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Andy LoRusso

Celebrity chef for hire Andy LoRusso made his big break with the timeless cookbook Sing & Cook Italian. From a large Sicilian family, Andy has spent his life surrounded by Italian cooking. Also a gifted musician, it only makes sense that Andy was destined to become “The Singing Chef”.

Andy began his career as a recording artist, producing jazzy tunes. This can be seen in The Singing Chef’s first record: Side A – The Great Magic of Love and Side B – Dancing Master. Later, Andy moved to California, studying great Italian composers under the tutelage of Giovanna d’Onofrio. Finally arriving upon the idea to combine his love of the Italian cooking and music, “The Singing Chef” was officially born.

Nowadays, Andy travels the world performing at various events. He is very popular at casinos, resorts, trade shows and conventions. Most popular is his Taste of Italy Show. Here, Andy offers a 90-minute performance and four course meal for guests, satisfying their hunger for both food and entertainment. For example, he has made appearances at the Unico Santa Barbara Key Note and the South Lake Tahoe Food & Wine Festival. In addition, Andy made a very memorable performance at Longtable Restaurant in Istanbul, Turkey. This was booked by Capa-Marka Entertainment Productions who oversees four exclusive restaurants in Istanbul. Andy also sang for over 50,000 guests at the prestigious Isle of Wight Festival. Joining him, Rock icons like Sting, The Police, and the Sex Pistols headlined the event. You might also see Andy making television appearances on The Food Network and numerous local morning TV features.

Andy has several new projects including his 25th Anniversary Edition, Sing & Cook with Andy LoRusso The Singing Chef. Best of all, this edition is accompanied by his “That’s Amore” CD, so you can enjoy Andy’s complete culinary production at home. He has also come up with a more modern CD release, Cooking Cabaret: An International Cooking Musical. Not only a soundtrack, this playlist will become a musical debuting in theaters all over the United States and Canada. Andy is also in the process of producing a TV pilot for a show that will dramatically reunite estranged families by inviting them to recreate original family recipes while singing and cooking together.

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Mette Williams

Los Angeles-based celebrity chef for hire Mette Williams has burst onto the California culinary scene in recent years. Many may recognize her best from her big win on Anne Burrell‘s Food Network competition series Chef Wanted in 2013. She competed against other contestants for the position of executive chef of Culina, a modern Italian eatery located in the Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills. Since then, she has transformed the restaurant to make it her own. She focused on utilizing a variety of fresh produce sourced locally and adding some Mediterranean flair to the menu.

Mette relocated to LA after graduating from the California Culinary Academy in 2002. She became a trailblazer for women in the culinary industry when she was hired as one of the first female sous chefs at Wolfgang Puck‘s Spago in Beverly Hills. She spent 8 years working under Wolfgang, absorbing all the knowledge she could about food perfection and the restaurant business. Eventually she left Spago, but stayed under the Wolfgang Puck umbrella working at his popular restaurants Postrio in San Francisco and CUT in Beverly Hills.

Mette worked in the kitchen at Culina through 2015. She worked as an executive chef at several more restaurants including the Lab Gastropub and TOMGEORGE LA before taking a position as a sales executive for worldwide produce.

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Vinny Dotolo

Celebrity Chef for hire Vinny Dotolo is an L.A.-based celebrity chef and restaurateur who has partnered with friend and fellow celebrity chef Jon Shook to open critically-acclaimed restaurants Animal, Trois Mec, Petit Trois, Jon & Vinny’s and Trois Familia. Vinny is an innovator in contemporary culinary style and a pop culture icon. In 2016, Vinny and Jon partnered with legendary streetwear brand Vans to create a line of stylish, kitchen friendly shoes geared towards chefs working long hours in the kitchen. Later in the year it was announced that Vinny would be a featured celebrity chef on the Food Network’s new cooking reality show Star Plates.

Vinny attended culinary school at The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale. It was there that he met lifelong friend and business partner Jon Shook. The duo worked under fellow top celebrity chef Michelle Bernstein before moving west to Colorado to work at The Wildflower in Vail. In 2002, they packed up and moved to Los Angeles to work under Benjamin Ford at Chadwick. Vinny and Jon went on to found their own catering company called Carmelized Productions which spawned a Food Network show and award-winning cookbook.

They continued to build their foodie empire first in 2008 with the opening of Animal and Son of a Gun soon after in 2011. Trois Mec followed in 2013 with Jon & Vinny’s and Trois Familia opening their doors in 2015. In June of 2016, Vinny appeared alongside top celebrity chefs Anthony Bourdain and Mario Batali to cook at the 2016 (RED) Supper fundraising event in the fight against AIDS.

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Ali Maffucci

Celebrity Chef Speaker for hire Ali Maffucci is a celebrated food blogger, NY Times bestselling author and culinary entrepreneur. She is the creator of The Inspiralizer which turns fruits and vegetables into different sized noodles for delicious, healthy recipes! Ali’s popular online food blog Inspiralized is based around her healthy recipes and stories using The Inspiralizer in her own home kitchen. She is the author NY Times bestselling cookbook Inspiralized: Turn Vegetables into Healthy, Creative, Satisfying Meals. Her second cookbook titled Inspiralize Everything was released in August of 2016.

Ali started the brand in June of 2013 after leaving corporate America behind to chase her true passion for healthy home cooking. She is now grown the brand into a thriving business that has been featured in Food&Wine, Women’s Health, SHAPE, Williams-Sonoma and Oprah.com.

Ali is a part of a new wave of popular food bloggers including Gaby Dalkin and others who have become an inspiration to women all over the world through food. Ali’s story of her own 25 lbs. weight loss journey and other life experiences have made her one of the top celebrity chefs available for celebrity chef speaking engagements and personal appearances at trade shows, industry conferences and more.

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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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