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Tara Ippolito Lafontant

Tara Ippolito Lafontant is a self taught home cook from New Jersey. Better known  as “T” across social media, she makes easy to follow recipes using familiar ingredients. T uses her Tik Tok, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube channels to share recipes and cooking tips for everyday people. Her motivation to share with her followers is simple. To inspire people to cook and become more comfortable in the kitchen. As a wife and busy mother of two little boys she she’s always cooking fast family friendly meals. Sharing her kitchen with others that want to learn is a true passion of hers. As her social media platforms continue to grow she is committed to delivering consistently delicious content to her followers.
 
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Andy LoRusso

Celebrity chef for hire Andy LoRusso made his big break with the timeless cookbook Sing & Cook Italian. From a large Sicilian family, Andy has spent his life surrounded by Italian cooking. Also a gifted musician, it only makes sense that Andy was destined to become “The Singing Chef”.

Andy began his career as a recording artist, producing jazzy tunes. This can be seen in The Singing Chef’s first record: Side A – The Great Magic of Love and Side B – Dancing Master. Later, Andy moved to California, studying great Italian composers under the tutelage of Giovanna d’Onofrio. Finally arriving upon the idea to combine his love of the Italian cooking and music, “The Singing Chef” was officially born.

Nowadays, Andy travels the world performing at various events. He is very popular at casinos, resorts, trade shows and conventions. Most popular is his Taste of Italy Show. Here, Andy offers a 90-minute performance and four course meal for guests, satisfying their hunger for both food and entertainment. For example, he has made appearances at the Unico Santa Barbara Key Note and the South Lake Tahoe Food & Wine Festival. In addition, Andy made a very memorable performance at Longtable Restaurant in Istanbul, Turkey. This was booked by Capa-Marka Entertainment Productions who oversees four exclusive restaurants in Istanbul. Andy also sang for over 50,000 guests at the prestigious Isle of Wight Festival. Joining him, Rock icons like Sting, The Police, and the Sex Pistols headlined the event. You might also see Andy making television appearances on The Food Network and numerous local morning TV features.

Andy has several new projects including his 25th Anniversary Edition, Sing & Cook with Andy LoRusso The Singing Chef. Best of all, this edition is accompanied by his “That’s Amore” CD, so you can enjoy Andy’s complete culinary production at home. He has also come up with a more modern CD release, Cooking Cabaret: An International Cooking Musical. Not only a soundtrack, this playlist will become a musical debuting in theaters all over the United States and Canada. Andy is also in the process of producing a TV pilot for a show that will dramatically reunite estranged families by inviting them to recreate original family recipes while singing and cooking together.

You can hire Andy LoRusso for Cooking demonstrations, endorsements, personal appearances, PR campaigns, speaking engagements, ect. Our booking agents are the best in the business for consulting companies, agencies and universities in finding fees, availability and interest for celebrity chefs like Andy LoRusso. Call Celebrity Chef Network at (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com.  Our booking agents are here to help you hire your Celebrity Chef now.

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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 (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

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Duskie Estes

Celebrity chef for hire Duskie Estes is a beloved Food Network personality who rose to fame as a contestant on Food Network’s Next Big Star season 3 and season 5. She is currently a judge on Guy’s Grocery Games. Based in Sonoma County, California, Duskie and her husband John own and operate ZAZU kitchen + farm which has garnered numerous awards as one of the top restaurants in the Bay Area. Duskie fully embraces the farm to table and snout-to-tail approach in the kitchen as she sources all produce and meats for her restaurant from her own farm and garden. Her cooking style is simple yet flavorful, allowing the ingredients to shine for what they are in each dish.

Duskie will tell you she first fell in love with cooking at the age of 5 using her trusty EZ-Bake Oven. As she grew older, she couldn’t get enough of the restaurant life and began working in restaurants around the U.S. including Palace Kitchen in Seattle. While at Palace, Duskie was named Seattle Best Chef by City Search in 2000 and Gourmet Magazine ranked the Palace as one of the top 5 restaurants in Seattle and one of the top 50 restaurants in the country. In 2001, she helped co-author the James Beard Award-winning cookbook Seattle Kitchen with chef Tom Douglas.

Later in 2001, Duskie and her husband decided it was time to open up their own culinary venture and developed the concept for ZAZU. Since the grand opening, ZAZU has offered guests a seasonal menu that is focused on locally sourced produce and a variety of different cuts of meats. Duskie’s snout-to-tail approach includes saving kitchen scraps to feed the farm animals. In 2009, Duskie and John were given the Rising Star Chefs Award for Sustainability. ZAZU has also been included in the San Francisco Michelin Guide every year since 2008.

When she is not in the garden or the kitchen, Duskie travels the country for celebrity chef appearances at local food & wine festivals, trade shows and other special events. Duskie is available for cooking demonstrations as well as celebrity chef speaking engagements in which she can share her thoughts on food sustainability, her own farm to table and snout-to-tail approach, and her experiences as a celebrity chef on TV and in her own award-winning restaurant.

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Ryan Scott

Restaurateur, TV host and celebrity chef for hire Ryan Scott rose to fame as a contestant on the fourth season of Bravo’s Top Chef cooking competition series and has since enjoyed quite a successful career in the culinary industry. Ryan is currently the host of his own radio cooking show on KGO 810 in the San Francisco Bay Area. Others may recognize him from his many celebrity chef appearances on top culinary shows such as The Rachael Ray Show, The Chew and The Talk on CBS. In 2016, his first cookbook titled One to Five from Time Books was chosen as a Top 20 Holiday Gift by Barnes & Noble.

Ryan attended the prestigious California Culinary Institute and then interned at Bistro Roxy in Reno, Nevada before setting sail for Hawaii and the island of Maui. Upon his return from the kitchens of Hawaii, Ryan worked under renowned chefs including Daniel Boulud and Charlie Trotter. In 2005, he joined the Myth Restaurant Group and helped open Myth Café, a crown jewel in the San Francisco foodie scene. Following his appearance on Top Chef, Ryan began working as a host of his own cooking TV shows on the Live Well Network called Food Rush and Home Chef Showdown. In 2014, he earned an Emmy Award for his work hosting Food Rush.

Away from the TV set, Ryan also owns and operates his own catering company, restaurants and food truck service called 3-Sum Eats. His restaurant Market & Rye was a major foodie hotspot in San Francisco before Ryan decided to shift focus to his newest successful restaurant Finn Town Tavern which opened in 2016. Ryan has also recently introduced his own line of housewares available on HSN in partnership with Epoca. His signature line includes environmentally-friendly cooking pots & pans, coffee makers and tea pots.

Would your organization like to hire Ryan Scott 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 Ryan Scott or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at (833) 773-2577 or email booking@celebritychefnetwork.com to speak with a celebrity chef agent to discuss top celebrity chefs available for your organization and event.

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