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Duskie Estes

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: Yes
Cookbook: Yes
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: American, Fusion, Garden to Table
Fee Range: $10,000 – $20,000

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Biography:

Celebrity chef for hire Duskie Estes is a beloved Food Network personality who rose to fame as a contestant on Food Network’s Next Big Star season 3 and season 5. She is currently a judge on Guy’s Grocery Games. Based in Sonoma County, California, Duskie and her husband John own and operate ZAZU kitchen + farm which has garnered numerous awards as one of the top restaurants in the Bay Area. Duskie fully embraces the farm to table and snout-to-tail approach in the kitchen as she sources all produce and meats for her restaurant from her own farm and garden. Her cooking style is simple yet flavorful, allowing the ingredients to shine for what they are in each dish.

Duskie will tell you she first fell in love with cooking at the age of 5 using her trusty EZ-Bake Oven. As she grew older, she couldn’t get enough of the restaurant life and began working in restaurants around the U.S. including Palace Kitchen in Seattle. While at Palace, Duskie was named Seattle Best Chef by City Search in 2000 and Gourmet Magazine ranked the Palace as one of the top 5 restaurants in Seattle and one of the top 50 restaurants in the country. In 2001, she helped co-author the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Seattle Kitchen with chef Tom Douglas.

Later in 2001, Duskie and her husband decided it was time to open up their own culinary venture and developed the concept for ZAZU. Since the grand opening, ZAZU has offered guests a seasonal menu that is focused on locally sourced produce and a variety of different cuts of meats. Duskie’s snout-to-tail approach includes saving kitchen scraps to feed the farm animals. In 2009, Duskie and John were given the Rising Star Chefs Award for Sustainability. ZAZU has also been included in the San Francisco Michelin Guide every year since 2008.

When she is not in the garden or the kitchen, Duskie travels the country for celebrity chef appearances at local food & wine festivals, trade shows and other special events. Duskie is available for cooking demonstrations as well as celebrity chef speaking engagements in which she can share her thoughts on food sustainability, her own farm to table and snout-to-tail approach, and her experiences as a celebrity chef on TV and in her own award-winning restaurant.

Would your organization like to hire Duskie Estes for your upcoming event or marketing campaign? Let a qualified celebrity chef booking agent help find the perfect celebrity chef speaker 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 Duskie Estes or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

Emily Ellyn

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: No
Cookbook: Yes
Restaurant: No
Cuisine: American, Fusion
Fee Range: $10,000 – $20,000

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Instrgram Followers: 4,467

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Biography:

Your audience is in for a treat when you hire Emily Ellyn for personal appearances! Emily is known as the Retro Rad Diva, conquering the kitchen one meal at a time in her signature horn-rimmed glasses. Her M.O. is taking old school recipes and infusing them with new quirks and flavors. Emily was a finalist on Next Food Network Star season 8 and has also competed on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars and Cutthroat Kitchen. She’s even made a cartoon cameo appearance on The Simpsons! Her vivacious personality and unique flair for creativity in the kitchen make her one of the top celebrity chefs for hire for trade shows, fundraisers and special events.

Emily grew up on a rural farm in Ohio where her love for fresh, local ingredients was born. She knew she wanted to work in the culinary industry at a young age. She got her start working in local Cleveland restaurants and eventually started her own catering company while still in high school. Emily went on to attend the Culinary Institute of America in New York before moving to Paris to attend graduate school at the Academie Internationale de Management. She has since earned 2 masters degrees in hospitality management and is finishing her Ph.D in Food Service Education!

Outside of personal appearances, celebrity chef speaker Emily writes features for industry publications such as Edible and Cake Central Magazines. She also donates her time to non-profit organizations such as the Florida Hospital and Give Kids The World, a special resort in Florida for children with life-threatening illnesses.

Would your organization like to hire Emily Ellyn for your upcoming event or marketing campaign? Let a qualified celebrity chef booking agent help find the perfect celebrity chef speaker 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 Emily Ellyn or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

Chef Dee

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: No
Cookbook: No
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: American, Celebrities in Food, Fusion
Fee Range: $10,000 – $20,000

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Instrgram Followers: 7,166

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Biography:

Celebrity chef for hire Chef Dee (De’Bronya Hodges) is perhaps best recognized as the personal chef of hip-hop music mogul DJ Khaled. The world was introduced to Chef Dee and her amazing culinary creations after DJ Khaled began snapchatting his everyday life in 2015 including some incredibly tasty meals from Chef Dee. Chef Dee became a viral social media sensation and she has since become a highly sought after celebrity chef for personal appearances including cooking demonstrations and event hosting. When not traveling the country for celebrity chef appearances, Chef Dee operates her own catering company, Empty Plates Catering, out of Miami, Florida. In February of 2017, she announced plans to open her first restaurant in Miami.

Chef Dee founded Empty Plates Catering company in 2012 after working in several Miami restaurants. She is a master chef of classic soul food and fuses international cuisines with her own special twist. Some of her specialties include crab cakes, broccoli & cheddar soup and mac & cheese as well as curry lobster and shrimp with cauliflower. And don’t forget her signature barbeque sauce! Chef Dee’s goal in the kitchen is to find the perfect balance of flavor, creativity and presentation.

Would your organization like to hire Chef Dee for your upcoming event or marketing campaign? Let a qualified celebrity chef booking agent help find the perfect celebrity chef speaker 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 Chef Dee or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

Chris Coombs

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: No
Cookbook: No
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: American, Classical French, Fusion
Fee Range: $10,000 – $20,000

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Instrgram Followers: 8,266

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Successful restaurateur and celebrity chef for hire Chris Coombs is the owner and executive chef of Boston Urban Hospitality which owns the restaurants dbar, Deuxave, and Boston Chops. Chris has built up these 3 restaurants located throughout the Boston area to generate over $10 million in annual sales with over 100 employees to oversee. His approach to restaurant hospitality focuses on pairing sophisticated French-American dishes with a casual, comfortable dining setting. In 2013, Forbes Magazine named Chris to their annual list of “30 Under 30” for his contributions in bettering the food & beverage industry.

Chris fell in love with the restaurant business after working his first job as a dishwasher at a seafood restaurant when he was just 11-years-old. During his teenage years, Chris participated in the Massachusetts Restaurant Association’s ProStart School-to-Career Program which allowed him to take courses and internships focused on the restaurant business in addition to his traditional schooling. Chris went on to attend the Culinary Institute of America and graduated in 2004. He began working in restaurants around Boston and eventually met chef Patrick O’Connell who hired him to help out at the Inn at Little Washington in Washington, Virginia. While there he cooked for many personal chefs of heads of state and was asked to cook for then First Lady Laura Bush and her guests at the White House on several occasions.

Eventually Chris was itching to open his own restaurant and partnered with restauranteur Brian Piccini who owned dbar to form their own restaurant group Boston Hospitality. Chris became executive chef and co-owner of the restaurant and started by building a garden on the roof to create his own source of fresh, local ingredients. In 2010, Chris officially opened his first restaurant Deuxave in Boston and 3 years later he opened the urban steak bistro Boston Chops which was named one of Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Steakhouses. 2013 was a coming out party for Chris when he was named to both Forbes and Zagat’s list of “30 Under 30” personalities as well as earning a nomination for The People’s Best New Chef in New England from Food & Wine Magazine. He has since made appearances on Food Network’s hit cooking competition series Chopped and makes regular celebrity chef appearances at food festivals and special events each year.

Would your organization like to hire Chris Coombs for your upcoming event or marketing campaign? Let a qualified celebrity chef booking agent help find the perfect celebrity chef speaker 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 Chris Coombs or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

Ryan Scott

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: Yes
Cookbook: Yes
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: American, Celebrities in Food, Fusion, Garden to Table
Fee Range: $20,000 – $50,000

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Instrgram Followers: 4,118

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Biography:

Restaurateur, TV host and celebrity chef for hire Ryan Scott rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth season of Bravo’s Top Chef cooking competition series and has since enjoyed quite a successful career in the culinary industry. Ryan is currently the host of his own radio cooking show on KGO 810 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Others may recognize him from his many celebrity chef appearances on top culinary shows such as The Rachael Ray Show, The Chew and The Talk on CBS. In 2016, his first cookbook titled One to Five from Time Books was chosen as a Top 20 Holiday Gift by Barnes & Noble.

Ryan attended the prestigious California Culinary Institute and then interned at Bistro Roxy in Reno, Nevada before setting sail for Hawaii and the island of Maui. Upon his return from the kitchens of Hawaii, Ryan worked under renowned chefs including Daniel Boulud and Charlie Trotter. In 2005, he joined the Myth Restaurant Group and helped open Myth Café, a crown jewel in the San Francisco foodie scene. Following his appearance on Top Chef, Ryan began working as a host of his own cooking TV shows on the Live Well Network called Food Rush and Home Chef Showdown. In 2014, he earned an Emmy Award for his work hosting Food Rush.

Away from the TV set, Ryan also owns and operates his own catering company, restaurants and food truck service called 3-Sum Eats. His restaurant Market & Rye was a major foodie hotspot in San Francisco before Ryan decided to shift focus to his newest successful restaurant Finn Town Tavern which opened in 2016. Ryan has also recently introduced his own line of housewares available on HSN in partnership with Epoca. His signature line includes environmentally-friendly cooking pots & pans, coffee makers and tea pots.

Would your organization like to hire Ryan Scott for your upcoming event or marketing campaign? Let a qualified celebrity chef booking agent help find the perfect celebrity chef speaker 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 Ryan Scott or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

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