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Kardea Brown

Kardea Brown is an acclaimed chef, cookbook author, and television personality known for her Southern cooking and warm, engaging personality. Born on November 4, 1987, in Charleston, South Carolina, Brown grew up surrounded by the rich culinary traditions of her family’s kitchen. Her passion for cooking was inspired by her grandmother, who instilled in her the importance of comfort food and family gatherings. After earning her degree in sociology, she pursued her culinary dreams, eventually establishing herself as a leading voice in the culinary world.

Culinary Ventures:

Kardea Brown is the creator of the popular cooking blog “The Brown Sugar,” where she shares her favorite Southern recipes and cooking tips. Her blog quickly gained a following, leading to opportunities in television and publishing. In 2020, she published her first cookbook, “The Way Home: A Celebration of Sea Island Food and Family,” which features a collection of recipes that reflect her Southern roots and familial connections. The book emphasizes the importance of food as a means of bringing people together and showcases her signature dishes, rich with flavor and history.

Television Career:

Brown is perhaps best known for her role as the host of the Food Network show “Delicious Miss Brown,” which premiered in 2019. The series features Kardea cooking her favorite Southern dishes while sharing stories from her family and highlighting her cultural heritage. Her warm demeanor and passion for food have resonated with audiences, making her a beloved figure in food television. Brown has also made guest appearances on various Food Network programs, including “The Kitchen” and “Beat Bobby Flay,” further establishing her presence in the culinary media landscape.

Endorsements and Brand Partnerships:

Kardea Brown’s growing popularity has led to several endorsement deals and brand partnerships. She has collaborated with prominent brands in the food industry, leveraging her expertise and personal style to promote products that align with her culinary philosophy. Her partnerships often focus on elevating Southern cuisine and making it accessible to home cooks.

Speaking Engagements and Food Festivals:

Brown is a sought-after speaker at culinary events and food festivals, where she shares her love for cooking and engages with fans. She has participated in events such as the Atlanta Food & Wine Festival and the Charleston Wine + Food Festival, where she conducts cooking demonstrations and discusses her culinary journey. Her approachable style and ability to connect with audiences make her a highlight at these gatherings.

Philanthropy and Advocacy:

Kardea Brown is dedicated to various philanthropic efforts, particularly those focused on food education and community support. She actively participates in initiatives that promote cooking skills and healthy eating in underserved communities. Her commitment to using food as a means of bringing people together reflects her belief in its power to create positive change.

Conclusion:

Kardea Brown’s culinary career is a celebration of Southern traditions and family connections. Through her successful blog, television presence, and published works, she has made a significant impact in the culinary world. Brown continues to inspire home cooks with her approachable recipes and engaging storytelling, showcasing the rich flavors of Southern cuisine. As she expands her culinary endeavors and connects with new audiences, Kardea Brown remains a vibrant and influential figure in the food industry.

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Pati Jinich

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CUISINE: Mexican

SHOWS: Pati’s Mexican Table

SPECIALTIES: Corporate Appearances, Endorsements, Speaking Engagements & Autograph Signings, Cooking demonstrations, Hosting, Mommy Blogger Events, SMTS, Public Relation Campaigns, Team Building Events and Corporate Hospitality

BIO: Born and raised in Mexico, Pati Jinich comes from a background of accomplished chefs and food maniacs. Maybe this describes her obsession with food? Before she became a chef, she was a political analyst but realized that she loved food too much to not have time to cook dinners.

After teaching Mexican cooking to friends and family, she became a production assistant for the PBS food series, New Tastes from Texas hosted by Chef Stephan Pyles, Diana Kennedy and Patricia Quintana. Pati Jinich and her family picked up their things and moved to Washington D.C. where she was a political analyst. The more time she spent thinking about food, the more she thought politics was not for her. In 2007, promoted by the Director of the Mexican Cultural Institute, Pati launched Mexican Table.

Mexican Table; a culinary program consists of a series of cooking demonstrations, tasting dinners and workshops. She uses her knowledge of Mexican cooking to help familiarize people with its ingredients and cooking techniques. Pati Jinich is available for cooking demonstrations, hosting, and corporate appearances.

ENDORSEMENTS: Calidad Suprema, Cortez Brothers, WETA, Create, APT, Mission

WHO REPRESENTS PATI JINICH: Celebrity Chef Pati Jinich 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.

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Darren McGrady

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CUISINE: American

BIO: Darren was personal chef to Queen Elizabeth II, Diana, Princess of Wales and Princes’ William and Harry for fifteen years and has cooked for five US Presidents. He is now a chef, author, culinary consultant, event planner and public speaker living in Dallas, Texas. His first cookbook titled ‘Eating Royally; recipes and remembrances from a palace kitchen’ is now in fifth print with all of his advance and royalties donated to the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation.

He has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, several times on CNN’s Larry King Live, the Fox News Channel, BBC, CBC, MSNBC and Sky Television. On Fox and Friends covering the Princess Diana Memorial. CNN covering the Royal Wedding and cooked on the Today Show and CBS Early Show in New York,

From 1980- 1982 Darren trained at the prestigious Savoy Hotel, London achieving the position of Chef-de-partie Saucier. In 1982, he moved to the Royal Kitchen at Buckingham Palace where for 11 years he cooked for the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and their guests on a daily basis and catered banquets for Foreign Heads of State including Presidents’ Bush, Clinton, Reagan and Ford. His duties included traveling with the royal family to Windsor Castle, Sandringham House and Balmoral Castle as well as on the Royal Yacht Britannia on royal tours around the world.

In 1993 he moved to Kensington Palace as Private Chef to H.R.H. the Princess of Wales. For four years ( until the tragic accident in August 1997) he took control of Princess Diana’s, William and Harry’s day to day menus and the preparation and catering of private and official lunch and dinner parties, liasing with the Princess daily. Declining an offer from H.R.H. the Prince of Wales to become his Private Chef at St James Palace, Darren decided to pursue a new challenge in the U.S.A. where he moved to in 1998 with his wife Wendy. They have three children, Kelly, Lexie and Harry. Since the Princess’s death, he has devoted much of his free time working for causes she supported, including shelters for battered women, charities for children with chronic illnesses and disabilities and breast cancer charities. Darren is a board member of the Pink Ribbons Crusade, a not for profit charity that uses its museum-type exhibit “A Date with Diana” to promote Breast Cancer awareness.

He also teaches cooking classes, hosts corporate and charity events that include presentations on the royal family. Darren recently became the first private chef invited to cook at the prestigious James Beard House in New York and is currently featured on American Airlines on first and business class in-flight meals between Europe and the USA.

APPEARANCES: He has appeared several times on CNN’s Larry King Live, the Fox News Channel, BBC, CBC, MSNBC and Sky Television. Following the death of Princess Diana, Darren covered her memorial on Fox and Friends. Darren covered the Royal Wedding and had cooked on the Today Show and CBS Early Show.

BOOKS: ‘Eating Royally; recipes and remembrances from a palace kitchen’

WHO REPRESENTS DARREN MCGRADY: Celebrity Chef Darren McGrady 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 Darren McGrady for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or 212-410-9879.

Susur Lee

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NETWORKS: Bravo, Food Network

SHOWS: Top Chef Masters, Iron Chef America

CHARITIES: James Beard Foundation in Kansas City and Santa Fe, cancer research at Spinizolla in Boston, Null Foundation, Jewish National Fund, Daniel Nestor Charity Event (in Toronto)

BIO: Celebrity Chef Susur Lee is one of the world’s foremost culinary authorities in Asian inspired and Asian fusion cuisine. From his humble culinary beginnings as a 15 year-old apprentice in Hong Kong’s swell-egant hotels, to his position as one the cooking world’s most sought after chefs, Chef Lee has maintained his passion to “explore beyond the horizons of received culinary knowledge, and to create unique, sublime compositions for the palate that blend textures and flavors in sensuous harmony.”

Ever since his first restaurant, Lotus, which opened in Toronto in 1987, Chef Lee has been regarded as a culinary master. The 12-table Lotus immediately captured the taste buds of customers and thrilled critics alike. Courvoisier’s Book of the Best proclaimed Lotus the finest restaurant in the country and Chef Susur Lee as a leading young Toronto chef. Zagat even went so far as to call Lee “a culinary genius.”

After a decade of working at Lotus, Chef Susur Lee decided to travel to Asia for a “re-energizing” period. During the next three years abroad, Chef Lee served as head chef for the exclusive Club Chinoise in Singapore and consulted to the Tung Lok Group. He improved the menus of 17 restaurants, launched new restaurant ventures and oversaw 45 chefs make return trips to Toronto. When Lee himself decided to return to Toronto, he had plans to open up a new kitchen in the hip downtown neighborhood of Toronto’s King Street West. His new expansive gastro-dome restaurant, Susur, immediately garnered praise from critics and sterling reviews from publications such as Food & Wine magazine. The publication even went so far as to name Chef Susur Lee one of the “Ten Chefs of the Millennium.”

More recently, Chef Lee has cooked for the Princess of Thailand, competed on Iron Chef America, manned the grill as “guest chef” at Charle Trotter’s, The Four Seasons Atlanta, Ken Oringer and Ming Tsai, and was a recent participant at the “Master of Food and Wine” festivel in Carmel, California. Susur has also appeared on Bravo’s Top Chef Masters television series. Additionally, he has opened a sister restaurant, entitled “Lee,” to match his already wildly popular kitchen, “Susur.” The restaurants are located right next to each other and compliment them perfectly.

When he is not splitting time working at restaurants or festivals, Celebrity Chef Susur Lee makes numerous appearances on Food Network, guest lectures all over the world and contributes to charity projects such as the James Bear Foundation, cancer research and the Null Foundation, which provides scholarships for underprivileged students to attend cooking schools. Celebrity Chef Susur Lee is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

ENDORSEMENTS: Kraft

BOOKS: Susur: A Culinary Life

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

Stephan Pyles

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NETWORKS: PBS

SHOWS: New Tastes from Texas

CHARITIES: Share Our Strength, The North Texas Food Bank, The Dallas Hunger Link, Taste of the Nation,

BIO: Esquire Magazines Chef of the Year for 2006, Stephan Pyles is the chef and owner of Stephan Pyles Concepts. Stephan is a pioneer of New American cooking and is the founding father of Southwestern Cuisine. With over 15 restaurants in four cities under his belt including Routh Street Café, Baby Routh, and Star Canyon Texas Monthly named his restaurant, Stephan Pyles, the Best New Restaurant in Texas.

His second Arts District restaurant opened in 2009, Samar by Stephen Pyles, serving “International Plates” which was inspired by his travels to India, Spain and the Eastern Mediterranean. The restaurant has been named Best New Restaurant—2009 by The Dallas Morning News. The author of four cookbooks, Stephan has hosted an Emmy-award winning and nationally syndicated PBS TV series called New Tastes from Texas. Stephan is a cuisine consultant for American Airlines and The Dallas Museum of Art. He has developed restaurants for Hotel ZaZa and The Gaylord Texan in Dallas and is creating a restaurant, food and beverage program for Eilan Hotel and Spa. He has also cooked for four American presidents, Queen Elizabeth and numerous heads of state and movie stars.

Stephan Pyles has accumulated several awards including the AAA Five Diamond Award; Nation’s Restaurant News’ Fine Dining Hall of Fame Award Restaurants and Institutions’, and the Ivy Award and the American Academy of Achievement Award. Winning the James Beard Award for Best Chef, he is the first person from the Southwest to win the award, the first Texan inducted into Who’s Who of Food and Wine in America, and finally Outstanding Restaurateur of the Year by Minnesota Restaurant Association and Texas Restaurant Association.

Named, Humanitarian of the Year Award from Share Our Strength, named one of the 20 most influential Texans by Texas Monthly. Stephan is a founding board member of Share Our Strength—America’s largest private source of funding for hunger-relief, a board member of The North Texas Food Bank and co-founder of The Dallas Hunger Link, Dallas’s perishable food program. He founded Taste of the Nation and has raised over $2 million for hunger relief focusing on children. For year, he offered a $15,000 annual scholarship in his name to a rising star culinary student in Texas. Stephan Pyles is available for speaking engagements, hosting and endorsements.

APPEARANCES: PBS

BOOKS: The New Texas Cuisine, New Tastes From Texas, Southwestern Vegetarian, Tamales

WHO REPRESENTS STEPHAN PYLES: Celebrity Chef Stephan Pyles 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 Stephan Pyles 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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