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Sonny Hurrell

The celebrity chef’s cooking journey began in Sonoma County, California at 16 years old. He worked his way through many kitchens focusing on very local and seasonal styles of cooking.

At 21 years old, Sonny decided to leave the world of cooking for a two-year intensive study of organic agriculture, studying at Emerson College in the UK. There, he also worked on many farms across Europe because it was important for him to see and understand where our food was coming from. Upon completing his studies, he returned to the busy pace of restaurant life working in the Netherlands at several fine dining restaurants.

Sonny returned to the US in 2014 for a saucier position at the Viceroy Hotel in Snowmass Village. Since then, Sonny has thrived full-time in private cooking and catering in Aspen.

Bringing his delicious recipes to social media, this TikTok Chef shares his Dinner Party Master tips and tricks to over 76% women in just two months. His endless spunk and creative messaging turns your everyday PB&J cook into a master chef dazzling in social media marketing campaigns or virtual chef events.

Would your organization like to hire Sonny Hurrell 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 Sonny Hurrell 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.

Alex Guarnaschelli

Executive chef at Butter and owner of the award winning restaurant, Darby, in NYC, Alex Guarnaschelli is a unique American chef. She is a Food Network star, winning Iron Chef in 2012 and serving as a judge for both Iron Chef and Chopped. In addition, Alex is pursuing success as a cookbook author and caterer for corporate and private events. With a worldwide following, Guarnaschelli is quickly growing her culinary empire and is a highly popular chef for hire.

Daughter of cookbook author Maria Guarnaschelli, Alex was influenced at an early age by a wide variety of flavors and cuisines. Knowing she wanted to pursue her love for food, Guarnaschelli pursued an internship with acclaimed American chef Larry Forgione immediately after college. After this, Alex left for France to study at La Varenne Culinary School in Burgundy. Finally, Guarnaschelli achieved success as sous chef at La Butte Chaillot. This would an an impressive ascension to success for any chef, but is an especially notable position for a woman.

Since then, Guarnaschelli has worked at several acclaimed restaurants including Patina in Los Angeles and now holds the position of executive chef at Butter in NYC. Here is where she claims to have really honed her unique cooking style. Butter’s menu displays Guarnaschelli’s passion for American cuisine and fresh seasonal ingredients. This same passion is what makes her restaurant Darby such a success. Likewise it what makes cookbooks, Old-School Comfort Food and The Home Cook, so popular.

Off the Food Network set, Guarnaschelli makes frequent television appearances. This includes visits to the Good Morning America Kitchen. Using her platform as a way to rep her favorite brands, she endorses Miele cooking appliances. Fabulous for live cooking demos, you are in for a treat when you hire Alex Guarnaschelli. Collaborating with culinary mastermind, Gilles Epié, Alex joins the American Airlines sponsored, Food Network and Cooking Channel SOBEWFF. This foodie event hosts over 60,000 guests and raises upwards of $28 million benefiting FIU. Similarly, she works with travel agency Zicasso to perform cooking demos on a nine-day food tour through Italy.

Would your organization like to hire Alex Guarnaschelli 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 Alex Guarnaschelli 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.

Katsuya Fukushima

Celebrity Chef Speaker Katsuya Fukushima is a math wiz who has used his college degree to shake up the culinary world through molecular gastronomy. His journey is a true inspiration and testimony of hard work and brains that not every ordinary chef has.

Katsuya was a double major in math and art but he knew while in college he was destined to chef. He enrolled at L’Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland and never looked back. Chef Katsuya worked several line cook jobs within the next few years; one being Cashion’s Eat Place under the guidance of Ann Cashion. Soon after his work for her he decided to fully devote himself to Jaleo, a tapas bar in Bethesda. After working at Jaleo for 3 years he assisted the esteemed owner and celebrity chef Jose Andres in opening Café Atlantico where Katsuya was offered the chef de cuisine position.

His experience as Jaleo’s chef de cuisine gave Katsuya a presumable amount of freedom in how he wanted to prepare the menu. Chef Katsuya then began to unlock the wonders of molecular gastronomy. The term refers to new and inventive way of using science to aid your cooking. Katsuya was even recognized by Bon Appetit magazine as being the “pioneer” of molecular gastronomy.

In 2010 Katsuya competed against Jose Garces on Iron Chef: America in the battle of Mahi Mahi; he won with ease. Since then Katsuya has made several appearances on cooking shows such as Meet the Chef, No Reservations, and Gourmet’s Diary of a Foodie. He recently opened his own restaurant in Washington. D.C. in 2013 named Daikaya. Daikaya features a highly personal and hand crafted menu that reflects all of Katsuya’s dreams and experiences.

When he is not in the kitchen, Katsuya enjoys volunteering at fundraisers and making appearances and speeches at local colleges. His two most noted appearances are at Alex’s Lemonade Stand and Autism Speaks. He also recently spoke with students at the College of William and Mary about hopes and aspirations and where they can take you if you work hard.

Jeff Mauro

Hire Jeff Mauro 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 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

Jeff Mauro was born and raised in Elmwood Park, Illinois just outside of Chicago. Living in Chicago for the last several years, Jeff became a big believer in the power of sandwiches. By combining ethnic ingredients with a variety of seasoning, he became one of the finest sandwich chefs in Chicago. After spending years in the Windy City, Jeff decided that we wanted to improve on his acting career as well as his cooking career and moved out to Los Angeles, where created a show known as “Chef Jeff & Ali”. When the program flopped, Jeff moved back to Chicago, where he finally found his fame.

In 2005, Jeff landed a spot on “The Next Food Network Star” which would help launch his cooking career and set him up for success. When he won that season, he became the host of the Food Network’s “Sandwich King”, which officially launched in 2011.

Today, you can find Jeff all over the Food Network. There he takes the talents that he became known for, making sandwiches, and shows that any meal can be made into a sandwich, and vice versa. You’ll find that a lot of the style that Jeff has in his cooking and making of masterpiece sandwiches goes right back to his roots in Chicago. Essentially, if any meal can be handheld, Jeff could find a way to classify it as a sandwich.

If you want to hire Jeff Mauro, you’ll be amazed at what he can do. For foodies, he has become a staple in the sandwich world, and has revolutionized how to make a tasty sandwich no matter how elegant or old your crowd is. Throughout his career, Jeff has never focused on any other food outside of sandwiches, so when you’re looking to stun your crowd with this kind of cooking, then Jeff Mauro is clearly you choice for your next celebrity appearance.

To hire Jeff Mauro for an endorsement, personal appearances, or book signing contact the experts at Celebrity Chef Network at booking@celebritychefnetwork.com or 212-410-9879.

Pat LaFrieda

Hire Pat LaFrieda 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 212-410-9879 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.

Patrick LaFrieda is a born and raised Brooklyn native. As a full-blooded Italian, whose great-great grandfather grew up in Italy working in a butcher shop, it was only by nature that Pat LaFrieda would come to own the butcher shop known as LaFrieda meats.

In the late 1980’s, Pat began to learn the trade from his father, Pat Jr, at the young age of 12 years old. Pat disregarded warnings from his father about the time and effort that would be required as a butcher shop owner. It was certainly no secret that Pat Junior knew the ins and outs, as his father and his father before him had all been in the butcher industry.

In 2010, Pat LaFrieda III decided that the business had outgrown the space they had in Brooklyn and they moved the meat shop to North Bergen, NJ. Additionally, the name of the business was changed from LaFrieda Meats to Pat LaFrieda and Sons Meat Purveyors, which was certainly a much more suited name for the company.

Today, LaFrieda and Sons Meat Purveyors provides high quality cuts of meat to thousands of restaurants, which serve more than 300,000 people on a daily basis. Pat’s ability to create special custom blends of meat has been desired by restaurants around the country, and the business utilizes dry-aging rooms within the 36,000 square-foot meat house to make sure that customers get the highest quality of meats available.

You can hire Patrick LaFrieda for your business or restaurant to provide you with some of the finest quality meat available on the market. Pat LaFrieda and Sons Meat Purveyors provide more than 75,000 hamburgers to customers in the area, and all are part of the hundreds of custom blends that Pat has learned to create through learning what previous generations have taught him.

Pat LaFrieda’s family has been in the business for 90 years now in the United States, and it’s expected that both him and his sons will continue the tradition that all started back in a little town of Italy. Pat LaFrieda and Sons Meat Purveyors are ready to take your order for the freshest cuts and finest meats available on the market today.

To hire Pat LaFrieda 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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