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Dominique Crenn

Celebrity Chef Dominique Crenn is known as a trailblazer for female culinary artists all over the world. Dominique was the first female chef in North America to earn 2 Michelin stars. She is also an advocate of the use of organic and sustainable local produce/ingredients in her dishes.

Dominique was born in Versailles, France and her cultured upbringing centered around fine-dining played a huge role in her unique culinary style that has since made her one of the top celebrity chef personalities on the west coast. During her many travels throughout Europe as a teenager, Dominique began to pick-up on the cooking styles and flavors of each region and how she could fuse the different ingredients and tastes.

In 1988, Dominique moved to San Francisco where she would work in some of the top eateries in the area including Park Hyatt Grill, 2223 Market and the Yoyo Bistro at the Miyako Hotel. She honed her skills in San Francisco for 9 years before moving to Indonesia to take a job as the executive chef of the International Hotel in Jakarta. Dominique was the first female executive chef in the entire history of Indonesia. That’s no small feat! Yet she moved back to San Francisco in 1998 after political turmoil broke out in the region.

Celebrity Chef Dominique Crenn has now settled into life on the west coast as the executive chef and owner of Atelier Crenn. In 2008, she was named Esquire Magazine’s Chef of the Year. And the accolades just keep on piling up. She is regularly nominated as one of the top chefs each year by the James Beard Foundation including her latest nomination in 2016 as Best Chef: West. Many may recognize her as a contestant on season 2 of Food Network’s The Next Iron Chef cooking competition series.

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Patricia Heaton

Award-winning actress, producer and Celebrity Chef Patricia Heaton is most famous for her role as Debra Barone on the CBS sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. After enjoying a lengthy career in major TV and film roles, Patricia charted a new course as a featured celebrity chef on the Food Network. Patricia now hosts her own network cooking series called Patricia Heaton Parties. The show takes audiences inside her own kitchen as she prepares her favorite party recipes with former co-stars, friends and family! Her recipe repertoire includes items such as Cleveland stuffed potatoes and hot leek dip to hearty dishes like her classic Shepherd’s Pie.

A mother of 4, family has always been a driving factor for Patricia throughout her career as an actress and TV personality. Everybody Loves Raymond spanned at total of 8 seasons from 1996-2005, garnering 15 total Primetime Emmy Awards over the years. Patricia won 2 individual Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series in 2000 and 2001. She currently stars as Frankie Heck in ABC’s The Middle in addition to filming new episodes of her cooking series. Patricia Heaton Parties season 2 is set to premiere in the spring of 2016.

Before joining the culinary industry, Celebrity Chef Patricia Heaton published a book titled Motherhood & Hollywood: How To Get A Job Like Mine. This witty collections of essays covered topics such as being a parent, juggling work and home life, success and fame. She may be one of the biggest names in show biz, but she can relate to mothers all over the world! She is an active advocate supporting pro-life groups and has served as honorary chair of the Feminists for Life organization.

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Adam Perry Lang

Celebrity Chef Adam Perry Lang is a New York City-based chef specializing in mouthwatering barbecue cuisine. After an early career spent learning classical French techniques, Adam followed his heart to become one of the most respected BBQ chefs in the United States. He has made Celebrity Chef appearances on a variety of news programs and talk shows including Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show and Fox & Friends.

Adam graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked at several notable establishments in his early career including revered Celebrity Chef Daniel Boulud’s Le Cirque and Daniel located in NYC. He also spent some time in France working at Restaurant Guy Savoy. By this time Adam had mastered the art of classic French techniques, but his heart was full of smoke. Barbeque smoke that is.

The food scene in New York City lacked a really great rib shack and Celebrity Chef Adam Perry Lang decided to fill the void with his own BBQ hotspot. Daisy May’s BBQ started with a few food carts strategically placed around the city and has grown into a flagship location in Midtown Manhattan. But in the barbecue world, you earn your stripes at annual competitions. In his first year on the competition circuit, Adam cooked his way to Grand Champion honors at the World Pork Expo and won 1^st place for his delectable pork shoulder at The World Series of BBQ in Kansas City. Adam has also taken his barbecue methods global, opening up Barbecoa with fellow celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in London.

In 2009, Celebrity Chef Adam Perry Lang released his first cookbook titled Serious Barbecue: Smoke, Char, Baste and Brush Your Way to Great Outdoor Cooking. The book provided backyard chefs with his secrets to spicing up any backyard BBQ. He has since published 2 more books titled Charred and Scruffed: Bold New Techniques for Explosive Flavor On and Off the Grill and BBQ 25: The World’s Most Flavorful Recipes-Now Made Fool-Proof.

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Jonathon Sawyer

Celebrity Chef Jonathon Sawyer is a crafty culinary personality based in Cleveland, Ohio. Jonathon owns and operates 4 foodie hotspots in the city and is also credited with opening the first pop-up restaurant group in Cleveland called Brick & Mortar Pop-Ups. In January of 2015, Jonathon released his first cookbook titled Noodle Kids: Around the World in 50 Fun, Healthy, Creative Recipes the Whole Family Can Cook Together. Just a few months later, he earned the title of 2015 Best Chef Great Lakes from the James Beard Foundation after being nominated for the award every year since 2012.

Jonathon attended the Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts. Upon graduation, he worked at The Biltmore Hotel in Miami before earning a position at Charlie Palmer’s Kitchen 22 in NYC. He would later link up with his friend and mentor Michael Symon to work as the executive chef at Symon’s restaurant Parea. But Jonathon had dreams of opening his own restaurant and moved back to his hometown of Cleveland to bring his vision to life.

Since then, Celebrity Chef Jonathon Sawyer has helped revive the culinary scene in Cleveland with 4 highly-touted eateries including popular gastropub The Greenhouse Tavern, Noodlecat, Bar Cento and Trentina. Perhaps his most exciting ventures have been Sawyer’s Street Frites at the Cleveland Brown’s First Energy Stadium and SeeSaw Pretzel Shoppe at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Quicken Loans Arena.

Jonathon has since become a national culinary star and has appeared on several cooking competition series including Iron Chef America, Unique Eats and Dinner Impossible. In 2010, he received Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chef Award.

Celebrity Chef Jonathon Sawyer is a big supporter of local ingredients and sustainable businesses. In 2011, Jonathon created the Tavern Vinegar Company. He ferments over 300 gallons of his own barrel-aged wine, beer and vinegars for his restaurants and individual sale.

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Justin Warner

Celebrity Chef Justin Warner knows no boundaries in the kitchen. In his world, the laws of cooking were meant to be broken! He is best recognized as the season 8 winner of Food Network Star. Since his big win, Chef Justin has carved his own lane in the culinary industry with his exciting, unconventional cooking style. In October of 2015, Chef Justin released his first cookbook titled The Laws of Cooking: And How to Break Them. The book introduces readers to a new way of thinking in the kitchen to create inventive and exciting recipes using familiar flavor combinations.

Celebrity Chef Justin Warner got his first taste of TV cooking competitions as a contestant on Food Network’s 24 Hour Restaurant Battle in 2010. 2 years later he won the right to his own Food Network series on Food Network Star under the tutelage of Celebrity Chef Alton Brown. Chef Justin’s Food Network show Rebel Eats debuted in 2013. In the fall of 2014, Celebrity Chef Justin Warner was 1 of 16 Celebrity Chefs chosen to compete on Cutthroat Kitchen Superstar Sabotage.

Chef Justin is completely self-taught, which accounts for his inquisitive nature when it comes to traditional recipes and cooking methods. He first started working in restaurants when he was 15 years old. He learned all he could about food, wine and fine dining and eventually opened his own restaurant called Do or Dine in New York. In May of 2015, he launched his own web series with Food Network called Foodie Call with Justin Warner. The exciting video series follows Chef Justin as he travels across the country to meet famous culinary personalities on the forefront of the latest food trends.

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