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Jacques Torres

Celebrity speaker Jacques Torres, also known as Mr. Chocolate, is a master pastry chef.  Growing up in a young fishing village in the South of France, Torres began his culinary career at the age of 15 with an apprenticeship at a small pastry shop. The young Torres was a natural, completing the apprenticeship in two years and graduating at the top of his class. Following the completion of his apprenticeship, he began working with Michelin Star winning chef Jacques Maximum at the famed Hotel Negresco.  As if working at the prestigious hotel and alongside one of the best chefs in France wasn’t enough, Torres also attended culinary school to earn his Master Pastry Chef degree.  The rising pastry chef then continued his work around France, teaching courses at a culinary school in Cannes, and later becoming the youngest person to ever win the Meilleur Ouvrier Patissier de France competition, before eventually taking his craft across the Atlantic and to the United States.  Upon his arrival in the States, Torres became the Corporate Pastry Chef for the esteemed Ritz Carlton Hotel, and then moved on to work at one of New York’s most upscale French restaurants Le Cirque. He served as the Executive Pastry Chef at Le Cirque for 11 years and during these years, he also returned to his teaching roots and joined the faculty of the International Culinary Center. While on the staff, he designed the program’s Classic Pastry Arts Curriculum, and as a result became the school’s Dean of Pastry Arts. However, 2000 marked the year that Chef Torres officially became known as Mr. Chocolate, as he left Le Cirque in pursuit of bigger and better endeavors.  Feeling he had now garnered the experience, Jacques fulfilled a dream of his, and opened his own chocolate factory and retail shop in Brooklyn. The chocolate shop took off, and the chocolatier then proceeded to open six more Jacques Torres shops, including two more chocolate factories and one ice cream shop.

Celebrity Chef Jacques Torres has been the recipient of numerous accolades. Mr. Chocolate has won the James Beard Foundation Pastry Chef of the Year, the Chefs of America Pastry Chef of the Year and the Chartreuse Pastry Chef of the Year. In addition to his awards, he is the author of two Dessert Circus books and the host of his own Food Network TV show Chocolate with Jacques Torres. He has also participated in charity events. In May 2010, Torres with the help of fellow culinary talents Jacques Pepin, Alain Sailhac, and André Soltner, he prepared a $30,000-per-couple dinner for the U.S. President Barack Obama’s fund-raiser for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. As of 2014, Jacques can also be seen alongside Buddy Valastro as one of the judges of TLC’s the Next Great Baker. Outside of the kitchen, chocolatier Torres, coincidentally, married chocolatier Hasty Khoei, who owns a chocolate shop, called Madame Chocolat, in Beverly Hills.

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Dana Herbert

Known by some as The Sugar Daddy, or the King of Cakes, celebrity chef Dana Herbert is an expert on every sweet and savory treat.  Chef Herbert began his studies at the University of Delaware where he majored in Hotel Restaurant and Institutional Management. Post graduation, he continued his studies at the esteemed Johnson and Wales University where he mastered his culinary skills and became an expert in the art of pastry making.  Chef Herbert then went on to work at the Four Seasons Boston, and as a pastry chef at the Philadelphia Downtown Marriott before opening up his own business in Delaware, Desserts by Dana.  The business became a huge success, featured on WEtv and many news outlets, but what made Chef Dana Herbert a dominating force in the culinary industry was his win on the first season of Cake Boss: Next Great Baker. Since winning the show, Chef Herbert has been invited to work in Hoboken with the renowned Cake Boss Buddy Valastro, and has also graced the cover of Essence, Fitness Magazine, Catering Magazine, the Huffington Post, and Chef Magazine, to name a few.  He has also been featured on popular foodie television programs Wedding Cake Wars and TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off for his baking expertise.

But let’s not forget that there’s more to celebrity chef Dana Herbert than cakes and desserts. Aside from being a pastry chef, Herbert is also an expert in the culinary field. His talents in the kitchen have caught the eyes of James Beard, and he has since been invited to be a part of the James Beard Celebrity Chef tour. Chef Herbert has even authored his own cookbook called the Sweet and Savory Union, a title that epitomizes his cooking style. In addition to the James Beard tour, Dana also tours the country with healthcare company Novo Nordisk, and works to educate people with Diabetes on how they can create culinary masterpieces that are delicious, yet still nutritious, and manageable for a sugar free diet. Chef Dana Herbert has also created the fundraiser Cake for the Cure, which built the world’s largest wedding cake to benefit the Susan G. Komen foundation. Outside of baking and cooking, Dana is married and has two young children.

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Waylynn Lucas

Baking in places such as Costa Rica and Los Angles, chef Waylynn Lucas possesses a wide set of culinary talents. Recently named to be a co-host on the show Restaurant Startup, Lucas has plenty of experience in the industry of restaurant management. After moving from Costa Rica, Lucas secured a job as the Executive Pastry Chef of SLS Hotels Beverly Hills, as well as the Patisserie at the four-star Bazaar by José Andrés. Lucas began cultivating her skill as she worked closely with Andrés to eventually discover her own unique pastry design and craft, working with liquid nitrogen and spherification techniques to cultivate her expertise. She even received her first four-star review while working at Bazaar, with a Los Angeles Times four-star rating following her to Patina shortly after she became the Executive Pastry Chef there. Before working at Patina, Lucas also refurbished the dessert menu at the Penthouse Restaurant at the Huntley Hotel while she worked as its Executive Pastry Chef.

Transitioning from an Executive Chef to also becoming a restaurant owner, Lucas debuted her restaurant Fonuts in 2011. The eatery offers a different spin on a traditional donut shop, where she bakes rather than fries, and offers a wide variety of vegan and gluten-free options. Expanding her realm of expertise even wider, Lucas appeared in the Bravo show Eat, Drink, Love in 2013, which followed the lives of Lucas and four other women in the largely male dominated culinary industry. Moving forward in the television sphere, Lucas is also now a co-host on the show Restaurant Startup, which follows contestants as the hosts help them to temporarily launch their dream restaurant. Lucas will be one of the investors who will help the contestants open a provisional restaurant, and then after the practice run, decide if she wants to invest in it and help the contests launch their vision. The show with its new co-host Lucas premiered in July, 2014.

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Cristine Patolot

Up and coming pastry chef, Cristine Patolot, made her grand entrance into the world of celebrity when she was invited to be the sole pastry chef for the Dancing With The Stars Season 18 official wrap up party.  Prior to this honor, the celebrity chef speaker began her work as a pastry chef studying at the internationally renowned French Pastry School of Chicago where she learned all the tricks of the trade. After her schooling, she worked at Macy’s Culinary Kitchen and started her own specialty cake business, Cristine’s Fine Pastries.

Chef Patolot’s talent in the bakery did not go unnoticed, as she was one of the few selected to assist the famed chocolatier Thomas Haas at the World Pastry Forum, an international competition held every two years and aired by Food Network.  She was also invited to study under renowned cake designers, and Food Network judges, Nicholas Lodge, Colette Peters, and Kerry Vincent. In 2008, Cristine established French Cakes Patisserie, a classic Parisian-style bakery, where she quickly became known for her intricate, elegant, and most importantly delicious, French Style desserts. Located in Plainfield, just outside of Chicago, the bakery has become a hot spot for tourists and locals looking for a bite to satisfy their sweet tooth. 2014 was a huge year for the pastry chef when she got the call requesting her expertise for the Dancing With The Stars wrap up party dessert. In the company of several Top Chefs and Master Chefs who were also helping cook for the event, chef Patolot did not fail to impress some of Hollywood’s most elite with her masterpiece of a dessert. In just two days she was able to create a replica of the show’s dance floor, with three-tiered audience, out of 700 cupcakes.  The impressive cupcake tower can be seen featured on TMZ, as the paparazzi were all over the event snapping pictures of celebrities enjoying the accomplished chef’s creation.

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Dominique Ansel

Celebrity Chef and owner of his own well-known bakery Dominique Ansel’s claim to fame is the creation of the cronut, a very popular dessert crossing a croissant and doughnut that burst on to the scene in 2013. The cronut has received attention world wide and has been featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, ABC’s The Chew, Inside Edition, Fox & Friends, Live with Kelly and Michael, CNN’s Piers Morgan Live with Anthony Bourdain, E! News, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Time Magazine named it one of the 25 Best Inventions of 2013.  Celebirty Chef Speaker Dominique has also invented other culinary creations such as the Frozen S’more and Magic Soufflé, which have also gained international intention.  These dessert creations earned him the title as the “Willy Wonka of NYC” by The New York Post.

In addition to his creations, the Dominique Ansel Bakery has also seen much success. Just four months after opening its doors, the bakery was awarded Time Out New York’s Best New Bakery of 2012 and Metromix’s Best Bakery of 2012. As a result of his quick success and rise to fame, Dominique was named one of Business Insider’s Most Innovative People Under 40 in 2013.  The James Beard Foundation nominated him as a finalist for the Outstanding Pastry Chef award, and he was named one of the Top 10 Pastry Chefs in the United States by Dessert Professional magazine. He was also called the “most feted pastry chef in the world” by the Daily Mail UK, and was deemed one of the Top 10 Pastry Chefs You Need to Know by Time Out New York.

Chef Ansel is a annual supporter of the fight to end hunger with the Food Bank of New York City.  In 2013, he launched a series of campaigns for the fight to end hunger that increased Food Bank search engine awareness and raised thousands of dollars for the cause.  His first cookbook Dominique Ansel: The Secret Recipes (working title) will be released in October 2014.

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