Nyesha Arrington

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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!

 

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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.

Would your organization like to hire Duskie Estes 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 Duskie Estes 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.

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.

Chloe Coscarelli

Celebrity Chef Speaker, restaurateur and bestselling cookbook author for hire Chloe Coscarelli is perhaps best recognized as the winner of Food Network’s baking competition TV series Cupcake Wars in 2010. She became the first vegan chef ever to win a culinary competition on TV and has since blossomed into a leading vegan voice in the culinary industry. Chloe has made a number of celebrity chef appearances on morning and daytime TV networks including NBC’s TODAY Show, The Doctors on CBS and programs on CNN. In July of 2015, she opened her first restaurant called by CHLOE in NYC’s West Village.

Chloe is a lifelong vegetarian who began to follow her passion for cooking and baking as a student at UC Berkeley. She held a summer internship position at Millennium, a gourmet vegan restaurant in San Francisco that sparked her interest in vegan fair and led to her enrollment at The Natural Gourmet Institute in New York City. Chloe also took courses at Cornell University, enrolling in their Plant-based Nutrition program.

Following her big win on Cupcake Wars, Chloe published 3 bestselling cookbooks titled Chloe’s Kitchen (2012), Chloe’s Vegan Desserts (2013) and Chloe’s Vegan Italian Kitchen (2014). Coupled with her latest restaurant venture, Chloe is at the forefront of bringing tasty vegan cuisine to mainstream dining.

Would your organization like to hire Chloe Coscarelli 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 Chloe Coscarelli 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.

Joy Bauer

Celebrity nutritionist and motivational speaker for hire Joy Bauer is perhaps best recognized as the featured nutrition & health expert on NBC’s TODAY Show. She has become a thought leader in all things nutrition and healthy living after authoring 12 NY Times bestselling books and founding her own healthy snack line, Nourish Snacks. In February of 2016, Joy released her latest book titled From Junk Food to Joy Food based on her TODAY Show series in which she is tasked with turning fattening favorites into delicious, diet-friendly fare.

Joy began her career as a health expert at Mount Sinai Medical Center, working as the director of nutrition & fitness for the department of pediatric cardiology. There she founded the Heart Smart Kids health program stressing the importance of understanding and addressing the health risks of children of all ages. She also worked for the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, supervising the center’s eating disorder and weight management research.

Joy is now a monthly columnist of Women’s Day magazine and the featured women’s health expert for About.com. Her website, joybauer.com, is an online hot spot for individuals looking for healthy recipes, weight loss programs and advice to living a healthier lifestyle. One of Joy’s favorite parts about the TODAY Show is the Joy Fit Club series which she started to help recognize men and women who have lost over 100 pounds by changing their diet and exercise routines.

Would your organization like to hire Joy Bauer 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 Joy Bauer 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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