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John Tesar

Restaurateur and Celebrity Chef John Tesar is well-known for putting his own personal flair on modern American cuisine with help from classic European techniques. His experience in the restaurant industry spans 20+ years and has seen John create and consult menus ranging from seafood fine dining to traditional American steakhouses. John currently owns and serves as executive chef at Spoon Bar & Kitchen, a fine dining seafood restaurant in Dallas, TX. He also owns and operates Knife, a modern concept that is reinventing the steakhouse experience. In 2015, John hosted a series of five consecutive dining experiences with five different celebrity chefs in a fundraising effort to benefit EAT (RED) DRINK (RED) SAVE LIVES, a nonprofit organization devoted to the research and treatment of HIV/AIDS.

Studying classical French training at La Varenne Ecole de Cuisine in Paris, Celebrity Chef John Tesar began his culinary career at Club Pierre in Westhampton. John would continue to cook in some of the finest kitchens in the country, cooking at restaurants such as 13 Barrow Street, Vine, and the Supper Club alongside Celebrity Chef Anthony Bourdain. Leaving New York to venture into other culinary projects, John headed to Las Vegas to join Celebrity Chef Rick Moonen at RM Seafood.

Celebrity Chef John Tesar would then head to Dallas where he would soon become one of the most influential culinary experts in all of Dallas fine dining. In 2007, John became the executive chef of the Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek. His innovative culinary style at the esteemed restaurant brought upon two five-star reviews as well as one of John’s two semi-finalist nominations for the James Beard Foundation’s “Best Chef Southwest” Award. John has also generously shared his culinary proficiency, helping mastermind menus all across Dallas restaurants such as The Cedars Social, The Commissary, Dallas Chop House, and Dallas Fish Market.

John’s prowess for American cuisine has earned him spots on cooking television shows Top Chef, Extreme Chef, and Cooking with Legends. In 2006, John emerged as the victorious chef on the inaugural season of Extreme Chef. His resilient personality and cutting-edge style has earned him praise in Food & Wine, Esquire, New York Magazine, and The New York Times.

Celebrity Chef John Tesar is a celebrated culinary artist who has succesfully transformed the food landscape in Texas.

Charlie Palmer

Restaurateur, author, entrepreneur and Celebrity Chef Speaker Charlie Palmer is one of the most prominent figures in the culinary industry today. He is known for what he calls Progressive American Cuisine and has established over 12 restaurants spread out across New York, Nevada, Washington, D.C. and California. In addition to his thriving restaurant business, top Celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer has furthered his experience in the hospitality industry opening 3 hotels in California. In May of 2015, he opened up both the Harvest Table (a full service restaurant), and the Harvest Inn (a boutique hotel) in St. Helena, California.

Celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer is a strong advocate for farm to table ingredients. While growing up in upstate New York, he gained an understanding and appreciation for naturally fresh, home-grown ingredients by tending to his family’s vegetable garden. Like many of today’s top celebrity chefs, Charlie completed his training at the American Culinary Institute. Upon graduating, he became the executive chef at the famous River Café in Brooklyn, NY. It was here where he perfected his craft and employed innovative ideas that would revolutionize the landscape of American Cuisine.

At 28, this celebrity chef speaker opened up a restaurant of his own called Aureole. The restaurant has since become a staple in the NYC foodsphere and has garnered a Michelin star every year since 2006. Charlie is also the author of five cookbooks: Remington Camp Cooking (2013), Charlie Palmer’s Practical Guide to the New American Kitchen (2006), The Art of Aureole (2002), Charlie Palmer’s Casual Cooking (2001) and Great American Food (1996).

Over time, Celebrity Chef Charlie Palmer has transformed from an aspiring chef to an impressive entrepreneur and member of the culinary world’s elite. His career serves as a model of success but the best is still yet to come for this revolutionary chef as he continues to explore new ways to redefine American Cuisine.

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Tia Mowry

Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry is no stranger to success as an actress and TV star, but she is a newcomer in the culinary world. Tia rose to fame as a teenager staring in the hit show Sister, Sister on ABC/WB with her identical twin sister Tamera Mowry. Following the show’s overwhelming success, Tia went on to star as medical student Melanie Barnett Davis on the popular BET series, The Game. Since 2013, Tia has starred as food blogger and full-time stepmom Stephanie Phillips in the Nickelodeon series Instant Mom. In 2015, Tia announced her own cooking show titled Tia Mowry at Home that airs on The Cooking Channel.

Her cooking show gives viewers a more personal look into the life of a full-time mom, actress and wife. Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry grew up in a military family that was constantly on the move, which allowed her to taste a variety of foods in different cities. She credits those influences for sparking her interest in cooking homemade meals for her family. She hopes to showcase meals that are healthy, delicious and easy for moms on-the-go because she knows first-hand how hard juggling a career and family can be.

In addition to her celebrated TV shows, Tia and sister Tamara starred in the Disney Channel original movie Twitches and the sequel Twitches Too. In 2011, Tia and Tamara began filming their new reality TV series Tia & Tamara which aired on the Style Network. The show followed the lives of the twins including Tia’s pregnancy and Tamara’s upcoming wedding to Fox News Correspondent Adam Housley.

Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry has also become one of our favorite celebrity moms in Hollywood. She wrote an exciting book about her first pregnancy titled Oh Baby!: Pregnancy tales and Advice from One Hot Mama to Another. The book detailed the trials, tribulations and triumphs of pregnancy for working mothers.

Celebrity Chef Tia Mowry is one of several well-known celebrity personalities including Haylie Duff and Tiffani Thiessen who have found a new TV home on the Cooking Channel.

Brian Duffy

His Irish roots have helped this Celebrity Chef Speaker find his calling in creating some of the world’s most delicious pub fare! Celebrity Chef Brian Duffy has revamped the gastropub scene with his tasty “New Celtic” cuisine. He has served as the executive chef in several establishments across the U.S. most notably at Kildare’s Irish Pub in his hometown of Philadelphia. His hands-on experience in the restaurant business has allowed him to become a top food consultant for bars, restaurants, pubs and nightclubs. He gives advice on menu revamps as well as style and restaurant décor. Celebrity Chef Brian makes regular celebrity chef appearances on Spike TV’s Bar Rescue also starring Jon Taffer and fellow celebrity chefs Tiffany Derry, Aaron McCargo, Jr. and Josh Capon.

Coming from a huge Irish-Italian family, food was very important to Brian from an early age. After refining his skills in culinary school, Brian went to work under Chef Jean Marie LaCroix at the famous Four Seasons Hotel in Philly. His entrepreneurial spirit was running wild as he began to build his own culinary creations. He partnered with a friend to open Kristopher’s and soon was hired by the Dave Magrogan Group to be their corporate executive chef for Doc Magrogan’s Oyster House, Harvest Season Grill and Kildare’s Irish Pubs. Later, Chef Brian got the change to partner with Seafood American where he developed his own line of frozen meals.

One of Brian’s first Celebrity Chef Appearances was on the Food Network’s Date Plate, where everyone enjoyed his sense of humor along with his wonderfully prepared food.

Brian has also made a celebrity chef appearance on many shows featured on networks such as the DIY Network, Food Network, HGTV, and Fine Living Network. Chef Brian has been called on as a celebrity guest judge on Food Network’s Beat Bobby Flay. Given his Irish roots, Brian is also an annual guest on The Today Show’s St. Patrick’s Day Irish cook-off.

Tiffani Thiessen

Celebrity Chef Speaker Tiffani Thiessen is an actress turned Celebrity Chef TV Host who is best known for her role as Kelly Kapowski on the classic teen sitcom Saved by the Bell. In 2014, the Cooking Channel announced Celebrity Chef Appearance by Tiffani would become the host of her own cooking show on the network called Dinner at Tiffani’s. Tiffani has always had a passion for cooking and knew that she eventually wanted to take her skills in the kitchen to the next level.

Tiffani won Miss Junior America and was named Cover Girl magazine’s Model of the Year in 1989 before taking what would become her career defining role as Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell. She and a few of her Saved by the Bell cast mates were reunited in a skit on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon in February of 2015. Following the success of the show, Tiffani was cast in a number of notable TV series including the teen drama Beverly Hills, 90210. It was in 2009 that Tiffani took on her memorable role as Elizabeth Burke in USA Network’s crime series White Collar. The show aired for 6 seasons and came to an end in December of 2014.

While filming White Collar, Tiffani made a Celebrity Chef Appearance as a judge on Food Network’s Cupcake Wars. The episode was themed “Birthday Bash” for Tiffani’s birthday.

Her exciting Cooking Channel series invites celebrities into her kitchen to her whip up a decadent dish. With guest appearances from her friends, family and past fellow cast members Mario Lopez and Elizabeth Berkley, Tiffani shares her tips on how to host intimate get-togethers with no stress. The first season aired at the beginning of 2014, with the second airing in early 2015. When Tiffani is not behind the scenes of her TV show, she’s teaming up with organizations such as Paleta: Farm to Table Meal Delivery, offering her fans deals on healthy foods and new lifestyles with the help of her culinary vision.

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