Raised in Costa Rica and Los Angeles, Govind Armstrong is one of the nation’s brightest cooking stars, noted for his commitment to market-driven California-style cuisine. Creator of the Table 8 brand of restaurants, Armstrong is currently the executive chef and owner of 8 Oz Burger Bars in Los Angeles and South Beach. He plans on expanding to California, Arizona, and... read full bio
Master chef Graham Elliot was making waves in the Chicago culinary scene before he faced off against Bobby Flay on Iron Chef America. Hey may have lost by a mere 2 points, but he continued to climb in the ranks with the opening of his first restaurant, and first bistronomic in Chicago, The Graham Elliot. It currently holds two Michelin... read full bio
Born into a family of renowned hoteliers, Graham Kerr was constantly surrounded by amazingly talented chefs. He was first educated at Brighton College, where at just fifteen years old he became a trainee manager at the Roebuck Hotel in East Sussex, England. After five years in the British Army as catering adviser, he became General Manager of England's Royal Ascot... read full bio
Chef and culinary pioneer Grant Achatz has made a lasting impression on the gastronomic world. His astonishing journey is characterized by outstanding accomplishments, unyielding resolve, and a remarkable capacity for overcoming hardship. at St. Clair, Michigan, where he grew up, Achatz worked at his parents' family-run cafe and became passionate about cuisine. His desire to become a chef was motivated by... read full bio
Guy Fieri is one of the most well-known and significant figures in the culinary industry. He is a chef, restaurateur, New York Times Best Selling book, and Emmy Award-winning TV host. Guy achieved a remarkable milestone for a chef when he was awarded a star on the renowned Hollywood Walk of Fame. At the age of ten, Guy fell in... read full bio
Guy Savoy is the Head Chef and owner of the eponymous Guy Savoy restaurant in Paris and sister restaurant in Las Vegas, both of which have earned several Michelin stars. He apprenticed with the Troisgros brothers for three years, after which he opened his own restaurant in New York, and then in rue Duret, Paris. Gordon Ramsay, who was trained... read full bio
Heston first took a variety of jobs to support himself while honing his culinary abilities in the evenings, even though he already had his ideal vocation in mind. Heston did not have any professional training as a chef, but he did spend two weeks every summer in France learning more about the chefs, ingredients and recipes that went into creating the... read full bio
Holly Clegg has offered expert advice on quick, flavorful and healthy eating for nearly 20 years through her best-selling trim&TERRIFIC cookbook series. Consisting of 14 books to-date, the trim&TERRIFIC series includes the newly released women’s lifestyle cookbook Too Hot in the Kitchen: Secrets to Sizzle at Any Age, in addition to the specialized trim&TERRIFIC Diabetic Cooking and Eating Well Through... read full bio
Chef, food advocate, TV personality, culinary innovator, and restaurateur Hugh Acheson has a lot on his plate. Chef Acheson believes that every choice we make – from the food we eat, where it comes from and how we prepare it – has a lasting impact on our children and the world they will inherit. A staunch supporter of No Kid... read full bio
Ilan Hall is an American chef, best known as the winner of the second season of the Bravo television network's reality series Top Chef. Hall is a native of Great Neck, New York. As a teenager, Hall worked at Marine Fishery, a seafood store in his hometown of Great Neck and was later trained at Italy's Lorenzo de' Medici Apicus... read full bio
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Ingrid Hoffmann is a Colombian-American restaurateur and television personality. She is the host of Simply Delicioso, a Food Network series and Delicioso, a Spanish-language cooking and lifestyle show. Ingrid has two cookbooks, Simply Delicioso: A Collection of Everyday Recipes with a Latin Twist and Latin d'Lite: Delicious Latin Recipes with a Healthy Twist. Ingrid began cooking at a young age... read full bio
Isa Chandra Moskowitz is a highly popular vegan chef and cookbook author from Brooklyn, New York City. She is also the former host of Post Punk Kitchen, as well as a vegan restaurateur who owns the restaurant Modern Love, which held its grand opening in Omaha in 2014. Isa opened up a second location in her native Brooklyn back in... read full bio
Ivan Orkin may be a self-proclaimed “Jewish kid from Long Island,” but his sights were never set in the US. He moved to Japan immediately after graduating from the University of Colorado with a degree in Japanese. He eventually returned to the US and discovered his love for the world of food at the Culinary Institute of America. Upon graduation,... read full bio
Author of La Technique and La Methode earned him a place in the James Beard Foundation's Cookbook Hall of Fame. Founder of the American Institute of Wine and Food. He has won numerous awards for instructional videos and books. Writes a column in Food & Wine magazine. In 1996 created a line of kitchen linens,currently available in gourmet specialty stores.... read full bio
If an exquisite pastry is like fine art, Chef Jacques is Michelangelo and Rembrandt rolled into one. The youngest Meilleur Ouvrier de France (Best Pastry Chef of France) in history, he spent eleven inspired years as Executive Pastry Chef at Le Cirque 2000 before leaving to open his renowned wholesale, retail, and e-commerce chocolate company, Jacques Torres Chocolate in Brooklyn,... read full bio
The office for Jamie Oliver The Naked Chef has asked that CTI not list them, give out pricing, information or availability. If you are interested in this celebrity only, please contact CTI directly and we can let you know the process needed to confirm a date with them.
Internationally reputed for his innovative, groundbreaking cuisine, Jean-Georges Vongerichten has emerged as one of the country's leading chefs. Acclaimed by critics as 'formidably gifted,' a 'residential genius' and the 'enfant terrible of modern French cooking', his culinary vision has consistently set new standards and helped define today's generation of cooking. The Mercer Kitchen, at the stylish Mercer Hotel in SoHo,... read full bio
Jeanne Benedict is fast becoming a household name and face! Jeanne Benedict's popularity has been on the rise since the success of her first book and as the host / designer of the TV theme party show, Weekend Entertaining on the DIY network. Jeanne Benedict partnered with Michael's Arts & Crafts in a national media tour for their new book... read full bio
Jeff Mahin is a chef/partner at Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE), the co-founder of the consumable nutrition company Split Nutrition (splitnutrition.com) and the brains behind the restaurants Stella Barra Pizzeria (Santa Monica, Hollywood, Chicago, and Bethesda), Summer House Santa Monica (in Chicago and Bethesda), Do-Rite Donuts (Chicago) and M Street Kitchen (Santa Monica). He was also a contestant on Season 1 of... read full bio
