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Ronald McDonald

The Original Man Behind McDonald's and Many other Franchises

Ronald McDonald (The Original) is a name recognized worldwide for the success of his family's McDonald's Hamburgers restaurants. Ronald is a successful published Author (Ronald McDonald's The Complete Hamburger, Ronald McDonald's International Burger Book, The Franchise Buyers Guide, and several other nonfood-related books). He has been involved in franchising and restaurants for over 5 decades wo...

Candice Brown

Baker, Winner of The Great British Bake

Candice Brown is the winner of The Great British Bake Off 2016. Born in North London, Candice grew up in the pubs that her parents ran – and that she famously immortalized in gingerbread for her most talked about showstopper. Taught to bake by her beloved Nan, Candice strives to emulate her style, often referring back to her treasured recipe book and handwritten notes. Candice loves everything vin...

Matt Groark

PE Teacher By Day, BBQ By Night

A Health and Physical Education Teacher by day, Matt Groark is also the owner of a small business – Groark Boys BBQ, which he officially kicked off with a fundraiser at his HS in September 2018. Over the past few years, he’s cooked up pulled pork, brisket, mac and cheese, and more, giving back over $30,000 to a host of charities and community organizations. Along the way, he has fed the likes of P...

Amanda Haas

Food Writer, Cooking Instructor, Cookbook Author

Amanda Haas is an accomplished food writer, cooking instructor, video host, and cookbook author. She has contributed to over a dozen cookbooks and written three of her own, including the best-selling book “The Anti-Inflammation Cookbook: The Delicious Way to Reduce Inflammation and Stay Healthy” (Chronicle Books, 2016) and “The Vibrant Life: Eat Well, Be Well (Chronicle Books, August 2019).” After...

Darryl Postelnick

Executive Turned Food Influencer

Darryl, a former Microsoft Executive turned cook with 2.9 million followers on TikTok, is a family man from Chicago who specializes in creating delicious meals, no matter what you are craving! From a plethora of pasta recipes, steak, seafood and more, Darryl has a delicious recipe for any meal of the day. Darryl creates all of his meals homemade in his beautiful kitchen, or outside with his state-...

Al "Bubba" Baker

NFL Athlete; Owns a catering Southern-Style BBQ Cuisine

Bubba Baker made his mark early as he began his NFL career with the Lions with an incredible 23 sacks (an unofficial stat at that time) his rookie year, with five sacks in a single game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This is a team record that still stands today. If sack stats had been counted from the beginning of Bubba's career he would be the NFL's all time leading pass rusher still today. O...

Peter Sawkins

Baker, TV Personality, Chef, Author

Peter Sawkins is a competitor, who won the 2020 season of The Great British Bake Off. After growing up watching the show, he decided to take up baking himself. When the opportunity came for him to participate and compete in the show, Peter showed no mercy and won the competition. He loves using ingredients that honor his homeland of Scotland and incorporates those into his dishes throughout the sh...

Rahul Mandal

Baker, Scientist, Researcher

Rahul Mandal is a culinary guru when it comes to baking. His first experience with cooking came when he moved to the UK and discovered new styles. After being invited to The Great British Bake Off in 2018, he ended up winning the competition earning several awards along the way. As if that was not enough, Rahul was re-invited to participate in a 2021 challenge of The Great British Bakeoff featurin...

Nil Zacharias

Expert: Plant-based Food, Author, Speaker, Entrepreneur

Nil Zacharias is a leading expert in the growing plant-based food industry. He is an author, podcaster, entrepreneur, advisor, and sought-after international speaker who has spent over a decade focused on the intersection of food, health, and sustainability. Nil is the founder of Eat For The Planet (an impact media and consulting firm), co-founder of Spire (an event production company) and 80/20 P...

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Adriana Urbina

Chef Consultant, Recipe developer, 3 Times Food Network Chopped Champion

Adriana Urbina is a Latin American Chef, TV host, recipe developer & women’s advocate with more than 12 years of experience in the restaurant industry, who believes that cooking is a form of self-expression that brings people together and elevates the human spirit. She graduated from Alain Ducasse Culinary School in Paris and the Institute of integrative Nutrition in NYC. Urbina perfected her culi...

Rodney Scott

Renowned Pitmaster Chef and Entrepreneur.

Pitmaster Rodney Scott has been cooking whole-hog barbecue, over wood coals since he was 11 years old. For the next 25 years he worked with his family in their bbq stop in Hemingway, SC until 2017 when he partnered with Nick Pihakis of Pihakis Restaurant group to open Rodney Scott’s BBQ in the North Central neighborhood of Charleston, SC. In that same year the restaurant was named one the 50 Best...

Eduardo Garcia

Celebrity Chef and Speaker

An avid outdoorsman and classically-trained chef with an unmatched zest for life, chef Eduardo Garcia is a testament to the power of the human spirit in the face of adversity.   Eduardo found his passion for cooking at an early age, cutting his teeth in the industry at just 15 years old; hustling over hot pans, flipping burgers, and throwing pizzas. After working in the fast-paced kitchens of Seat...

Trevor Anderson

Performance Coach | Speaker | Educator

Elite talent does not guarantee greatness. Trevor shows athletes and leaders how to master the basics, train with purpose, and show up daily with the mindset to get better every single day.

Ali Khan

Food Critic, TV Personality

Ali Khan is a well-known food critic, TV personality, and who was recently the host of Food Network's Spring Baking Championship and previously the host of Cheap Eats on Cooking Channel for 5 seasons. Additionally, he can be seen featured on Chopped, Chopped Jr, Best Thing I Ever Ate, and is hosting the new digital Series with MLS team Austin FC.

Chef Yisus

Celebrity Chef, Food Critic, Writer

Chef Yisus is a three-time Emmy award winner, cuisine, restauranteur, author, Chef & Host panelist of the extremely popular morning show Despierta America on Univision, and the most recent winner of “Mira Quién Baila Univision All Stars” (the Spanish Dancing with The Stars). He's very well known in the Spanish language side. In another life, Chef Yisus was a former professional baseball player!

Nilou Motamed

Food, Travel & Lifestyle Expert, Co-Founder Story Collective

Nilou Motamed has been shaping the conversation in food and travel for more than 20 years. She is a judge on Seasons 16 and 17 of Bravo’s award-winning series Top Chef and has been named one of AdWeek’s 30 Most Influential People in Food. She most recently served as Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine. She is also the former Editor-in-Chief of Epicurious.com and the long-time Features Director & Senior...

Christian Petroni

TV Personality, Host, and restauranteur, Executive Chef-Owner of Fortina Restaurants

Christian Petroni is a TV Personality, Host, and restauranteur. Most recently, he was the Executive Chef and Owner of Fortina Restaurants. Fortina opened in Armonk NY in 2013 to wild success, and led to openings in Brooklyn, Yonkers, Rye Brook, NY, and Stamford. Born and raised in an Italian household in the Bronx, he graduated from the New York Restaurant School for Culinary Arts and spent his su...

Joe Fattorini

Presenter of The Wine Show | Wine Personality of the Year | "The Most Charismatic Force in Wine Media Today"

How do you connect with 100 million wine lovers? Talk to someone who already does.

Cliff Crooks

Cuisiner, Managing Partner - New Chapter Hospitality Group, Host #ChefBootCamp @FoodNetwork

Chef Cliff has been cooking in prominent kitchens throughout New York City for more than 20 years. Before joining BLT Restaurant Group in 2010 as Executive Chef of BLT Steak New York, he held positions at Salute!, Blue Water Grill, and Gramercy Tavern. After more than two years of leading the kitchen at BLT Steak New York, the hospitality group's flagship restaurant, Chef Cliff was named Culinary...

Jason Smith

Chef, Television Host & Personality, Food Stylist, Recipe Developer, Entrepreneur, Cookbook Author

A self-taught cook and baker, learning from his grandmother’s knee from the age of 6, in his beloved home state of Kentucky, Jason Smith has taken his Granny’s heritage recipes and given them his twist, to develop a style he likes to refer to as “Country Bling.” Good ol' country and southern-rooted food elevated with fresh, vibrant ingredients, changing the minds of millions on how traditional foo...

Michael Chernow

founder of Kreatures of Habit & Seamores, Co-founder of The Meatball Shop, Podcast Host of The Kreatures of Habit Podcast, Celebrity Chef, R...

Michael Chernow is a Serial Entrepreneur, Restaurateur, Podcast Host, and expert in the world of wellness, fitness, and nutrition. Most recently, Michael founded and launched Kreatures of Habit, an in-your-face lifestyle and wellness brand, reimagining how you establish healthy habits in your life. After years in the restaurant business in NYC, he realized that his calling was to be of service in...

David Burke

Award Winning Chef, Entrepreneur

Fueled by passion, grit, and a knack for artful innovation, David Burke is one of the best-known and most respected chefs in modern American cuisine. Acknowledged as a leading pioneer in American cooking, Burke, a proud New Jerseyan who was born in Brooklyn, is recognized internationally for his revolutionary techniques, exceptional skills, successful restaurant empire, and many TV appearances. In...

Adrienne Cheatham

Culinary Expert, Celebrity Chef

Chef Adrienne Cheatham grew up in the kitchens and dining rooms of the restaurants her mother managed in Chicago, Illinois. She would help with bussing tables, running food, washing dishes, and whatever was needed, after homework was finished. At her parent’s insistence, she went to college before pursuing her culinary ambitions, attending Florida A&M University (A Proud HBCU) in Tallahassee, Flor...

Chef Scott Conant

Celebrity Chef, Author

Scott Conant is a chef, restauranteur, and television personality best known as a regular judge on Food Network's hit series 'Chopped' and most recently named the Host of the 2020 Chopped Spinoff 'Chopped Sweets'.  He also served as host of 24 Hour Restaurant Battle on Food Network and hosted the hit FN competition series, "Best Baker in America" on Food Network. Scott has published three cookbook...

Curtis Stone

Australian Celebrity Chef, Author

Curtis Stone is an Australian chef, restauranteur, author, and television personality best known for both Food Network's All-Star Academy and Beach Eats as well as Bravo's Top Chef Masters and its spin-off, Top Chef Duels. He also was the host of Universal Kids' new show Top Chef Jr. He currently has a show on PBS- Field Trip with Curtis Stone, FOX - Crime Scene Kitchen, and NETFLIX Iron Chef.Curt...

Michael Schulson

Top restaurateur in Philadelphia, 10 locations nationally, Michelin level kitchens, television personality

Michael is a restaurateur and television personality.  He owns 9 successful restaurants: Sampan and Graffiti Bar, Giuseppi & Sons, Harp & Crown, Monkitail in Hollywood FL,  Independence Beer Garden, Double Knot in Philadelphia, Izakaya at the Borgata Hotel, Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, and opening Alpen Rose Steak House in Philadelphia today. He also created restaurants at JFK's Jet Blue Termina...

Christina Tosi

Two-time James Beard Award-Winning Chef and Owner of Milk Bar, NY Times Bestselling Author and Television Personality

Christina Tosi is the two-time James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Milk Bar, with bakery locations across the country, an online care package business, and products in the aisles of the grocery store. She served as a judge on Fox’s...

Will Guidara

Restaurateur, Eleven Madison Park, The #1 Restaurant in the World; NY Times Best Selling Author, Unreasonable Hospitality

Will Guidara is the author of the NY Times Bestseller Unreasonable Hospitality, which chronicles the lessons in service and leadership he has learned over the course of his career in restaurants. He is the former co-owner Eleven Madison Par...

Raenel CHEF RAE Stelly

Traveling Private Cheg and CEO of Rae's Cuisine

Chef Rae is the Executive Chef for Sodexo Food Services. She also worked as a traveling private chef, while running her company, Rae’s Cuisine, she decided to step into an educator role as a K-12 culinary teacher, for the past two years, and although her position has now changed, she is still an educator at heart focused on finding opportunities to spread awareness about health through food. She i...

Jonathon Sawyer

Award Winning Chef and head chef of Kindling in Chicago.

In 2007, Sawyer moved to Cleveland and earned the Rising Star Chef award from both Restaurant Hospitality and GAYOT while working at Bar Cento, named Northern Ohio Live’s Best New Restaurant. With a blossoming career and growing recognition, Sawyer decided to pursue his lifelong dream of opening his own restaurant, quickly putting Cleveland on the culinary map with his flagship restaurant The Gree...

Missy Chase Lapine

New York Times Bestselling Cookbook Author

Missy Chase Lapine is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author of The Sneaky Chef series whose original and fresh approach to healthy cooking has transformed the way America feeds its families. Missy is a corporate wellness expert, renowned speaker, and food innovator. She is also a certified Integrative Nutrition Health Coach with a thriving private practice. Missy’s unique and creative metho...

Sophie Jaffe

Wellbeing Influencer, Founder, Yogi, Raw Food Chef

Sophie Jaffe is a Los Angeles-based health and wellness expert, who is certified as a raw food chef and yoga teacher. Sophie founded her company and wellness brand, Philosophie, with the goal of making it easier, more inspiring, and more delicious to attain optimal health and radiant wellness. Through her holistic approach to wellbeing, Sophie has learned that total wellbeing begins with total nou...

Ludo Lefebvre

Award-winning Celebrity Chef, Author

Chef Ludo Lefebvre is one of the most influential chefs in Los Angeles dining, pioneering and revolutionizing the culinary industry. After training in France for 12 years with the great masters, Ludo came to Los Angeles and was soon awarded the prestigious Mobil Travel Guide Five Star Award at two different restaurants, L’Orangerie in 1999 and 2000 and Bastide in 2006. From 2007 to 2012, he became...

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