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Adam Perry Lang

Celebrity Chef Adam Perry Lang is a New York City-based chef specializing in mouthwatering barbecue cuisine. After an early career spent learning classical French techniques, Adam followed his heart to become one of the most respected BBQ chefs in the United States. He has made Celebrity Chef appearances on a variety of news programs and talk shows including Good Morning America, The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show and Fox & Friends.

Adam graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and worked at several notable establishments in his early career including revered Celebrity Chef Daniel Boulud’s Le Cirque and Daniel located in NYC. He also spent some time in France working at Restaurant Guy Savoy. By this time Adam had mastered the art of classic French techniques, but his heart was full of smoke. Barbeque smoke that is.

The food scene in New York City lacked a really great rib shack and Celebrity Chef Adam Perry Lang decided to fill the void with his own BBQ hotspot. Daisy May’s BBQ started with a few food carts strategically placed around the city and has grown into a flagship location in Midtown Manhattan. But in the barbecue world, you earn your stripes at annual competitions. In his first year on the competition circuit, Adam cooked his way to Grand Champion honors at the World Pork Expo and won 1^st place for his delectable pork shoulder at The World Series of BBQ in Kansas City. Adam has also taken his barbecue methods global, opening up Barbecoa with fellow celebrity chef Jamie Oliver in London.

In 2009, Celebrity Chef Adam Perry Lang released his first cookbook titled Serious Barbecue: Smoke, Char, Baste and Brush Your Way to Great Outdoor Cooking. The book provided backyard chefs with his secrets to spicing up any backyard BBQ. He has since published 2 more books titled Charred and Scruffed: Bold New Techniques for Explosive Flavor On and Off the Grill and BBQ 25: The World’s Most Flavorful Recipes-Now Made Fool-Proof.

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Jonathon Sawyer

Celebrity Chef Jonathon Sawyer is a crafty culinary personality based in Cleveland, Ohio. Jonathon owns and operates 4 foodie hotspots in the city and is also credited with opening the first pop-up restaurant group in Cleveland called Brick & Mortar Pop-Ups. In January of 2015, Jonathon released his first cookbook titled Noodle Kids: Around the World in 50 Fun, Healthy, Creative Recipes the Whole Family Can Cook Together. Just a few months later, he earned the title of 2015 Best Chef Great Lakes from the James Beard Foundation after being nominated for the award every year since 2012.

Jonathon attended the Pennsylvania Institute of Culinary Arts. Upon graduation, he worked at The Biltmore Hotel in Miami before earning a position at Charlie Palmer’s Kitchen 22 in NYC. He would later link up with his friend and mentor Michael Symon to work as the executive chef at Symon’s restaurant Parea. But Jonathon had dreams of opening his own restaurant and moved back to his hometown of Cleveland to bring his vision to life.

Since then, Celebrity Chef Jonathon Sawyer has helped revive the culinary scene in Cleveland with 4 highly-touted eateries including popular gastropub The Greenhouse Tavern, Noodlecat, Bar Cento and Trentina. Perhaps his most exciting ventures have been Sawyer’s Street Frites at the Cleveland Brown’s First Energy Stadium and SeeSaw Pretzel Shoppe at the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Quicken Loans Arena.

Jonathon has since become a national culinary star and has appeared on several cooking competition series including Iron Chef America, Unique Eats and Dinner Impossible. In 2010, he received Food & Wine Magazine’s Best New Chef Award.

Celebrity Chef Jonathon Sawyer is a big supporter of local ingredients and sustainable businesses. In 2011, Jonathon created the Tavern Vinegar Company. He ferments over 300 gallons of his own barrel-aged wine, beer and vinegars for his restaurants and individual sale.

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Justin Warner

Celebrity Chef Justin Warner knows no boundaries in the kitchen. In his world, the laws of cooking were meant to be broken! He is best recognized as the season 8 winner of Food Network Star. Since his big win, Chef Justin has carved his own lane in the culinary industry with his exciting, unconventional cooking style. In October of 2015, Chef Justin released his first cookbook titled The Laws of Cooking: And How to Break Them. The book introduces readers to a new way of thinking in the kitchen to create inventive and exciting recipes using familiar flavor combinations.

Celebrity Chef Justin Warner got his first taste of TV cooking competitions as a contestant on Food Network’s 24 Hour Restaurant Battle in 2010. 2 years later he won the right to his own Food Network series on Food Network Star under the tutelage of Celebrity Chef Alton Brown. Chef Justin’s Food Network show Rebel Eats debuted in 2013. In the fall of 2014, Celebrity Chef Justin Warner was 1 of 16 Celebrity Chefs chosen to compete on Cutthroat Kitchen Superstar Sabotage.

Chef Justin is completely self-taught, which accounts for his inquisitive nature when it comes to traditional recipes and cooking methods. He first started working in restaurants when he was 15 years old. He learned all he could about food, wine and fine dining and eventually opened his own restaurant called Do or Dine in New York. In May of 2015, he launched his own web series with Food Network called Foodie Call with Justin Warner. The exciting video series follows Chef Justin as he travels across the country to meet famous culinary personalities on the forefront of the latest food trends.

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Sue Zemanick

Celebrity Chef Sue Zemanick is a top culinary talent based in Louisiana. She is currently the executive chef of Gautreau’s Restaurant located in uptown New Orleans. She also oversees the food for Ivy, a private event space also located in the heart of uptown. In 2014, Chef Sue received the James Beard Award for Best Chef South, earning her a new title as one of the best Celebrity Chefs in the country. In October of 2015, she was named a featured judge for season 3 of Esquire Network’s hit cooking competition series Knife Fight.

Chef Sue attended the Culinary Institute of America and worked as a chef-instructor for the school’s seafood program after graduation. In 2003, Sue wanted to put her years of practice to use and moved to New Orleans. She got her start in the kitchen at the local favorite Commander’s Place before joining the staff at Gautreau’s. It didn’t take long for the culinary world to take notice of her impressive skills in the kitchen. In 2008, Celebrity Chef Sue Zemanick was named one of the Top 10 Best New Chefs by Food & Wine magazine. She was also nominated as a James Beard Award finalist for Rising Star Chef every year from 2009-2012.

As she continued to build her career in the industry, Chef Sue has made a number of celebrity chef appearances on several cooking competition series including Bravo’s Top Chef Masters season 3 in 2011 and returning for season 5 in 2013. That same year she also appeared as a guest judge on Top Chef New Orleans. When it comes to the best eats in the south, Chef Sue’s modern American cuisine has helped to shape the culinary landscape of New Orleans as we know it.

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Sean Brock

Nobody does tasty southern classics quite like Celebrity Chef Speaker Sean Brock! Sean plants his culinary roots in the garden where he learned the importance of growing and preserving your own ingredients growing up with his family in rural Virginia. Today he owns and operates Husk, a popular restaurant specializing in southern style cuisine with locations in Charleston, South Carolina and Nashville, Tennessee. Sean has built his own 2.5 acre farm on Wadmalaw Island in South Carolina where he grows all his ingredients and has even began raising his own livestock. As an ode to deeply rooted southern food traditions, Sean has taken it upon himself to help preserve and restore heirloom ingredients such as flint corn, benne seed and rice peas.

Celebrity Chef Sean first burst onto the culinary scene in 2008 when he was nominated for the James Beard Award for Rising Star Chef. 2 years later he took home the James Beard Award for Best Chef Southeast. He has since been chosen a finalist for James Beard’s Outstanding Chef award every year since 2013. Sean now co-owns and operates 4 restaurants including the 2 Husk locations, McCrady’s Restaurant and Minero both located in Charleston.

Sean has made celebrity chef appearances on several major culinary TV series. In 2010, he competed against Celebrity Chef Michael Symon in an episode of Food Network’s Iron Chef America and was the host of season 2 of Anthony Bourdain’s PBS series The Mind of a Chef. Celebrity Chef Speaker Sean Brock was a huge hit and was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Culinary Host.

In October of 2014, Celebrity Chef Speaker Sean Brock detailed his ideas on food and cooking in a New York Times bestselling cookbook titled Heritage. The book earned Sean a 2015 James Beard Award in the American Cooking genre. He is currently working on his second cookbook, Husk, which will focus on recipes from Sean’s flagship restaurant.

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