Geoffrey Blount

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CHARITIES: Bakery Bistro Initiative at Central Piedmont Community College – helps raise scholarship money for baking and pastry-arts students

BIO: Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount is a certified executive pastry chef (CEPC) from Stanley, NC. Chef Blount currently works as the executive pastry chef and head instructor of the Bakery and Pastry Arts program at Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). He graduated from CPCC in 1995 with an AAS degree in Culinary Arts and also attended the French Pastry School in Chicago. Chef Geoffrey Blount has been teaching at CPCC since 2007 and also is the owner of Sugar Buzz Pastry.

Prior to accepting a position with CPCC, Chef Geoffrey Blount’s professional career consists of work as a Pastry Chef, Executive Chef and Owner at top hotels, shops and clubs throughout the southeastern United States. He is a member of the American Culinary Federation (ACF), was named the 2009 Charlotte Chef of the Year, owned pastry shops that won the Best Pastry Shop award in 2005 and 2006, and was a Top Ten Charlotte Chef for 2004. Additionally, his dessert creations were featured at the James Beard Dinner in 2004 and 2005, an impressive distinction. It is Chef Blount’s career goal to become a certified master pastry chef, of which there are only 14 in the entire United States. Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: Food Network

WHO REPRESENTS GEOFFREY BLOUNT: Celebrity Chef Geoffrey Blount can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

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Gene Briggs

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CHARITIES: Matthews Farmers Market, Local Farmers Initiatives

BIO: Celebrity chef Gene Briggs has been a culinary mainstay in the Charlotte area for more than a decade. With over 25 years of experience, Chef Briggs has become a master of his craft. His restaurants Blue and Table are two of Charlotte’s most sought after restaurant reservations and have consistently been ranked as two of the city’s top eateries.

Chef Briggs got his start in the culinary industry in 1979, working in various restaurants located in upstate New York. Here, he honed and perfected his practice of using fresh ingredients to create a variety of dishes that sample cuisines from around the world. This philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients has defined and inspired Chef Briggs’ cooking throughout his career, something that is still evident at his restaurants today.

In 1991, Briggs moved to Charlotte to work at Prisms Restaurant. After getting his start in the Queen City, he spent time working at many of the city’s most well known restaurants. Finally, in 2003, Briggs opened up his own restaurant for the first time, Blue Restaurant & Bar. To no surprise, the establishment quickly gained a reputation as one of Charlotte’s best restaurants.

Serving up a variety of cuisines, Blue’s menu is inspired by Spanish, French, Sicilian, Italian, and Moroccan cuisines. Chef Briggs stays true to his philosophy of only using the freshest ingredients, as he purchases locally, farm grown ingredients. Additionally, Briggs as an advocate of developing a communal relationship between local farmers and his restaurants and uses Blue as a tasty vehicle to display the advantages of such a relationship.

Following the success of Blue Restaurant & Bar, Briggs opened Table Restaurant & Bar in 2006. Table also saw immediate success and firmly planted Briggs among Charlotte’s most sought after chefs. All in all, Chef Brigg’s restaurants have won the “Best in Hot Food” category at Taste of the Nation in 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008, have been recognized by Zagat as one of “America’s Top Restaurants” and have earned numerous Open Table awards. Brigg’s has also participated in three James Beard Dinners and numerous Chef’s Best Dinners.

Additionally, Chef Gene Briggs gives instructional cooking sessions once a month at his restaurant, Blue. Sessions are available to the public via signup, and each month Briggs focuses one utilizing one, fresh ingredient. Celebrity Chef Gene Briggs is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

WHO REPRESENTS GENE BRIGGS: Celebrity Chef Gene Briggs can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

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Frank Bonanno

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BIO: Celebrity Chef Frank Bonannofound his passion for cooking at an early age. Growing up in a Sicilian family, Bonanno can vividly remember how the aromas of his grandmother’s cooking filled his New Jersey home. When recounting his childhood, he also tells of how he and his mother would try out Julia Child recipes on the family in hopes recreating her culinary magic.

After graduating from the University of Denver with a degree in finance, Frank Bonanno determined that Wall Street was not for him. He decided to pursue his love of cooking and obtained a second degree from the Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, NY. Not soon after, in 2001, Chef Bonanno returned to Denver to open up his first restaurant, Mizuna, and has not looked back since.

Chef Bonanno’s restaurants are regarded not only among the best restaurants in Denver, but in the entire United States. Zagat has recognized Bonanno restaurants Mizuna, Luca d’Italia, and Bones as part of their prestigious ranking of “America’s Top Restaurants.” Further exemplifying his culinary skill, Chef Frank Bonanno has opened three additional restaurants ranging in cuisine from French-casual, to American, to Asian.

Bonanno says he “is inspired by classic French techniques, but also by the simplicity of the type of food found in the best American restaurants.” Continuing with this them of simplicity in cooking, he believes in offering “clean flavors that enhance the freshest, finest ingredients.” Both of these statements perfectly sum up Bonanno’s cooking philosophy that the true “star” of his restaurants is the food.

Bonanno is an active blogger, social media participant and has appeared on multiple television networks. Most recently, he appeared at the Butte Wine & Food Festival held in July 20-24 in Denver, Colorado. Celebrity Chef Frank Bonanno is available for speaking engagements, endorsements, and cooking demonstrations.

APPEARANCES: The Great Food Truck Race, No Reservations, CBS News, Food Network Challenge

WHO REPRESENTS FRANK BONANNO: Celebrity Chef Frank Bonanno can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

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Eric Skokan

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BIO: Eric Skokan was born and raised in Virginia and studied history at the University of Virginia. While working at the award-winning Silver Thatch Inn, Eric quickly realized that he preferred cookbooks to textbook and after graduation; he traveled the world cooking in some of the best restaurants, until 2005 when he opened Black Cat Farm Table Bistro in Boulder.

As the saying goes, farm to table bistro—is true. There is no supply truck making deliveries of frozen foods, Eric Skokan grows his own food on his own farm, which supplies most of what he cooks at Black Cat. Free-range chickens, ducks, quail, hogs and organic produce, and a farm stand at the Boulder County Farmer’s Market.

Eric attributes all that he learned about sustainable, organic cooking from Nora Pouillon of Restaurant Nora in Washington, DC. When he moved to Bolder, Co he opened an organic ice cream place, Hatton Creamery, before opening Black Cat in 2007. Eric Skokan is available for speaking engagements, hosting and corporate hospitality.

WHO REPRESENTS ERIC SKOKAN: Celebrity Chef Eric Skokan can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

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Eric Jaeger

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BIO:  Eric Jaeger received his training in Denver restaurants where he found himself working with many of the top chefs in Colorado, and spent a few years cooking as a sous chef at two of the top jazz clubs. His next move was to Telluride to work as a sous chef and then as executive chef in Crested Butte Conference Center. Eric Jaeger lives by his motto, “Food tastes good. It’s my job to simply accent and present the natural flavors.” He loves to use clean flavors and mix them with elegant style. Eric Jaeger is available for cooking demonstrations, hosting and speaking engagements.

WHO REPRESENTS ERIC JAEGER: Celebrity Chef Eric Jaeger can be hired for endorsements and events in roles such as culinary consultant, event planner, public speaker, autograph signings, cooking demonstrations, hosting, Mommy Blogger events, SMTS, public relation campaigns, team building events and corporate hospitality.

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