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Steven Raichlen

Book Steven Raichlen for All your Speaking and Chef Events!

Celebrity Speaker Chef Steve Raichlen is an award winning celebrity chef, author and television personality. He is mostly widely known for his efforts in reinventing modern barbecue. Defeating the highly known Japanese Iron Chef, Rokusaburo Michiba, in the “Battle of the Barbecue Gods”, he offers an unbeatable experience when booking celebrity chefs for any accommodating event!

His career in cooking started with his interest in French literature. He then was led into a fellowship where he went to Europe to study middle ages and medieval cooking. In doing so, he trained at two prestigious cooking schools in Paris, La Varenne and Le Cordon Bleu.

Having a literature and culinary arts background, he excels in his creation when combining both topics. Most of Chef Raichlen’s cooking books have a common theme regarding global grilling and the culture surrounding it. In total, he has created and written 31 books, which include “How to Grill”, “BBQ USA”, Healthy Latin Cooking”, and “The Barbecue Bible”.

Aside from his own endeavors with writing, he has also written for “Food & Wine”, “The New York Times” and “National Geographic Traveler”. For two years, Steven Raichlen hosted the hit show “Primal Grill”. Where he gave tips, techniques and tutorials on how to cook on the grills of all sorts.

Chef Raichlen is famously known for his TV hosting and appearances, along with his creation of the hit TV show “Barbecue University”. This is also the name of an all inclusive three course meal that Raichlen founded in Colorado Springs which specializes in all things related to grill and barbecue university.

Throughout Chef Raichlen’s career, he has accomplished a great deal of restaurant and chef awards. He has created many cookbooks, which he won many awards for. Such as the James Beard award for the Best Vegetarian Cookbook in 1996, Best Light and Healthy Cookbook in 1993, and James Beard Foundation/KitchenAid Book Award in 2001.

One of his more recent accomplishments is being inducted into the Barbecue Hall of Fame in 2015. After four years of research and traveling 150,000 miles across five continents, he also won an IACP Julia Child Award from the Julia Child Foundation. All of these accomplishments and awards make hiring Steven Raichlen the best move you can make for your corporate events!

Don’t pass up on booking Steven Raichlen as your celebrity chef for all your corporate events by emailing booking@celebrityspeakersbureau.com

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Nyesha Arrington

Hire Nyesha Arrington for All of Your Needs!

Chef Nyesha J Arrington is an accomplished celebrity chef, speaker, entrepreneur, and restaurateur, who is commonly known for her advocacy of using locally sourced ingredients. She offers a unique and diverse experience for everyone who books her as a professional chef, or books her as a speaker.

Born in Southern California, she learned how to cook with her Korean grandmother at an early age. Chef Arrington was introduced to multiple diverse foods, such as bulgogi, octopus, and homemade kimchi to name a few. These cooking techniques shaped the way Chef Arrington developed her unique cooking ideas as a personal chef, including a style of being personal and exceptional.

Along with her attraction to the food world, she always had a deep interest in art. In doing so, she cooked with a deep understanding of global inspiration and the idea of “Every plate is like a canvas”.

Chef Arrington graduated from the Art Institute of California, located in Los Angeles. Famous Chef Josiah Citrin, owner of the two Michelin Star Mélisse restaurants, took her under his wing and became her mentor. This became a pivotal point in her fine dining career. Citrin made her a saucier at Mélisse then led her to help with the opening of two of his successful restaurants in Santa Monica.

After working with Citrin, Chef Arrington expanded to work with the incredible French Chef Joël Robuchon at his Mobil award winning and Michelin starred restaurant in Las Vegas. 

In 2011-2013, Chef Arrington was the Executive Chef at Wilshire restaurant, where restaurant critic Brad Johnson named her the Rising Star. Since then, she has been featured in numerous cooking shows including winning the competition on the Food Network’s series “Chef Hunter” and “Knife Fight” on Esquire Network. She was also a contestant on “Top Chef” and then returned back on “Knife Fight” to be a Guest Chef Judge.

Aside from her outstanding television history, she was included in Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold’s iconic list of 101 Best Restaurants for both of her dining concepts. Arrington was also a headliner in Austin for the Food and Wine Festival, featured on multiple covers of Delta Sky Magazine and Rachael Ray Everyday. As well as being mentioned in Food & Wine, GQ, Essence, and Bon Appétit.

More recently, Chef Arrington is now a star in Gordon Ramsey’s wildly successful and highly rated hit TV show “Next Level Chef”, which is a cooking competition that airs on FOX. This series is Gordon Ramsey’s biggest and most intense show yet.

Chef Arrington got the position of being one of the mentors alongside Gordon Ramsey and Richard Blais. In the show, she tries to recruit the best chefs in the industry and take them under her wing. The contestants compete against each other to become the next high-level megastar in the food world with the help of Chef Arrington!

 

Don’t pass up on booking Nyesha Arrington by emailing booking@celebritychefnetwork.com 

 

Erik Lorincz

Erik’s passion for mixology began when he discovered a bartending book by Roman Uhlir. Newly graduated from Hospitality School in his native Slovakia and greatly inspired by what he read, he set out to learn everything he could about the craft. His studies lead him to a three- month intensive bartending program in Prague run by Roman Uhlir himself, who would become his first mentor.
As a newly qualified bartender, he moved back to Slovakia to join the team at the first cocktail bar in the capital, Bratislava. Greenwich Cocktail Bar fast became the hottest spot in the town. It was here that Erik spent three years honing his skills and cultivating his own cocktail culture.
In January 2004, Erik decided to move to London to improve his English and learn more about his craft. His first job was as a glass collector at The Attica Club, an infamous celebrity hang out. After intensive English lessons during the day and working during the evenings, he landed his first promotion to

head barback, followed by bartender and eventually head bartender.
His passion for Japanese culture and his unquenchable thirst for knowledge of mixology, led him to accepting an offer to bartend at Nozomi, a Japanese restaurant in the heart of Knightsbridge.
Fuelled by his craving to discover more, Erik took an impromptu trip to Japan.
Whilst cruising around the bars in Ginza, he fell in love with Japanese bartending and vowed to pursue the style further. In March 2017 Erik collaborated with a Slovakian entrepreneur and bar operator, Karol Szasz, to and open quintessentially quaint bar in the heart of the old town Bratislava which pays homage to the art-deco cocktail culture (Antique American Bar).
In the years that followed, he would go on to earn many awards and accolades, including World-Class Bartender of the Year, Conde Nast Bartender of the Year and one of the ‘100 Best Things in London’ according to GQ, and was voted as one of London’s 1000 Most Influential People by the Evening Standard.
Lorincz became the head bartender at The Savoy’s American Bar in 2010. Shortly after at the Tales of the Cocktail 2011 in New Orleans, The American Bar was named the World’s Best Hotel Bar and Erik as International Bartender of the Year. In 2017 The American Bar reached the No.1 ranking on Worlds 50 best bars. Drinks Magazine Asia voted Erik Lorincz as International bartender of the year 2018. In May 2018 Erik announced his departure from The American bar and year later in May 2019 he opened his latest venue in the heart of central London, Kwānt bar London. Bar within few months of opening entered to the 50 Worlds Best bar list ranking 47. Class Magazine voted Kwānt as the Best New Opening 2020.

Ilana Muhlstein

Ilana Muhlstein, M.S., R.D.N. is one of the most sought-after weight-loss experts in the world. She has a thriving private practice in Beverly Hills, is an acclaimed public speaker and influencer, published author, and sits on the prestigious Executive Leadership Team for the American Heart Association. Ilana has been lecturing for the Bruin Health Improvement Program at UCLA since 2013 and is a contributing writer for distinguished publications including The Journal of Obesity, and has been featured in the LA Times, The Washington Post, Reader’s Digest, SHAPE, Health and Women’s Health. Ilana lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband Noah and two children, Olivia and Julian.

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