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Matthew Kenney

Celebrity Chef Matthew Kenney is a celebrated member of the culinary community. Matthew has published 12 signature cookbooks to date and created his own company, Matthew Kenney Cuisine, which provides plant-based food services and products. He has also given 2 TEDxTalks in the past sharing his thoughts on the negative effects of processed foods and his ideas on how we should restructure the “Standard American Diet”. Matthew advocates for a raw plant-based diet that he says can drastically improve your quality of life when coupled with a healthy lifestyle.

Celebrity Chef Matthew Kenney earned his culinary stripes in the early 1990’s. After graduating from the French Culinary institute, he opened his first restaurant called Matthew’s in 1993. He was named the Best New Chef in America by Food & Wine Magazine in 1994. He was twice nominated for the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef in America in 1995 and 1996. As Matthew continued to establish himself in the New York food scene with a string of new eateries, he began to understand the importance of raw, organic and fresh ingredients.

In 2004, Matthew helped open Pure Food and Wine. This chic, vegan hotspot has twice been featured in New York Magazine’s Top 100 Restaurants list in addition to regularly appearing on Forbes Magazine’s list of All Star New York Eateries. In 2009, Celebrity Chef Matthew Kenney opened The Matthew Kenney Culinary Academy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma but has now moved it to Venice, California. This was the first state licensed raw food educational center in the world. Food & Wine Magazine has touted his courses on the fundamentals of raw cuisine and advanced raw cuisine as one of the best cooking classes around the world in 2015.

Your business or organization can book Celebrity Chef Matthew Kenney for Celebrity Chef speaking engagements, cooking demonstrations or other Celebrity chef appearance opportunities.

Eddie Jackson

Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson is a former NFL football player turned Celebrity Chef who was the winner of season 11 of the Food Network cooking competition series Food Network Star in 2015. Eddie beat out 12 other celebrity chef hopefuls and will now have his own cooking series on the Food Network. His pilot BBQ Blitz, aired during the finale of Food Network Star will serve as the basis for his new show centered around barbeque. Also a personal trainer and bodybuilder, Eddie prides himself on creating healthy, nutritious dishes that can help others life a healthier lifestyle without sacrificing the flavors they love.

Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson was a standout defensive back for the University of Arkansas. He was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Carolina Panthers in 2004. He spent the 2005 and 2006 seasons with the Miami Dolphins before suffering a torn ACL. The New England Patriots scooped him up out of free agency before the 2007 season. Again injuries would keep him from the field and he ended his professional football career with the Washington Redskins in 2008.

As a pro athlete, Eddie had always been big into fitness and eating healthy so he saw an opportunity to start a new career helping others live a healthier lifestyle. His appearance on Food Network Star was not his first crack at TV cooking competition series. Eddie came in 8^th place out of 19 talented contestants in season 4 of Gordon Ramsay’s MasterChef on Fox. In addition to his new gig with Food Network, Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson currently owns and operates his own popular food truck in Houston called the Caribbean Grill.

Contact Celebrity Chef Network today if you are interested in hiring Celebrity Chef Eddie Jackson to make a Celebrity Chef appearance at your upcoming conference, trade show or special event.

Michael Chernow

Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow is a celebrated member of the culinary community. Michael learned the ins and outs of the restaurant business growing up as a bartender in New York City and Los Angeles. His debonair style is now a signature element in the creation and development of his own restaurants, The Meatball Shop, which he co-owns with his friend Daniel Holzman, and Seamore’s seafood restaurant. Michael opened Seamore’s in the summer of 2015 while the Meatball Shop has now expanded to 6 locations in NYC since its inception in 2010. In August of 2015, Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow was one of several Celebrity Chefs including Amanda Freitag hired to headline the Champions of the Course VIP event hosted by Bon Apetit magazine. He is now the host of Food Porn airing on FYI Network. The show is partly inspired by the Instagram hashtag #foodporn that has populated over 50 million posts to date using the hashtag.

Celebrity Chef Speaker Michael took a little different path to superstardom than most celebrity chef speakers in the industry. He grew up under the lights of the exciting NYC nightlife. His first bartending gig was at the popular nightclub Life as well as its sister club The Tavern in East Hampton. Michael spent 2 years at these fine establishments before jumping on board to help open Woo Lae Oak’s at its former location on Mercer Street. It was in 2001 that Celebrity Chef Speaker Michael Chernow hit the west coast chasing a new culinary adventure at Woo Lae Oak’s original location in West Hollywood. A year later he returned to New York to work under Frank Prizanzano at his signature restaurant Frank. It was here that Michael truly began to understand what it would take to open a successful restaurant on his own.

After 7 years at Frank, Michael decided to enroll at the French Culinary Institute. He graduated in 2008 with a degree in the culinary arts and restaurant management and the rest is history! Michael’s first successful venture, The Meatball Shop, spawned a signature cookbook that was released in 2011. He has been involved in promotional material for several well-known brands including Coach, Equinox and Chase Ink. He is also a regular in GQ magazine, offering his style tips and tricks for the changing seasons.

In early 2016, Celebrity Chef Chernow launched his own juice brand, WellWell Juice. He has collaborated with Sagan Schultz, Collin Hughes and Larry Prauger to develop this new brand. On top of devoting time to grow his own brand Michael Chernow also does work with Lululemon’s men’s brand.

Would your organization like to hire a chef for your upcoming event or marketing campaign? Let a qualified celebrity chef booking agent help find the perfect celebrity chef for you! A celebrity chef speaker can create a dynamic event and add energy and excitement to your event. Celebrity chef appearances can consist of a cooking demonstration, personal appearances or a keynote speech. If you would like to hire Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9870 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

Dale Talde

Celebrity Chef Dale Talde is New York-based chef who rose to fame after several appearances on Bravo’s Emmy-award winning cooking competition series, Top Chef. A native of Chicago, Dale participated in Top Chef: Chicago (season 4) which aired in 2008. He went up against the likes of Spike Mendelsohn, Richard Blais and Stephanie Izard and came in 6^th place out of 14 renowned Celebrity Chefs. 2 years later, Celebrity Chef Dale Talde was back for more on Top Chef: All-Stars (season 8). Dale won 4 quick-fire challenges during that season and showed flashes of brilliance in merging Asian and American flavors.

Dale derives his culinary style from his Filipino heritage and his experiences growing up in Chicago. After graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, Dale worked at several notable restaurants in the Chicago area including Celebrity Chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Vong-Chicago. After working under Chef Carrie Nahabedian, Dale learned the value and importance of utilizing local ingredients. In 2005, he worked alongside esteemed Celebrity Chef Masaharu Morimoto to open his signature restaurant Morimoto in New York City.

Following his celebrity chef appearances on Top Chef, Dale had dreams of opening his own signature eateries. Soon enough, his dreams turned into reality. 2012 was a huge year for Celebrity Chef Dale Talde. He opened his first restaurant, TALDE, before partnering with several other chefs to create Pork Slope. Both restaurants are located in Brooklyn, New York. TALDE has an exquisite Asian-American menu while Pork Slope is Dale’s take on classic American bar food. In 2013, Food & Wine magazine named Dale Talde as the People’s Best New Chef. A year later, he opened his second TALDE location in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Celebrity Chef Dale Talde is a pioneer in Asian-American cuisine available for a variety of celebrity chef appearances including cooking demonstrations.

Antonia Lofaso

Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso gained notoriety in the culinary industry as a fan favorite on season 4 of the popular Bravo cooking competition series Top Chef in 2008. Since then, she has made celebrity chef appearances on major TV programs such as the Hallmark Channel and ABC’s The Chew. In 2010, Antonia returned to Bravo to participate in Top Chef: All-Stars. Antonia came in 3^rd place behind esteemed Celebrity Chefs Richard Blais and Mike Isabella. Most recently, Antonia has opened her own restaurants Black Market in Studio City, California as well as Scopa Italian Roots in Venice, California. In 2015, Antonia was a featured Celebrity Chef on the second season of NBC’s high-stakes culinary competition series Food Fighters.

Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso is the author of her own signature cookbook that hit shelves in 2013 called The Busy Mom’s Cookbook: 100 recipes for Quick, Delicious, Home-Cooked Meals. The cookbook covers a variety of quick and easy dishes for parents and families who are always on the go.

Antonia attended the acclaimed French Culinary Institute. After graduation, she was hired at world class Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck’s renowned eatery, Spago in Beverly Hills. She worked at the restaurant for six years before taking her culinary skills to the next level at Foxtail supper club in Los Angeles. It was during her time at Foxtail that she was chosen to be a contestant on Top Chef season 4. In addition to her commercial work, Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso has been a private chef to some of the biggest stars in Hollywood.

As a single mother to daughter Xea, Antonia has mastered the art of multi-tasking. She is a fulltime mom while acting as owner and executive chef of her two popular restaurants. It takes a lot of hard work and dedication, but Antonia maintains the perfect work/life balance.

Celebrity Chef Antonia Lofaso is an endearing Celebrity Chef personality available for cooking demonstrations and other Celebrity Chef appearances.

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