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Rosanna Pansino

Celebrity Chef Rosanna Pansino is an up-and-coming baking sensation who has built quite the career in the culinary industry through her popular YouTube channel boasting over 4.8 million followers and counting. Every Tuesday, Rosanna posts a new episode of her online show called Nerdy Nummies in addition to other fun, interactive videos that showcase her baking skills. From brownie rubik’s cubes to Star Wars lightsaber-inspired popsicles, her cute, creative baked goods are truly one-of-a-kind! Rosanna’s first cookbook titled Nerdy Nummies set to release in the fall of 2015. A woman of many talents, Rosanna released her first official single in February of 2015 titled Perfect Together.

Before her days as a culinary star, Celebrity Chef Rosanna Pansino was an aspiring actress. She landed a few small roles in major TV series including Fox’s Glee and NBC’s Parks and Recreation. In 2013, Rosanna leant her voice to the YouTube animated series Broken Quest. That same year, she recorded 3 of YouTube’s most viral food videos of the year. As her YouTube channel began to gain popularity, Rosanna was one of the first YouTube stars to advertise her channel in print and TV ad campaigns. Her channel now averages over 75 million views a month.

Celebrity Chef Rosanna Pansino has been featured in several notable publications including Food & Wine magazine, Cosmo magazine, AdWeek and Business Insider. Variety magazine named her one of the top 12 stars of the digital world, as part of their July 2015 Famechangers issue. As she continues to grow her career in entertainment and the culinary arts, Rosanna hopes to branch out from baked goods to also begin incorporating her favorite family recipes into her shows.

Celebrity Chef Rosanna Pansino is available for a variety of celebrity chef appearances including meet and greets, cooking demonstrations, marketing campaigns and more.

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.

Contact Celebrity Chef Network today to hire Celebrity Chef Speaker Sean Brock for an upcoming cooking demo or celebrity chef appearance.

Kristin Sollenne

Celebrity Chef Kristin Sollenne is a New York-based Food Network judge, TV personality and nutritionist who continues to perfect the art of healthy Italian cuisine. Kristin embraces a healthy, nutritious approach to Italian food that places importance on farm-to-table and clean ingredients. In 2013, Celebrity Chef Kristin Sollenne was honored as one of Zagat’s Top 30 under 30. The annual list honors the top celebrity chefs, bartenders and innovative culinary minds. Kristin is also well-known for her chic style in the kitchen and has developed her own line of couture kitchen aprons.

Kristin currently works with the New York City Restaurant Group (NYCRG) to oversee 4 Bocca di Bacco locations in NYC. At Bocca di Bacco, her menu contains healthy Italian cuisine centered around farm fresh vegetables, whole grains and lean proteins. She has been working with the NYCRG since 2008. In the past, Kristin has cooked for a number of celebrities including pop star Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran and Seth Rogan.

In 2015, Celebrity Chef Kristin Sollenne released her first cookbook titled Domestic Chic: A Fashionably Fabulous Guide for Cooking & Entertaining By The Seasons. In it she shared favorite recipes and kitchen stories to inspire readers to entertain with a new sense of passion and flair! Kristin has gained notoriety in the industry after becoming a featured Celebrity Chef judge on several Food Network cooking shows including Beat Bobby Flay and Bill Rancic’s Kitchen Casino. Kristin has already been chosen as a Celebrity Chef judge for the season finale of Worst Cooks in America in 2016. She also makes regular celebrity chef appearances on daily talk shows and news programs including NBC’s Today show and Fox Business.

Your business or organization can hire Celebrity Chef Kristin Sollenne for cooking demonstrations, celebrity chef speaking engagements and other celebrity chef appearances.

Cheryl Forberg

Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg is a trusted nutritionist and James Beard Award-winning chef who is best recognized as the head nutritionist on NBC’s hit weight loss competition series The Biggest Loser since 2004. On the show, Cheryl helps teach the contestants about the importance of a healthy diet and shares her own cooking and nutrition tips to help the contestants maintain a healthy lifestyle long after their time on the show has ended. She has also been the lead author and/or co-wrote all of the New York Times bestselling Biggest Loser diet and exercise books. In August of 2015, American Pistachio Growers (APG) hired Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg as a new brand ambassador to educate consumers on the benefits of pistachios as a healthy snack.

After graduating from the California Culinary Academy, Cheryl worked abroad in France before returning to California to help open Celebrity Chef Wolfgang Puck’s restaurant Postrio in San Francisco. After several years spent in commercial kitchens, Cheryl began working as a private chef for Star Wars director George Lucas and his family. During this time she went back to school to dig deeper into the world of nutrition and proper dieting. She graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in Nutrition and Clinical Dietetics and certification as a registered dietician.

Before finding her way onto the set of The Biggest Loser, Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg worked as a research dietician at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. She also helped with recipe development for the UCLA Department of Clinical Nutrition. Cheryl has dedicated her life to better understanding the scientific facts behind properly engineered diets. In addition to The Biggest Loser book series, Cheryl co-athuored the James-Beard Award-winning New Mayo Clinic Cookbook released in 2005. She is now a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and the Washington Post.

Celebrity Chef Cheryl Forberg is available for a variety of Celebrity Chef appearances including Celebrity Chef speaking engagements and cooking demonstrations.

Michael Chernow

Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow is a celebrated member of the culinary community. Michael learned the ins and outs of the restaurant business growing up as a bartender in New York City and Los Angeles. His debonair style is now a signature element in the creation and development of his own restaurants, The Meatball Shop, which he co-owns with his friend Daniel Holzman, and Seamore’s seafood restaurant. Michael opened Seamore’s in the summer of 2015 while the Meatball Shop has now expanded to 6 locations in NYC since its inception in 2010. In August of 2015, Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow was one of several Celebrity Chefs including Amanda Freitag hired to headline the Champions of the Course VIP event hosted by Bon Apetit magazine. He is now the host of Food Porn airing on FYI Network. The show is partly inspired by the Instagram hashtag #foodporn that has populated over 50 million posts to date using the hashtag.

Celebrity Chef Speaker Michael took a little different path to superstardom than most celebrity chef speakers in the industry. He grew up under the lights of the exciting NYC nightlife. His first bartending gig was at the popular nightclub Life as well as its sister club The Tavern in East Hampton. Michael spent 2 years at these fine establishments before jumping on board to help open Woo Lae Oak’s at its former location on Mercer Street. It was in 2001 that Celebrity Chef Speaker Michael Chernow hit the west coast chasing a new culinary adventure at Woo Lae Oak’s original location in West Hollywood. A year later he returned to New York to work under Frank Prizanzano at his signature restaurant Frank. It was here that Michael truly began to understand what it would take to open a successful restaurant on his own.

After 7 years at Frank, Michael decided to enroll at the French Culinary Institute. He graduated in 2008 with a degree in the culinary arts and restaurant management and the rest is history! Michael’s first successful venture, The Meatball Shop, spawned a signature cookbook that was released in 2011. He has been involved in promotional material for several well-known brands including Coach, Equinox and Chase Ink. He is also a regular in GQ magazine, offering his style tips and tricks for the changing seasons.

In early 2016, Celebrity Chef Chernow launched his own juice brand, WellWell Juice. He has collaborated with Sagan Schultz, Collin Hughes and Larry Prauger to develop this new brand. On top of devoting time to grow his own brand Michael Chernow also does work with Lululemon’s men’s brand.

Would your organization like to hire a chef 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 Celebrity Chef Michael Chernow or are interested in exploring other celebrity chefs please call Celebrity Chef Network at 212-410-9870 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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