Geoffrey Blount

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CHARITIES: Bakery Bistro Initiative at Central Piedmont Community College – helps raise scholarship money for baking and pastry-arts students

BIO: Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount is a certified executive pastry chef (CEPC) from Stanley, NC. Chef Blount currently works as the executive pastry chef and head instructor of the Bakery and Pastry Arts program at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). He graduated from CPCC in 1995 with an AAS degree in Culinary Arts and also attended the French Pastry School in Chicago. Chef Geoffrey Blount has been teaching at CPCC since 2007 and also is the owner of Sugar Buzz Pastry.

Prior to accepting a position with CPCC, Chef Geoffrey Blount’s professional career consists of work as a Pastry Chef, Executive Chef and Owner at top hotels, shops and clubs throughout the southeastern United States. He is a member of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), was named the 2009 Charlotte Chef of the Year, owned pastry shops that won the Best Pastry Shop award in 2005 and 2006, and was a Top Ten Charlotte Chef for 2004. Additionally, his dessert creations were featured at the James Beard Dinner in 2004 and 2005, an impressive distinction. It is Chef Blount’s career goal to become a certified master pastry chef, of which there are only 14 in the entire United States. Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: Food Network

WHO REPRESENTS GEOFFREY BLOUNT: Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount 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 Geoffrey Blount for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

Gale Gand

Hire Gale Gand 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, pbs

SHOWS: sweet dreams, baking with julia

CHARITIES: Gale Gand is a member of the National Restaurant Association’s “Conserve” Council which pushes the environmental movement on eating locally and using sustainable agriculture. Gale is involved in community causes such as Chicago’s Green City Market, Let’s Move, Art Smith’s foundation, Common Threads, and teaches baking lessons at her son’s middle school and her daughter’s preschool.

BIO: Celebrity Chef Chef Gale Gand is the executive pastry chef and partner of the four star Mobil, five-diamond AAA, Relais & Chateaux Relais-Gourmand restaurant Tru. In 2001, Gale was acknowledged as Outstanding Pastry Chef by The James Beard Foundation and Pastry Chef of the Year by Bon Appetite magazine, in 1994 was named Food and Wine’s Top Ten Best New Chefs. Gale studied at RIT and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts for American Craftsmen and attended culinary school at La Varenne in Paris. In 2006, Gale opened up a coffee shop called Gale’s Coffee Bar, also opening in the same year, Osteria di Tramonto, Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood and RT Lounge with Rick Tramonto. In Chicago, she opened up an upscale cupcake bakery.

Gale Gand was also the host of Food Network’s Sweet Dreams, which was Food Network’s first all-dessert show. She is the host of an online educational cooking series called, The Answered Chef. Gale’s current show, The Heirloom Recipe, airs on PBS. Gale has a long list of appearances including Martha Stewart, Oprah, Iron Chef America, the Today Show, Baking with Julia Child, and judged the Food Network’s Challenge and the 2008 season of Bravo’s Top Chef. Gale has seven cookbooks, her most recent, Gale Gand’s Brunch, which was released in spring of 2009. Gale also produces her own vanilla cream soda, and a root beer called Gale’s Root Beer with artisanal cinnamon, ginger and vanilla infused. At the USA House at the Beijing Olympics, Gale’s desserts were featured and Gale is an original member of the Macy’s Culinary Council.

Gale Gand is a member of the National Restaurant Association’s “Conserve” Council which pushes the environmental movement on eating locally and using sustainable agriculture. Gale is involved in community causes such as Chicago’s Green City Market, Art Smith’s foundation, Common Threads, and teaches baking lessons at her son’s middle school and her daughter’s preschool. Gale is an executive board member of the Chicago chapter of the AIWF, and a long time member of the James Beard Foundation and Les Dames D’Escoffier.

Gale talked to Celebrity Baby Scoop about getting kids involved with the baking/cooking process, simple ways to stay eco-friendly, and her role as a mentor in Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative. Gale is a huge supporter of the Let’s Move project to help families become more active to live a happier and healthier lifestyle. Another supporter of Let’s Move is Dominique Dawes and NFL Quarterback Drew Brees.

Gale endorses Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Light Brown Sugar and can be hired for cooking demonstrations, public speaking and autograph signings.

APPEARANCES: Food Network, Sat May 21 NRA Show in Chicago,

ENDORSEMENTS: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Light Brown Sugar, Nestles, Karo, Whirlpool, Hershey’s, Millstone Coffee, California Dried Plums, All Clad Cookware, Vita Prep Blender’s “Chefs Naked With Their Blender” campaign, The American Dairy Farmer’s Real Butter and Cheese campaigns, The American Dairy Association’s Milk Mustache campaign, Chefwear, Nordic Bakeware, Chefs for Humanity

BOOKS: Tramonto, Rick, and Gale Gand;, Gand, Gale, Rick Tramonto, and Julia Moski;, Gand, Gale and Julia Moski;, Gand, Gale and Julia Mosk;, Tramonto, Rick, Gale Gand, and Mary Goodbody; Gand, Gale and Lisa Weiss; Gand, Gale

WHO REPRESENTS GALE GAND: Celebrity Chef Gale Gand 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 Gale Gand for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

Elizabeth Falkner

Hire Elizabeth Falkner 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, Bravo

SHOWS: Top Chef Masters, Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Sugar Rush, Top Chef, Top Chef: Just Desserts

BIO: Pastry chef and owner of Citizen Cake and co-owner of Orson, Elizabeth Falkner began her career as a chef at Café Claude. After Café Claude, she moved to Mesa with Chef Juilan Serrano. By 1994, Elizabeth was named head of the pastry division at Drew Nieporent’s Rubicon by Chef Traci Des Jardins.

Three years later, Elizabeth Falkner opened Citizen Cake in the South of Market district of San Francisco. In 2000, Elizabeth moved the restaurant to 399 Grove Street in Hayes Valley district. She has toured Japan and taught professional pastry courses and was a consultant on pasta for Barilla. Elizabeth Falkner has been a guest judge on Top Chef on Bravo, has appeared on Iron Chef America, Tyler’s Ultimate, $40 a Day, Sugar Rush, Best Of, Bay Café, Top Chef-Pastry and many others. Elizabeth Falkner has been awarded many awards including ‘Rising Star Chef’ by the San Francisco Chronicle, ‘Pastry Chef of the Year’ by San Francisco Magazine, ‘Golden Bowl’ for ‘Best Pastry Chef’ by Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, ‘Best Pastry Chef’ nomiee by the James Beard Foundation and many others. Elizabeth is avalible for cooking demonstrations, corporate hospitality, and hosting.

APPEARANCES: Top Chef Masters, Food Network Challenge, Iron Chef America, Sugar Rush, Top Chef, Top Chef: Just Desserts, Bravo, Food Network

BOOKS: Demolition Desserts: Recipes from Citizen Cake, Cooking Off the Clock

WHO REPRESENTS ELIZABETH FALKNER: Celebrity Chef Elizabeth Falkner 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 Elizabeth Falkner for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

Amanda Cook

Hire Amanda Cook 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: Amanda Cook is originally from Washington DC and graduated with honors from L’Academie de Cuisine, and since has worked for some of the most highly respected chefs in the DC area. Amanda Cook’s career took off with working at Galileo for Roberto Donna, then for Michel Richard Citronelle, and finally at Cityzen for Eric Ziebold for the past 6 years.

Last year, Amanda Cook was nominated for the James Beard Foundation Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef in the United States and a Rammy throught the Restaruant Association of Metropolitan Washington. She is available for cooking demonstrations, endorsements, and corporate appearances.

WHO REPRESENTS AMANDA COOK: Celebrity Chef Amanda Cook 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 Amanda Cook for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com  or 212-410-9879.

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.

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