takes pride in coaching others to better health using the whole person approach. Her writing talent has also given her another platform to share her tips and tricks on nutrition. She is a contributor to Food Network’s Healthy Eats blog and has authored 4 published books and 2 ebooks on health and nutrition.
Keri discovered an interest in nutrition at an early age but it wasn’t until she got to college that she began to follow her own nutritious game plan. She was an all-American lacrosse player at Tufts University and wanted to find the balance between building strength for lacrosse and still fitting into a pair of skinny jeans. Keri got her masters in nutrition from NYU and became a registered dietitian. Soon after A Nutritious Life was born. She has now developed her own line of food-based skin care products called Skin Appetit. She has also worked as a Health and Wellness partner for JW Marriott hotels and sits on the advisory board of Women’s Health Magazine. Recently she partnered with Livestrong.com and was in charge of her own original YouTube video series featured on the Livestrong Women channel.
Keri embodies an entrepreneurial spirit that drives her not only to improve her own life but the lives of those around her.
She is a regular as a nutrition speaker on TV and talk shows including The Today Show, The Chew, The Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America and countless others.
Keri is the perfect Health & Wellness Speaker to teach your audience about changes they can make to better every aspect of their lives.
His Irish roots have helped this Celebrity Chef Speaker find his calling in creating some of the world’s most delicious pub fare! Celebrity Chef Brian Duffy has revamped the gastropub scene with his tasty “New Celtic” cuisine. He has served as the executive chef in several establishments across the U.S. most notably at Kildare’s Irish Pub in his hometown of Philadelphia. His hands-on experience in the restaurant business has allowed him to become a top food consultant for bars, restaurants, pubs and nightclubs. He gives advice on menu revamps as well as style and restaurant décor. Celebrity Chef Brian makes regular celebrity chef appearances on Spike TV’s Bar Rescue also starring Jon Taffer and fellow celebrity chefs Tiffany Derry, Aaron McCargo, Jr. and Josh Capon.
Coming from a huge Irish-Italian family, food was very important to Brian from an early age. After refining his skills in culinary school, Brian went to work under Chef Jean Marie LaCroix at the famous Four Seasons Hotel in Philly. His entrepreneurial spirit was running wild as he began to build his own culinary creations. He partnered with a friend to open Kristopher’s and soon was hired by the Dave Magrogan Group to be their corporate executive chef for Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House, Harvest Season Grill and Kildare’s Irish Pubs. Later, Chef Brian got the change to partner with Seafood American where he developed his own line of frozen meals.
One of Brian’s first Celebrity Chef Appearances was on the Food Network’s Date Plate, where everyone enjoyed his sense of humor along with his wonderfully prepared food.
Brian has also made a celebrity chef appearance on many shows featured on networks such as the DIY Network, Food Network, HGTV, and Fine Living Network. Chef Brian has been called on as a celebrity guest judge on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay. Given his Irish roots, Brian is also an annual guest on The Today Show’s St. Patrick’s Day Irish cook-off.
