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Gene Briggs

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: No
Cookbook: No
Restaurant: No
Cuisine: Classical French, Fusion, Garden to Table, Italian
Fee Range: Under $10,000

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CHARITIES: Matthews Farmers Market, Local Farmers Initiatives

BIO: Celebrity chef Gene Briggs has been a culinary mainstay in the Charlotte area for more than a decade. With over 25 years of experience, Chef Briggs has become a master of his craft. His restaurants Blue and Table are two of Charlotte’s most sought after restaurant reservations and have consistently been ranked as two of the city’s top eateries.

Chef Briggs got his start in the culinary industry in 1979, working in various restaurants located in upstate New York. Here, he honed and perfected his practice of using fresh ingredients to create a variety of dishes that sample cuisines from around the world. This philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients has defined and inspired Chef Briggs’ cooking throughout his career, something that is still evident at his restaurants today.

In 1991, Briggs moved to Charlotte to work at Prisms Restaurant. After getting his start in the Queen City, he spent time working at many of the city’s most well known restaurants. Finally, in 2003, Briggs opened up his own restaurant for the first time, Blue Restaurant & Bar. To no surprise, the establishment quickly gained a reputation as one of Charlotte’s best restaurants.

Serving up a variety of cuisines, Blue’s menu is inspired by Spanish, French, Sicilian, Italian, and Moroccan cuisines. Chef Briggs stays true to his philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients, as he purchases locally, farm grown ingredients. Additionally, Briggs as an advocate of developing a communal relationship between local farmers and his restaurants and uses Blue as a tasty vehicle to display the advantages of such a relationship.

Following the success of Blue Restaurant & Bar, Briggs opened Table Restaurant & Bar in 2006. Table also saw immediate success and firmly planted Briggs among Charlotte’s most sought after chefs. All in all, Chef Brigg’s restaurants have won the “Best in Hot Food” category at Taste of the Nation in 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008, have been recognized by Zagat as one of “America’s Top Restaurants” and have earned numerous Open Table awards. Brigg’s has also participated in three James Beard Dinners and numerous Chef’s Best Dinners.

Additionally, Chef Gene Briggs gives instructional cooking sessions once a month at his restaurant, Blue. Sessions are available to the public via signup, and each month Briggs focuses one utilizing one, fresh ingredient. Celebrity Chef Gene Briggs is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

WHO REPRESENTS GENE BRIGGS: Celebrity Chef Gene Briggs 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 Gene Briggs for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or (833) 773-2577.

Gavin Kaysen

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: Yes
Cookbook: No
Restaurant: No
Cuisine: Classical French
Fee Range: Under $10,000

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Hire Gavin Kaysen through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: Food Network

SHOWS: Next Iron Chef

BIO: In 2005, Gavin Kaysen took some time away from his own kitchen to do a brief internship in the kitchen at DANIEL. Today, that choice to make a move paid off when he was named executive chef at Daniel Boulud’s Café Boulud in New York.

“Gavin has energy, talent and incredible motivation,” says Daniel Boulud. “He is very well trained and eager to embrace classic French cooking.” Gavin Kaysen has been praised by many for his eagerness to learn, passion for cooking and drive to be the best. During his tenure as chef de cuisine of El Bizchoco in San Diego, he made his first appearance as guest chef at the James Beard House, was awarded Best Chef, Critics Choice, and took first place on the US National team competition for the Bocuse d’Or in Chicago, and finally went to France to represent the US at the 2007 Bocuse d’Or. Gavin Kaysen has been named one of Food & Wine magazine’s 10 Best New Chefs and was a competitor in the Next Iron Chef series. Gavin is available for hosting, corporate hospitality, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: Food Network, The Next Iron Chef

WHO REPRESENTS GAVIN KAYSEN: Celebrity Chef Gavin Kaysen 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 Gavin Kaysen for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or (833) 773-2577.

Gale Gand

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: Yes
Cookbook: Yes
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: Desserts and Pastry
Fee Range: $10,000 – $20,000

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Hire Gale Gand through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: food network, pbs

SHOWS: sweet dreams, baking with julia

CHARITIES: Gale Gand is a member of the National Restaurant Association’s “Conserve” Council which pushes the environmental movement on eating locally and using sustainable agriculture. Gale is involved in community causes such as Chicago’s Green City Market, Let’s Move, Art Smith’s foundation, Common Threads, and teaches baking lessons at her son’s middle school and her daughter’s preschool.

BIO: Celebrity Chef Chef Gale Gand is the executive pastry chef and partner of the four star Mobil, five-diamond AAA, Relais & Chateaux Relais-Gourmand restaurant Tru. In 2001, Gale was acknowledged as Outstanding Pastry Chef by The James Beard Foundation and Pastry Chef of the Year by Bon Appetite magazine, in 1994 was named Food and Wine’s Top Ten Best New Chefs. Gale studied at RIT and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts for American Craftsmen and attended culinary school at La Varenne in Paris. In 2006, Gale opened up a coffee shop called Gale’s Coffee Bar, also opening in the same year, Osteria di Tramonto, Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood and RT Lounge with Rick Tramonto. In Chicago, she opened up an upscale cupcake bakery.

Gale Gand was also the host of Food Network’s Sweet Dreams, which was Food Network’s first all-dessert show. She is the host of an online educational cooking series called, The Answered Chef. Gale’s current show, The Heirloom Recipe, airs on PBS. Gale has a long list of appearances including Martha Stewart, Oprah, Iron Chef America, the Today Show, Baking with Julia Child, and judged the Food Network’s Challenge and the 2008 season of Bravo’s Top Chef. Gale has seven cookbooks, her most recent, Gale Gand’s Brunch, which was released in spring of 2009. Gale also produces her own vanilla cream soda, and a root beer called Gale’s Root Beer with artisanal cinnamon, ginger and vanilla infused. At the USA House at the Beijing Olympics, Gale’s desserts were featured and Gale is an original member of the Macy’s Culinary Council.

Gale Gand is a member of the National Restaurant Association’s “Conserve” Council which pushes the environmental movement on eating locally and using sustainable agriculture. Gale is involved in community causes such as Chicago’s Green City Market, Art Smith’s foundation, Common Threads, and teaches baking lessons at her son’s middle school and her daughter’s preschool. Gale is an executive board member of the Chicago chapter of the AIWF, and a long time member of the James Beard Foundation and Les Dames D’Escoffier.

Gale talked to Celebrity Baby Scoop about getting kids involved with the baking/cooking process, simple ways to stay eco-friendly, and her role as a mentor in Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move initiative. Gale is a huge supporter of the Let’s Move project to help families become more active to live a happier and healthier lifestyle. Another supporter of Let’s Move is Dominique Dawes and NFL Quarterback Drew Brees.

Gale endorses Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Light Brown Sugar and can be hired for cooking demonstrations, public speaking and autograph signings.

APPEARANCES: Food Network, Sat May 21 NRA Show in Chicago,

ENDORSEMENTS: Wholesome Sweeteners Fair Trade Organic Light Brown Sugar, Nestles, Karo, Whirlpool, Hershey’s, Millstone Coffee, California Dried Plums, All Clad Cookware, Vita Prep Blender’s “Chefs Naked With Their Blender” campaign, The American Dairy Farmer’s Real Butter and Cheese campaigns, The American Dairy Association’s Milk Mustache campaign, Chefwear, Nordic Bakeware, Chefs for Humanity

BOOKS: Tramonto, Rick, and Gale Gand;, Gand, Gale, Rick Tramonto, and Julia Moski;, Gand, Gale and Julia Moski;, Gand, Gale and Julia Mosk;, Tramonto, Rick, Gale Gand, and Mary Goodbody; Gand, Gale and Lisa Weiss; Gand, Gale

WHO REPRESENTS GALE GAND: Celebrity Chef Gale Gand 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 Gale Gand for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or (833) 773-2577.

Frank Bonanno

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: No
Cookbook: Yes
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: Classical French
Fee Range: Under $10,000

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Hire Frank Bonanno through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

BIO: Celebrity Chef Frank Bonannofound his passion for cooking at an early age. Growing up in a Sicilian family, Bonanno can vividly remember how the aromas of his grandmother’s cooking filled his New Jersey home. When recounting his childhood, he also tells of how he and his mother would try out Julia Child recipes on the family in hopes recreating her culinary magic.

After graduating from the University of Denver with a degree in finance, Frank Bonanno determined that Wall Street was not for him. He decided to pursue his love of cooking and obtained a second degree from the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, NY. Not soon after, in 2001, Chef Bonanno returned to Denver to open up his first restaurant, Mizuna, and has not looked back since.

Chef Bonanno’s restaurants are regarded not only among the best restaurants in Denver, but in the entire United States. Zagat has recognized Bonanno restaurants Mizuna, Luca d’Italia, and Bones as part of their prestigious ranking of “America’s Top Restaurants.” Further exemplifying his culinary skill, Chef Frank Bonanno has opened three additional restaurants ranging in cuisine from French-casual, to American, to Asian.

Bonanno says he “is inspired by classic French techniques, but also by the simplicity of the type of food found in the best American restaurants.” Continuing with this them of simplicity in cooking, he believes in offering “clean flavors that enhance the freshest, finest ingredients.” Both of these statements perfectly sum up Bonanno’s cooking philosophy that the true “star” of his restaurants is the food.

Bonanno is an active blogger, social media participant and has appeared on multiple television networks. Most recently, he appeared at the Butte Wine & Food Festival held in July 20-24 in Denver, Colorado. Celebrity Chef Frank Bonanno is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: The Great Food Truck Race, No Reservations, CBS News, Food Network Challenge

WHO REPRESENTS FRANK BONANNO: Celebrity Chef Frank Bonanno 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 Frank Bonanno for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or (833) 773-2577.

Farmer Lee Jones

Does Virtual Events:
TV Show: Yes
Cookbook: No
Restaurant: Yes
Cuisine: Garden to Table
Fee Range: Under $10,000

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Hire Farmer Lee Jones through Celebrity Chef Network. Booking a celebrity chef requires an expert team. Let the booking agents at Celebrity Chef Network help you hire the best one for your brand or event. To contact Celebrity Chef Network, call (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

NETWORKS: CNN, ABC, Bravo, Food Network

SHOWS: The Martha Stewart Show, Food Network’s Roker on the Road, CNN Business Unusual, and ABC World News, Iron Chef America

BIO: Maybe best known to other chefs as the ‘guy in overalls and a red bowtie,’ Farmer Lee Jones leads the team at The Chef’s Garden to constantly excel beyond their own high standards of soaring quality and service, to deliver the finest vegetables direct from Earth to Table to the world’s greatest culinarians.

Farmer Lee Jones is in high demand for speaking engagements on sustainable farming and has been featured in many national publications. He was the first farmer judge on the Food Network’s TV show, Iron Chef America and now travels all over the United States speaking at seminars and culinary events like The International Chefs Congress and The James Beard Foundation Awards. A frequent speaker in panel discussions, Farmer Lee Jones would be a great addition to any conference. Farmer Lee has made appearances at The Women Chefs and restaurateurs National Conference and Chef Raymond Blanc’s American Food Revolution in Oxford.

Farmer Lee Jones is currently on the board of Chef Magazine and is available for speaking engagements, autograph signings, and team building events.

APPEARANCES: Bon Appétit, Cooking Light, Gourmet, Food & Wine, Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Inc. Magazine and The Washington Post, The Martha Stewart Show, Food Network’s Roker on the Road, CNN Business Unusual, and ABC World News, Iron Chef America

WHO REPRESENTS FARMER LEE JONES: Celebrity Chef Farmer Lee Jones 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 Farmer Lee Jones for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or (833) 773-2577.

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