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Top 10 Trending Chefs May 15 2014

Bobby Flay: When you’re working in an industry where everyone is growing up trying to be the next you, you might have the tendency to sit back and enjoy the view. Superchef Bobby Flay on the other hand refuses to slow down and that type of drive is what has made him and other industry leaders such as Emeril Lagasse, Gordon Ramsay and Guy Fieri such successful celebrity chefs and food personalities. Bobby’s latest endeavors will be 2 new Food Network series titled Bobby’s Grilling Guide and Bobby Flay Fit. Now while you can obviously tell where he’s going with the first show, Bobby Flay Fit will introduce a new type of series to the network as he shares his workout and food tips that have helped him stay fit in a world full of delectable eats.

Valerie Bertinelli: America is familiar with the lovable Valerie Bertinelli from her previous acting spots in primetime sitcoms or from her bestselling memoirs and published cookbook of family recipes. Valerie’s latest dish will be served on TV as the actress and food personality is set to combine her life’s passions into one in the form of a new show on the Food Network titled The Valerie Bertinelli Project. The highly anticipated show will center around the former Jenny Craig spokesperson and her husband who will be sharing family recipes with friends and celebrity neighbors.

Daniel Boulud: The bubbly flowed a little heavier in Las Vegas this weekend as over 35 of the culinary world’s best chefs descended on Sin City for the 8^th Annual Vegas Uncork’d Event hosted by Bon Appétit magazine. Known as one of the year’s most anticipated foodie events, what an honor it was for esteemed chef Daniel Boulud who ceremoniously uncork’d the first bottle of the weekend after his new Vegas restaurant and its dishes have wowed tourists at the new location in the Venetian. I’d say the celebrity chef is settling in quite well in his new digs at the famed Vegas resort and food mecca.

Candice Kumai: As a contributing editor for Shape and Men’s Fitness magazine and the author of 2 fit cookbooks, Candice has been responsible for teaching and inspiring many men and women to live a healthier life. Now the healthy eating guru is back with a new book of tricks called Clean Green Drinks that provides her fans with over 100 healthy and balanced drink recipes she utilizes to shed pounds and keep them off. Candice is always looking for better ways to live a clean, healthy lifestyle and she offers a new and tasty option to the latest trend of green health drinks.

Mario Batali: We knew Mario Batali wasn’t going to miss out on all the fun in Vegas! The Iron Chef broke out his signature shorts and Crocs look to join TLC’s Cake Boss Buddy Valastro and 2 culinary students from Le Cordon Bleu in the 2^nd annual live Chase Sapphire Preferred Grill Challenge as a part of the Vegas Uncork’d weekend event. Mario and his partner Brooke Worley took home the win in a close battle of fine Asian-inspired cuisine and Brooke earned a $20,000 scholarship towards her studies!

Debi Mazar: This actress turned host of the Cooking Channel show Extra Virgin and her husband Gabriele Corcos have become today’s leading voice in contemporary Tuscan cuisine. The duo recently recorded their favorite Tuscan recipes in a new cookbook titled Extra Virgin: Recipes and Love from our Tuscan Kitchen. This brazen New York City girl and her Italian husband sure do know good eats and the cookbook kicks off what is sure to be a whirlwind of a next 2 years for the actress and foodie as she is set to reprise her role as Shauna in the big screen adaptation of the hit HBO series Entourage.

Eddie Huang: We think it’s probably safe to say there is no other restaurateur and foodie who is changing the face of the industry like BaoHaus owner Eddie Huang. Eddie and his restaurant are like the skinny jeans of the restaurant world, becoming more popular by the day and hip to pop culture’s latest trends. His Taiwanese bun shop, serenaded by the best tunes from old and new school hip-hop, has now grown from a menu with less than 5 items into a popular New York eatery. Now Eddie is set to further break the mold for TV food personalities this summer as he debuts his new food competition show Snackdown not on Food Network as one would expect, but rather on MTV. This is the first show on MTV of this nature and we know the cultured Eddie Huang is the perfect man for the job!

Curtis Stone: Curtis Stone is enjoying his new life as a restaurateur after opening his first restaurant Maude in February, and his wife’s recent photo of Curtis and his toddler son making homemade pizza nearly crashed the internet with cuteness. Now the Top Chef Masters host has just announced that he and wife and actress Lindsey Price are expecting their second child! Luckily for Lindsey, we know Curtis will have the perfect recipe for any number of pregnancy cravings that could arise in the next few months.

John Besh: John was tossed into the mix of celebrity chefs and TV food personalities after his runner-up finish to Michael Symon in season 1 of Food Network’s Next Iron Chef competition. Now he and fellow celebrity chef Tiffany Derry have joined forces with bar and nightclub guru Jon Taffer to create an exciting new series called Hungry Investors that airs weekly on Spike TV. Each show the trio is tasked to chose who to invest in between two establishments in dire need of their financial and culinary help. Combining the exciting elements of a rescue show and a cooking show, John and his counterparts are seamlessly intermingling the worlds of reality TV and the culinary arts.

Ina Garten: Following the recent success of the latest cookbook from the Barefoot Contessa, the James Beard Award Foundation honored Ina as this year’s Outstanding Host for her Barefoot Contessa cooking series on the Food Network. It appears the critics and the public just can’t seem to get enough of Ina’s recipes whether she’s penning them in her cookbook or cooking them live on TV! As a part of a network that features in-kitchen cooking demo shows from the likes of Giada De Laurentiis and Rachael Ray, this award serves as proof that Ina remains one of TV’s most popular celebrity chef personalities.

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Top 10 Trending Chefs April 28 2014

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Cat Cora: Food Network’s newest hit TV series America’s Best Cook closely mimics ABC’s popular competition series The Voice and will feature contestants from across the country looking to earn the title of the country’s best cook. The well-known Iron Chef Cat Cora was cast along with 3 other Food Network personalities including Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon and Tyler Florence as the 4 team mentors and familiar Chopped host Ted Allen is handling the hosting duties. Cat will head the South team in the competition divided by regions and although the mentors are all old friends the kitchen trash talk has already begun.

Geoffrey Zakarian: Geoffrey has come a long way from out-cooking Elizabeth Faulkner to win Food Network’s Next Iron Chef in 2011. The now renowned restaurateur frequently joins the likes of Aaron Sanchez, Amanda Freitag, Chris Santos and other culinary masters to judge the hit series Chopped and is set to make a mid-July visit to the Hamptons to host the 4^th annual Dan’s Taste of Two Forks. The ritzy event habitually boasts high profile guests and celebrity chefs including having previously been hosted by Marcus Samuelsson and Gordon Ramsay.

Katie Lee: The Hamptons saved room for 2! Katie is another talented celebrity chef who lucked out with a free Hamptons trip to co-host Dan’s Taste of Two Forks summer soiree in Bridgehampton. Katie won over many fans after becoming a co-host and sharing new recipes alongside Zakarian, Sunny Anderson, Marcela Valladolid and Jeff Mauro on Food Network’s series The Kitchen. Together, Geoffrey and Katie will be the first celebrity chefs to co-host the event and are sure to be quite the dynamic duo given their previous work together.

Buddy Valastro: In today’s culinary world there is only one Cake Boss and that man is Buddy Valastro. If you have yet to see what this guy can do in the comfort of his family bakery Carlo’s it would be well worth watching the syndicated episodes of his TLC TV series Cake Boss and subsequent spin-offs that chronicle some of the best works of edible art he has made to date. The NJ native has expanded his baking empire to now include a spot in The Venetian right on the Vegas strip across from his restaurant Buddy V’s. His TV success should help the bakery fair well despite being housed under the same roof as signature restaurants from industry giants Mario Batali, Thomas Keller and Wolfgang Puck.

Spike Mendelsohn: Celebrity chefs get the opportunity to wine and dine a slew of famous entertainers, world leaders and celebrities, but how would you like to be the owner of the D.C. restaurant the President and First Lady like often like to frequent? Top Chef alum Spike Mendelsohn can claim that title and his Good Stuff Eatery has become one of the nation’s capitol’s favorite eateries with locations on Capitol Hill and in Georgetown. Hopefully his staff can hold down the business when Spike sets sail to Bermuda aboard the Celebrity Summit with fellow celebrity chefs Angelo Sosa and Ash Fulk this July as a part of the Top Chef at Sea Celebrity Cruise vacations.

Carla Hall: Fans of celebrity chef Carla Hall became accustomed to her ideas of cooking with love during her run as a finalist and fan-favorite on Bravo’s cooking competition series Top Chef. She now shares her recipes with love alongside chefs Michael Symon, Daphne Oz, and Mario Batali on the ABC cooking talk show The Chew. On April 1^st, she bundled together a number of home recipes and seasoning strategies to create her newest cookbook titled Carla’s Comfort Foods: Favorite Dishes from Around the World.

Kristen Kish: I bet if you were to ask any of the Food Network’s Top Chef judges at the time Tom Colicchio, Padma Lakshmi, Gail Simmons or Hugh Acheson if they had ever seen a series like season 10 they would be quick to say no. Kristen battled her way out of over 5 Last Chance Kitchens to reach the finale and win the title of Top Chef in 2012. Now the show’s most resilient chef will feel no pressure when she boards the Celebrity Reflection vessel headed towards some of Europe’s most popular hotspots. Kristen is part of a multi-cruise opportunity for fans of the show to rub shoulders and finally sample the work of Top Chef’s most popular alumni while enjoying life at sea.

Robert Irvine: It would be hard to find a better man’s man in the biz fit to preside over Long Island’s most popular grill-off than Robert Irvine. Restaurant Impossible’s brawny host will bring the perfect culinary expertise with gusto at the 2^nd annual Grillhampton grill-off kicking of the 2-day foodie event in Bridgehampton. The exciting competition will also feature a judging panel of equally familiar celebrity chefs including Chopped regular Marc Murphy, and NYC butcher Pat LaFrieda.

Giada De Laurentiis: What’s the next logical step in the career of a TV food star? Why a restaurant of course, and for Giada why not one in one of the most tourist heavy cities in the States. Her first career restaurant GIADA is going through the final stages before its launch in June and its location in the Las Vegas strip’s newest boutique hotel The Cromwell should help rival the already popular celebrity chef restaurants down the road from Bobby Flay, Alain Ducasse, and Emeril Lagasse. The restaurant’s contemporary design and retractable windows that draw back to reveal beautiful views of Caesars Palace and the Bellagio fountains will only serve to compliment her delectable Italian cuisine.

Alton Brown: Alton Brown has assumed the role as the industry’s MacGyver in the kitchen with a million tips to bettering every aspect of your kitchen, and even we have to admit his latest kitchen hack is somewhat of a stroke of genius. Hate how the condiment bottles all get terribly aggravating to squirt during their final days of life in the fridge? Alton suggests simply converting an unused egg carton into a make-shift condiment rack as the egg slots work perfect to hold the form of an upside down bottle. Problem solved!

Top 10 Trending Celebrity Chefs October 18 2013

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ANNE BURRELL: Who said Guy Fieri is the only one who can rock the spiky, blonde hair look? With her pumped-up personality and impressive resume, it’s no secret as to why Anne Burrell has experienced such great success with Food Network. Aside from her own series ‘Secrets of Restaurant Chef,’ Burrell also stars on ‘Chef Wanted,’ ‘ Worst Cooks in America,’ and ‘Next Iron Chef: Super Chefs.’ Battling alongside Mario Batali as his sous chef on Iron Chef America, Burrell proves that you don’t need orange crocs to become a Food Network staple.

GAIL SIMMONS: She’s more than a professional chef, she is a professional eater! Or so she claims. As a trained culinary expert and food writer, Gail Simmons has been a judge on Top Chef since day one of its creation. This year marks Gail and Tom Colicchio’s tenth season of the series. It is safe to say they have officially been crowned Top Chef Royalty.

CANDICE KUMAI: With all the good food in New York City, how does this bitch stay so skinny? Well, if the author of ‘The Skinny Bitch’ Cookbook is overweight… seems a tad contradictory, don’t ya think? Not only is this former Lifetime host and ‘Iron Chef America’ judge sweeter than honey, but she helps her female and male audiences cut back on the carbs, lose weight and eat healthier. As a contributing editor for Shape Magazine and Men’s Fitness Magazine, men and women turn to Candice for ways to get their beach bodies all prepped and ready for summer.

MARCELA VALLADOLID: As a culinary globetrotter, this Tijuana native has been country-hopping ever since her first start at the Los Angeles Culinary Institute. Marcela was then trained in Paris, ran a catering company in Mexico, became a food editor for Bon Appetit magazine in New York and somehow managed to wind up in Martha Stewart’s kitchen. No, seriously. She was chosen as a contestant for The Apprentice: Martha Stewart alongside Bethenny Frankel. And now, you can find her on the Food Network set of ‘Mexican Made Easy.’

ELLIE KRIEGER: Who said ‘delicious can’t be healthy?’ As a registered dietician and the head of the nutrition education initiative for First Lady Michelle Obama’s ‘Let’s Move’ Campaign, you certainly won’t find any deep fried, sugar coated dishes in this gal’s cookbooks, but that doesn’t mean she skimps out on the culinary goods. Ellie proves that nixing the fat and unnecessary calories does not compromise the taste and flavor. If you have any friends or family going for the healthy-eating New Year’s Resolution, make sure to send them Ellie’s way!

GIADA DE LAURENTIIS: Ciao Bella! We just can’t help but love this Emmy-award winning Italian beauty with her eloquent demeanor and contagious smile- not to mention her recipes that always seem to call for nutella! From her five Food Network shows to her multiple cookbooks to even her product lines at Target, take look around… Giada is everywhere and we hope she never leaves!

CAT CORA: As the first and only female Iron Chef, Cat definitely is a female trendsetter in the culinary world. She proved that women can not only hack it with the big boys in the kitchen, but they can dominate the competition. Most recently she launched her latest restaurant in Singapore at the Resorts World Sentosa. Oh and did we mention diners sit smack dab in the middle of the world’s largest oceanarium? Table for four please!

AMANDA FREITAG: Honesty is the best policy… especially if you are Amanda Freitag on the set of Food Network’s ‘Chopped.’ She may be truthful, but hey, atleast she is polite and let’s face it, she is a far, far cry from the King of Blunt, Gordon Ramsay. Aside from her permanent home at the judges table, Amanda has competed on ‘Iron Chef’ and ‘The Next Iron Chef’ losing to her fellow judge, Alexandra Guarnaschelli. Now, with a new restaurant in NYC in the works, she will go toe to toe with Guarnaschelli one more time.

ALEXANDRA GUARNASCHELLI: Since we are already talking about her, we might as well just go all in right now. Even though she is a fierce competitor in the kitchen, Alex is also a devoted mom, successful restaurateur and a Food Network host and judge herself. Working under and next to great chefs such as Daniel Boulud and Larry Forgione, Guarneschelli definitely learned from the best and has the chops to survive in this competitive industry. Power to the she!

AARTI SEQUEIRA: Many chefs owe a big ‘THANK YOU’ to the producers and creators of ‘The Next Food Network Star.’ Talents such as Guy Fieri, Melissa D’Arabian, Jeff Mauro and Season 6’s Winner, Aarti Sequeira all sky-rocketed their careers after they took home the win. Aarti was just a dedicated foodie and journalist, until this show changed her life. Now she is a main player on the Food Network line-up with her series ‘Aarti Party’ where she brings her beloved Indian flavors to everyday dishes. Bring on the Party!

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