Sam Kass

Celebrity Chef Sam Kass is all about a nice garden to table meal. For the past few years he has served as President Barack Obama’s Senior Advisor on Nutrition and the official White House Chef up until December of 2014. He is the first chef to plant a vegetable garden on the White House grounds since the 1890’s. When Sam decided to join the President in the White House he also became the Executive Director of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! Campaign for health promotion among children.

Celebrity Chef Speaker Sam Kass was named #11 on Fast Company magazine’s 2011 100 Most Creative People list for his work with the Let’s Move! Campaign.

Sam’s got the answers to your questions on everything organic!

Sam’s cooking career started a little different than most. During his junior year of college, Sam worked under Dean Zanella at 312 Chicago. This sparked an interest that would change his life forever. During his senior year, Sam decided to study abroad in Austria and trained under Chef Christian Domschitz. When his time there came to an end, Sam continued traveling around the world studying under some amazing chefs including Chef Paul Kahan.

Sam moved back to Chicago in 2006 and in 2007 and opened the Inevitable Table, his personal culinary company that focused solely on health conscious and nutritious food. Soon after, Sam became the Obama’s personal chef. In 2009 he moved with the Obamas to the White House and became an assistant chef under Executive Chef Cris Comerford. He also became Michelle Obama’s Food Initiative Coordinator. Sam was promoted to Senior Policy Advisor for Healthy Food Initiatives in 2010. Celebrity Chef Sam is comfortable in front of the mic after providing countless interviews, press conferences and fundraising events as the go-to chef on new health initiatives.

Sam spent some of his time in 2014 traveling around the world to promote “Let’s Move!” and acting as a keynote speaker at events. Sam has also been very involved in school nutrition. He led the political defense of the Department of Agriculture’s new school standards in hopes of creating a healthier cafeteria menu.

2015 will be a new year for Sam! In December of 2014, Sam decided to retired his apron at the White House and move to New York City. We are so excited to see what this new path holds for Chef Sam and his inspiring career to create a healthier nation.

Andrea Beaman

Celebrity Chef Network, a celebrity chef booking agency, is proud to present celebrity chef speaker for hire Andrea Beaman who has dubbed herself the Holistic Health and Thyroid Expert and audiences who have heard her speak would most certainly agree! Celebrity Chef Speaker Andrea is a natural foods chef, author and health coach dedicated to assisting others in achieving the perfect balance of physical, emotional and spiritual health. She has been active in raising awareness about the poor quality of today’s foods and encouraging the use of non-GMO and organic foods.

Andrea experienced a health scare early in her career that forced her to make a choice that would set the tone for the rest of her life. After doctors had suggested radiation treatment on her thyroid to remove an incurable disease, Andrea opted for natural rehabilitation as opposed to the radiation treatments. 2 years later her symptoms had completely disappeared.

She has positioned herself as a go-to source for information on natural healing and living a healthy lifestyle. Some of her regular speaking topics include reducing stress naturally, nourishing thyroid health, women’s wellness, seasonal eating and simple steps to achieving your ideal weight. She has appeared as a guest keynote speaker at many conferences and events each year including The Holistic Mom’s National Conference, Take Back Your Health Conference and The Gaia’s Women’s Wellness Conference.

Before becoming her own business, she became well-known as a competitor on the first season of Bravo’s Top Chef and has been regularly featured on TV as a health expert in recent years. She has guest starred on The View, Emeril Live, and Whole Living on Martha Stewart Radio. Chef Andrea hosts the Award Nominated cooking show Fed UP!, where she helps educate her special guests as well as the viewers about healthy eating and using food to cure your body. Andrea runs a personal website that offers recipes, video blogs, food tips, holistic health coaching, books, DVD’s, and other health-related information.

Andrea’s passion truly comes to life in her cooking classes and health seminars. She teaches people from all around the world at The Institute For Integrative Nutrition, the Natural Gourmet Cooking School, The James Beard House, The Open Center, and other schools around the country. Andrea is the author of three books, The Whole Truth – How I Naturally Reclaimed My Health, and You Can Too!, and The Eating and Recipe Guide – Better Food, Better Health, and Health is Wealth – Make a Delicious Investment in You!.

Cindi Avila

No one knows vegetarian and vegan food better than chef, public relations specialist, spokesperson and Celebrity Chef Speaker Cindi Avila. Her extensive knowledge about food and her experience in front of the camera makes her the perfect pick for her most recent endeavor as the celebrity spokesperson for innovative vegetable brand Veggie Patch. Because she personally serves her family the brand, she feels that it is a natural fit and is very excited to share her interest with other consumers to incorporate more vegetables into their diets.

After working in several restaurants, Cindi’s love and passion for food grew immensely so she decided to take her culinary ventures to the prestigious Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City where she graduated from the Chef’s Training Program.

She has not only been featured in numerous Food Network series, including Chopped, won TLC’s reality and cooking competition Dinner Takes All, and was even filmed cooking for The Real Housewives of New York City. Cindi starred in several episodes her self-produced show titled Green Goddess as well as appeared on news outlets including Fox News, ABC, CBS, NBC, and Bravo’s Pregnant in Heels.

From there, Cindi served as a spokesperson for Lightlife, one of the biggest vegetarian food companies in the nation and gained insight on the best way to get the “meat-free message” to the world. Her recipes have been featured in the New Greengrocer Cookbook and she put together the Good Morning America cookbook for the iPad. In addition to her television appearances, she is the owner of Green Goddess Public Relations Company, where she recognizes how to get products on TV and how to craft them.

Cindi devotes her spare time through her “No Meat No Problem” and “Green Goddess Food” blogs. She uses these as a means for people to gain awareness about a green lifestyle as well as to provide benefits of eating healthier.

Nadia Giosia

There’s a reason Nadia Giosia is called the “Julia Child of the Net generation,” and it has everything to do with her spunk, humor, and cooking skills. Celebrity Chef Speaker Nadia started off posting videos on Youtube and running a boutique web design and branding studio, but she decided to take it to the next level by adding in a key ingredient, and of course it was food. Concentrating on organic, fresh, and readily available ingredients with a pinch of her Italian heritage thrown in, Nadia’s initial Cooking Channel series, Bitchin’ Kitchen, which aired in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom, followed by her latest show Bite This with Nadia G, has made this Italian girl into a cooking sensation. In 2009, she released her first cookbook, The Bitchin’ Kitchen Cookbook: Rock Your Kitchen and Let the Boys Clean Up the Mess, which went on to become a bestseller.

Nadia is no amateur to television; in 2011, she was featured on an episode of Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern. The following year, she competed with Michael Symon on Iron Chef America, going up against famed chefs Ted Allen, Masaharu Morimoto, and Robert Irvine in a special Holiday Gingerbread battle. In 2013, Nadia competed on Food Network’s wildly popular series Chopped All Stars in the show’s third season.

This hip, comedic, and fun loving chef likes to play up dishes, ranging from the classics and comforts to new combinations, with recipes like Tiramisu Cupcakes, Meatloaf with Awesome Sauce, Penne Algio-Olio-Anything, and Red-Hot Chili. Her philosophy in the kitchen, and in life, is to be a go-getter and just try for it, because eventually you will get the hang of it. One thing is for sure, and that is no matter what she is cooking up, Nadia is wildly entertaining and does it in style.

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Nikki Shaw

Celebrity Chef Speaker Nikki Shaw is dedicated to cooking healthful food and combatting childhood obesity. In her words, you either “pay now or pay later,” and diabetes and heart disease are the price of eating fast food. The advocate for reshaping the palates of the African-American community leads by example by preparing healthful meals for her own family, citing changing her husband, former professional basketball player and current coach of the Denver Nuggets, Brian Shaw’s diet as her biggest challenge. Nikki has taken her mission public as the spokesperson for the California Department of Public Health’s Network for a Healthy California & Champions for Change. She also represents First 5 California, providing cooking demonstrations and public service announcements about the importance of healthy eating and an active lifestyle for both organizations. Additionally, she is a featured chef for numerous national brands and companies such as the Anthem, Kaiser Permanente, the American Heart Association and the American Diabetes Association. She champions her cause across multiple platforms; she also serves as an online chef for Kraft Foods and an expert contributor to MomLogic.com by Warner Brothers.

Nikki made her first television appearance on the popular show the Next Food Network Star, where she was a finalist in its third season. Soon after Nikki was featured as a guest chef on Jamie Foxx’s From G’s to Gents as well as VH1’s popular series Basketball Wives. A basketball wife herself, Nikki took part in the NBA Cares campaign, offering her healthful recipes and lifestyle tips to the league’s biggest teams such as the Los Angeles Lakers and the Indiana Pacers. When Nikki isn’t in the kitchen or with her husband and two children, you can tune into her daily radio show called Today’s Flavor, which streams in New York.

Cooking demonstrations, endorsements, personal appearances, PR campaigns, speaking engagements, hire, book, we represent, contact, find celebrities, chefs and agents for Nikki Shaw. If you want to find the representation, PR firm, marketing company, corporate consulting, speaking agent, to book or hire Nikki Shaw, Celebrity Chef Network is the agency of corporate consulting for your program. Our booking agents are the best in the business for consulting companies, agencies and universities in finding fees, availability and interest for celebrity chefs like Nikki Shaw for any type of event, appearance, speaking engagement, endorsement, corporate event, motivational speech, PR campaigns, etc. Call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.  Our booking agents are here to help you hire your Celebrity Chef now.

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