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Dave Eckert

Celebrity speaker Dave Eckert brings more than 25 years of experience in broadcasting, food and dining reporting, and a passion for food and wine to the table in his Emmy award winning show Culinary Travels with Dave Eckert.  Before he landed the hit show, which airs across 160 Public Broadcasting affiliates across the country, he worked as a reporter covering news, sports, and weather before he found his niche in food when he was hired by Chicago superstation WGN-TV to help produce, report, and edit “What’s Cookin’ Chicago.” During his tenure with What’s Cookin’ Chicago, Eckert developed an incredible knowledge for food, and got to meet some of the world’s most talented chefs including Julia Child. This local foodie show in Chicago drove Dave to create his own show Culinary Travels with Dave Eckert. The 30-minute weekly television program features Dave traveling the globe to regions renowned for their amazing dining, wine production and agricultural products.  Dave has built quite the following with the show, and has been recognized twice by the Academy of Wine Communications for his work. In addition to his television work, Eckert has become known as one the world’s most prominent food, wine, and spirits connoisseurs.  The dining expert has a collection of about 3,000 bottles of wine and spirits in his home cellar, with many bottles coming from regions the Culinary Travels host has visited for his show, such as Italy, France, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Scotland, Mexico, and Kentucky. Additionally, Dave Eckert enjoys cooking and pairing wine with tasteful cuisine, and can be found teaching cooking and wine classes at the Culinary Center of Kansas City. He also writes a regular column for the nationally distributed Kansas City Bullsheet, and is a frequent contributor to the James Beard award wining Food section of the Kansas City Star newspaper.

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Dhani Jones

Dhani Jones is one of the latest celebrities to crossover from the athletic playing field to a celebrity personality.  Dhani has made the rare transition from the ‘athletic jock’ persona, to the cultured travel guide who’s been the host of his own television show.  Dhani’s appeal is unique in the culinary and travel lens, because he attracts a whole new market of viewers who identify with him because of his high profile as an athlete.

Celebrity Chef and Speaker Dhani Jones’ first claim to fame came as a linebacker in the National Football League.  He played 10 seasons in the league for 3 different teams before deciding to focus his efforts towards a career as a television personality.  At the end of his playing career, Dhani was chosen to host his own show on the Travel Channel called Dhani Tackles the Globe.  The show featured Dhani traveling to foreign countries all over the world to learn local sport and cultural traditions.  The show was a commercial successful and was brought back for a second season on the Travel Channel.  Dhani also briefly hosted a show on VH1 called of Ton of Cash that only lasted a single season. Aside from his work on television Dhani has also ventured off to establish a creative agency called VMG Creative, and opened a restaurant called Bow Tie Café.  Additionally, Dhani is a former contributor to the Page2 section of ESPN.com where he provided commentary pieces.  He also did a 7-part series for Men’s Journal called “Spirited Escapes” where he traveled the world and shared his personal experiences about culture and life.

In terms of philanthropy, Dhani has been a presence in a number of organizations.  Through his own charity, The BowTie Foundation, the primary objective is to enhance the personal development of underprivileged youths in the Cincinnati area.

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Rachel Allen

Celebrity Chef speaker Rachel Allen is one of the most well known chefs in Ireland, the United Kingdom, and in the world.  She began her journey to become a professional chef at the age of 18 when she began studying at Ireland’s prestigious Ballymaloe Cookery School.  Upon graduating, the young chef began working at the Ballymaloe House Hotel before returning to her alma mater to test recipes and teach classes. Chef Allen’s work became known throughout the country and soon enough, she found herself with a television series. In September 2004 Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), the national public service broadcaster of Ireland, launched Rachel’s first series called Rachel’s Favourite Food. The show was also broadcast in Australia, Canada, and Italy making Rachel Allen’s name internationally known.  Chef Allen also wrote a book, Rachel’s Favourite Food, to accompany the series. As a result of the success of her first show and book, Rachel launched two more series and books called Rachel’s Favourite Food for Friends, and Rachel’s Favourite Food At Home. The Latter became Rachel’s first show to be broadcast in the United States in 2010.  Chef Allen can also be seen in popular foodie shows such as BBC’s Saturday Kitchen, Good Food Channel Market Kitchen, and Rachel Allen: Bake! She officially earned the title of Doctor Rachel Allen after receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Science from the University of Ulster at Belfast’s Waterfront Hall for all of her accomplishments and contributions to the culinary arts.

This talented chef is accomplished in more than just cooking.  Rachel is a seasoned writer. She has written for many major Irish publications including the Irish lifestyle magazine Image, as well as a weekly column in the Sunday Tribune magazine.  She also frequently contributes to BBC Good Food magazine and AWT At Home magazine. Additionally she designs her own line of products for Tipperary Crystal. Outside of the kitchen, she lives in County Cork in Ireland with her husband Isaac Allen, son of celebrity chef Darina Allen, and their three children.

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Jeff Henderson

Celebrity chef for hire Jeff Henderson is one of the most inspirational celebrity chefs in the industry. His story of incarceration, redemption and culinary success teaches audiences valuable life lessons in self-belief, education and the power of change.

For Chef Jeff Henderson, befriending fellow inmate Friendly Womack while in jail marked the beginning of his culinary journey towards celebrity chef prestige. During Henderson’s 10-year incarceration, Womack mentored him in the prison kitchen until his release in 1996. After being released, Henderson moved to Las Vegas to pursue his newfound passion for cooking, and without any professional training became the first African American Chef de Cuisine at Caesar’s Palace in 2001.

As Henderson gained more experience in the industry, he worked at several elite restaurants in the Las Vegas area, including Café Bellagio until the year 2006. The following year, Henderson decided to share his incredible story with the public in his New York Times bestselling book Cooked: My Journey From the Streets to the Stove. The book was so successful that it is to be made into a movie by Will Smith’s production company Overbrook Entertainment, in collaboration with Escape Artists and Columbia Pictures. In addition to his autobiography, Henderson has also released two cookbooks entitled Chef Jeff Cooks: In the Kitchen with America’s Inspirational New Culinary Star in 2008, and America I AM Pass It Down Cookbook in 2011.

Inclined to help others after his own turnaround, Henderson created a 2008 Food Network television series entitled The Chef Jeff Project to assist others in need of an opportunity for a better life. The series followed six young adults with turbulent backgrounds as they worked with Henderson for a month, granting each individual a Food Network Scholarship to culinary school if they remained with Henderson for the duration of the program.

In 2013, Henderson created the show Family Style with Chef Jeff which focuses on the importance of healthy cooking as well as the numerous benefits a nutritious menu can have for the entire family. He has also made appearances on shows such as The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America to share his moving story with the public and inspire others towards positive change through education and innovation.

Henderson is available for a variety of celebrity chef appearances and celebrity chef speaking engagements including corporate conferences, trade shows, business event and special celebrations such as Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration which he headlined in January of 2017.

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Valerie Bertinelli

Valerie Bertinelli is an actress and TV personality best known for her role in the hit CBS sitcom One Day at a Time. The actress has starred in over 30 TV shows and movies including the series Café America, Touched by an Angel, and her newest TV series on TV Land called Hot in Cleveland. Aside from her success in acting, Valerie has become a bestselling author and created her own line of self-titled cookware which features utensils, dishes and other kitchen ware. In 2014, Valerie combined her love for the TV set and cooking and was chosen to host her own cooking show on Food Network titled The Valerie Bertinelli Project. The show features Valerie and her husband preparing family recipes for their friends, family, and celebrity neighbors. Valerie has always loved cooking and was a longtime fan of the TV show Iron Chef before she was invited by host and long time friend Alton Brown to be a judge for the Battle of Oktoberfest in 2013.

While off the movie and TV set, she has worked with JC Penney and Jenny Craig as a spokesperson and brand ambassador in print and TV advertisement campaigns. Her work with Jenny Craig included helping lead the annual American Heart Association’s Wall Street Heart Walk in support of healthy living and weight loss. While encouraging many people across the country to live a healthier lifestyle, the walk also recognizes 30 Jenny Craig clients who recently reached their weight loss goals.

Valerie has published 2 New York Times Bestselling books, first her auto-biography titled Losing It which detailed her life as a teen star and living on the road with first husband Eddie Van Halen of the legendary rock band of his namesake. The following memoir titled Finding It gave the public a look into her new life as a single mother and trying to maintain her weight and finding faith in a higher power.

She has also recorded her family recipes in a cookbook titled One Dish at a Time which also released as an e-book with video commentary. To Valerie, cooking is about family time. Spending time with each other and helping to prepare the dish is how she was raised and believes family meals should always be prepared in this way.

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