Posts classified under: Classical French

hire-bradford-thompson

Bradford Thompson

Hire Bradford Thompson through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: Food Network, NBC, CBS

CHARITIES: Share our Strength, TJ Martell, MLBPA Charities, Autism Speaks, Chefs for Humanity

BIO: Bradford Thompson spent many summers while growing up on the coast of Maine lobster trapping and picking fresh blueberries with his grandmother. After graduating from University of Rochester, he realized his passion for food was much greater than originally thought, so he began training under Chef Vincent Guerithault, Alessandro Strata and Daniel Boulud throughout the Michelin Starred kitchens of France. These experiences led to Bradford cooking for one of the finest restaurants in the country, Mary Elaine’s at the Phoenician in Scottsdale, Arizona and while here, he used his strong American culinary skills with his class French training.

Mary Elaine’s won some of the most coveted awards during Bradford Thompson’s time, such as the prestigious Five-Diamond by the American Automobile Association, The Mobile 5 star award, and the esteemed Grand Award from Wine Spectator magazine. Bradford has been named one of Food and Wine Magazine’s Best New Chefs of 2004 and is the winner of the James Beard Award: Best Chef Southwest in 2006. This same year, he was inducted into the Scottsdale Culinary Hall of Fame for his giving to the community and culinary world.

In 2007, Bradford Thompson left Mary Elaine’s and came out with a line of bottled Jamaican jerk sauces. He has been a consultatnt for restaurateurs in New York and Bradford and his cuisine have been featured on the Food Network, NBC, Today Show, CBS Early Show, Wine Spectator, Food Arts, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, and Food and Wine. He is available for speaking engagements, personal appearances and hosting.

APPEARANCES: Food Network, NBC, Today Show, CBS Early Show

WHO REPRESENTS BRADFORD THOMPSON: Celebrity Chef Bradford Thompson can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Bradford Thompson for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

hire-bernard-guillas

Bernard Guillas

Hire Bernard Guillas through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: PBS

CHARITIES: Mama’s Kitchen, Share Our Strength Taste of the Nation fund-raiser for hunger relief, the San Diego Bay Wine and Food Festival, annual guest chef for Celebrities Cook for Cancer, a fund-raiser that benefits the University of California San Diego Cancer Center

BIO: Chef Bernard Guillas joined the La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club as executive chef in 1994 and knew it was the place or him; coastal lifestyle was right up his alley coming from Brittany, France. Using the local flavors and his classical training, Bernard is responsible for operations at La Jolla Beach & Tennis Club, the Shores Restaurants at the La Jolla Shores Hotel, and the Marine Room restaurant. His position entails Bernard to oversee all menus, wine selections and special events.

Rewinding back to his formal training, he began at le Bretagne Restaurant in Questembert, France where he worked alongside Georges Paineau. Expanding his training with several Maitres Cuisinier de France fine dining restaurants, he moved on to become chef de cuisine at Le Dolmen in French Guyana. He attributes this move with influencing him with the rich diverse South American flavors that he incorporates into his food today.

Under Pierre Chambrin, the former White House executive chef, Bernard Guillas moved to Washington DC to work as chef tournant, chef chef saucier, and sous chef at Maison Blanche. In 1989, he relocated to San Diego and spent five years as chef de cuisine at the Grant Grill, in the US Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. Bernard was inducted into the International Restaurant & Hospitality Rating Bureau’s American Chefs’ Hall of Fame in 2001 and is one of only fourteen chefs to receive this honor. He has appeared on Food Arts Magazine, the Rising Star Chef cookbook and PBS’ Rising Chef television series and has been a guest on Martha Stewart Living Radio show and KPBS.

He has been guest chef at the prominent James Beard House in New York, was selected as San Diego’s Best Chef numerous times, named the Gold Medallion Awards recipient, Chef Magazine, San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles Magazine Readers Poll and San Diego Magazine People’s and Critic’s Choice. Bernard Guillas is available for cooking demonstrations, hosting and speaking engagements.

APPEARANCES: KPBS, StarChefs.com, plate, the Food Channel, behind the burner, San Diego Reader, Washington Times, Comfort Food Magazine, and many more

BOOKS: Flying Pans, Two Chefs Cookbook

WHO REPRESENTS BERNARD GUILLIAS: Celebrity Chef Bernard Guillas can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Bernard Guillas for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

hire-ariane-duarte

Ariane Duarte

Hire Ariane Duarte through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: Bravo

SHOWS: Top Chef

BIO: Chef and owner of CulinAriane in Montclair, NJ, Ariane Duarte was first inspired to cook as a young child after cooking with her grandmothers. Ariane Duarte graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and began working at many of the best restaurants in the country before her and her husband, Michael, decided to open CulinAriane. Ariane’s husband is also the pastry chef and 18 years ago the two opened the restaurant.

Ariane and fellow Top Chef contestant Carla Hall and CHOPPED contestant Amanda Freitag will be featured in a dinner to benefit Big Louises Kids to help combat childhood obesity. Ariane Duarte was a contestant on Bravo’s Top Chef season 5 and is available for speaking engagements, cooking demonstrations and corporate hospitality.

APPEARANCES: Bravo, Top Chef

WHO REPRESENTS ARIANE DUARTE: Celebrity Chef Ariane Duarte can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Ariane Duarte for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

hire-alain-roby

Alain Roby

Hire Alain Roby through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

BIO: Alain Roby’s cooking skills have been seen all over the world, as The Guinness Book of World Records has awarded Chef Roby the World’s Tallest Cooked Sugar Building and World’s Tallest Chocolate Sculpture. His winning cooked sugar building stood at 12 feet 10 inches and the chocolate sculpture was 20 feet 8 inches tall. Alain Roby is the only chef in the world to hold two Guinness World Records. Alain studied in Paris from the world famous pastry chef Lenotre and is a certified Master Chef of Pastry & Sugar Artistry. He has been named as a permanent committee member of the exclusive Societe D’Escofier Chicago.

Through his many travels around the world, he has served as private pastry chef for the Shah of Iran, and the Admiral of the Joan of Arc—the flagship of the French Navy. On the Queen Elizabeth II, Alain Roby was featured promoting All-American desserts on the culinary crossing of the ship from South Hampton, England to New York. Alain Roby is available for speaking engagements, cooking demonstrations and hosting.

WHO REPRESENTS ALAIN ROBY: Celebrity Chef Alain Roby can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Alain Roby for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

hire-alain-ducasse

Alain Ducasse

Hire Alain Ducasse through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

BIO: Alain Ducasse’s first apprenticeship began at the Pavillon Landais restaurant in Soustons and at the Bordeaux hotel school. Soon after, he began work at Michel Guerard’s, Eugenie-les-Bains while also working at Gaston Lenotre. While at Moulin de Mougins, Alain learned the Provencal cooking methods which he is now known for.

His first chef position was in 1980 when he took over the kitchens at L’Amandier in Eugene Mougin. In 1981, Alain Ducasse became head chef at La Terrasse in the Hotel Juana in Juan-les-Pins and was later awarded two stars in the Red Guide.

As the Chef des Cuisines at the Hotel de Paris in Monte Carlo, he managed the hotel’s high end Le Louis XV restaurant and after three years, Louis XV became the first hotel restaurant to be awarded three stars in the Red Guide. In 1995, Alain Ducasse went beyond the restaurant business and opened La Bastide de Moustiers. In 1996, he opened the Alain Ducasse restaurant in Le Parc—Sofitel Demeure Hotels in the 16th district of Paris, France.

Alain Ducasse made his way to the States and opened the Alain Ducasse restaurant in the New York City Essex house and here was also a recipient of the Red Guide’s three stars, and three of Alain’s restaurants are Michelin star winners. Among his accomplishments outside of the kitchen, he has opened a cooking school for the general public in Paris and another for chefs (ADF), and worked for the European Space Agency to develop better astronaut meals for space. Alain is available for cooking demonstrations, corporate appearances and endorsements.

BOOKS: Alain Ducasse Nature: Simple, Healthy, and Good, Asian Tapas: Small Bites, Big Flavors, At the Crillon and at Home Receipes by Jean-Francois Piege, Ducasse Made Simple: 100 Recipes from the Master Chef, Simplified for the Home Cook, Grand Livre De Cuisine: Alain Ducasse’s Desserts and Pastries, Ducasse Flavors of France, Grand Livre De Cuisine: Alain Ducasse’s Culinary Encyclopedia, Asian Tapas: Small Bites, Big Flavors, Diccionario del amante de la cocina / Cuisine Lover Dictionary, Spoon: Food & Wine, The Good Cuisine: 208 Recipes Easy and Inspired, Encuentros Con Sabor, Provence of Alain Ducasse, Harvesting Excellence, L’ Atelier of Alain Ducasse: The Artistry of a Master Chef and His Proteges, Rencontres Savoureuses: Petit Traite De L’excellence Francaise, Ducasse Flavors of France

WHO REPRESENTS ALAIN DUCASSE: Celebrity Chef Alain Ducasse can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

To hire Alain Ducasse for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

1 … 9 10 11 12
Tap to Call Now