My name is Aaron Perrott and I have been cooking since I was about 5 years old. It started with the little chef's hat and plastic chef's knife my mom bought me. Cooking has always been a la ...
Abby Cahill O'Brien is the creator of 5thjoy.com. 5thjoy.com's theme: "Life should never be without five joys: fashion, food, feathering the nest, flotsam, and writing." Where ...
Alex grew up in Mexico City and learned about Mexican food the way that many from Mexico and all over the world have, from his grandmother. After working in restaurants around Cancun he came to the U. ...
Born in Boston, MA and raised in the greater-Boston area, Alex Whitmore was always captivated by food, travel, and culture. After earning a bachelor's degree in anthropology at Vassar College, ...
Amanda grew up on the outskirts of Dublin Ireland in a suburb pretty similar to South Boston. There she started cooking and baking at age thirteen, old enough to be allowed to experiment with the flam ...
Amelia O'Reilly and Nico Monday, both chefs who trained at Chez Panisse with Alice Waters, decided to open The Market on River Road in Annisquam, thus becoming unofficially or not, the first Chez ...
Originally from Southern CA, chef and farmer Andy Varela owns and runs Maitland Mountain Farm with his fiancée Holly Maitland and their newborn son Jett. Renowned in his adopted home of Salem, ...
Annie was born and lived most of her life in London. She trained in cooking at The Cordon Bleu School and later worked there as one of the teachers. Annie was also chef at the Biras Creek Hotel on ...
Chef Antonio Bettencourt's training started at a young age. The passion for cooking was developed while helping prepare dinner at his mother's side each night and on holidays. Family trips ...
Barbara and Hilary Dombrowski started their organic nursery, then mostly herbs and edible flowers, in 1992, when organic fertilizers and materials were hard to find. They expanded in 1996 up the stree ...
Barbara Lynch is Chef and Owner of Barbara Lynch Gruppo, a collection of Boston restaurants that include No. 9 Park, B&G Oysters, Menton, Sportello, Drink and The Butcher Shop. She is also the ...
Having been in the bar and restaurant business off and on for the past 25 years, I wanted to host a show to share some of my favorite drinks and cocktails that the audience could make in the privacy o ...
Billy Aaron found his way to Gloucester via Commercial Fishing. Originally from Seattle, WA Billy was a Red King Crab fisherman in Alaska for 14 years where he developed his passion for cooking. ...
Billy Brandolini hails from Haverhill, Massachusetts, where he grew up in a family that has spawned more than one successful executive chef. "Chef Brando" as he is called, trained at L ...
Bo Cleary grew up in South Boston and lived there for over twenty years before moving to California. Growing up, Bo has always been physically active, whether that meant going to the gym or playing sp ...
Brett Roeske of Lula's Pantry has a background in design and a lifelong interest in exploring the world of food. Both passions came together with the opening of his store in 2003, and since ...
Caroline grew up on a farm in New Hampshire and has been growing, preserving and preparing farm fresh food her whole life. She currently does the same at Cogswell's Grant Farm in Essex, MA wher ...
Chad Lothian lives in Old Town, Maine. He is a Craft Beer Enthusiast and Homebrewer. Chad has traveled to brewpubs, breweries and brewfests all over New England. ...
Chris, creator of The DelGrosso Food Blog, is an Engineer, U.S Marine, avid runner, father of a beautiful daughter, and husband to a wonderful wife. He currently lives in New England, in the state of ...
Chris was born and raised in Virginia, where he first developed his love for barbecue, spicy food and live fire cooking. He entered the foodservice industry at age 18, when he left college and beca ...
Chris and Steve worked together years ago and when Chris published his first book, Thrill of the Grill, he used a recipe of Steve's for grilled clams and called it Clams Johnson. As you can see in ...
Christian Collins was born and raised in the oldest fishing port in the country, Gloucester,MA. Christian is an ambitious chef who is always striving to make people happy through the food he makes. ...
Since graduating from the Istituto Alberghiero (Hotel and Restaurant Management school) di Salerno in 1994, Ciro has traveled and worked in Italy, England and the US. Wine is always been an incredi ...
Dane Tullock is the Creative Director and driving force behind Cooking in the Great Outdoors (www.greatoutdoorscooking.net). A self-trained chef with roots in the south, Dane learned to cook in his ...
David joined St. Elmo Steak House in 2003. As the Executive Chef, he directs the culinary teams of St. Elmo and Harry & Izzy's. He has expertise in kitchen management, staffing, scheduling, pr ...
Chef David Gauvin studied and trained at Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI. Chef Gauvin honed his skills in healthcare dining services during a 5-year tenure with Massachusetts General ...
Deb Kaneb is owner and chef at Batter Up Bakery. The idea for Batter Up Bakery began over fifteen years ago. A lawyer by training, I was now at home with small children. While the kids napped and p ...
Diana Rodgers runs Clark Farm in Carlisle, Massachusetts. In her own words: "As a child growing up in Southampton, NY, I struggled to gain weight and was often sick. I was hospitalized for ...
Doyan's Appliance is a location where we shoot many of our videos. They use a Wolf Induction cooktop. ...
Elizabeth is Culinary Director at the Eurostoves Culinary Center where she teaches baking and pastry classes. She has studied in Switzerland, Italy, Mexico, Canada and Napa Valley and is a graduate ...
Using catch phrases like "Bam!" and "Kick it up a notch!" Lagasse showcased his personal cooking style and flair for the dramatic in his next TV project, Emeril Live! Featuring a l ...
Eric Lorden is the Owner and Executive Chef at Passports in Gloucester, MA. Eric started Passports Restaurant in Gloucester in 1995. He has worked in restaurants from Maine (where he grew up) to Fl ...
Gloucester native Felicia Mohan Ciaramitaro - known to her many followers as Sista Felicia - grew up cooking with her mother and grandmother. While perfecting her family's favorite recipes and her ...
Fortunato was born in Salerno Italy, just 30 minutes south of Naples. He began working as a baker In1992 for the Pasticceria Pantaleone, one of the oldest Pastry Shoppes in Italy. (A pasticceria is a ...
Francesco DiMercurio is no stranger to the restaurant industry. Since the age of twelve he has worked and put his touch on several local restaurants on Cape Ann. Coming from a traditional Sicilian fam ...
Chef and Proprietor, L'Espalier, Sel de la Terre, Au So Leil, and Apple Street Farm. "…food is best when it's in its purest form. My job is to enhance that natural flavor to all ...
Gina Weishaupt is the host of Gina's Everyday Gourmet cooking show that airs on Boxford Community TV and other Comcast local access channels in Essex County. Gina is a self taught cook who gain ...
Giovanna Tognetti is from the ancient Lombardian city of Brescia at the foot of the Italian Alps, but now lives in Swampscott, where she and her husband moved years ago as part of an American adventur ...
Graham Kerr is an internationally known culinary and television personality, award-winning author, and master of metaphorical speaking. His focus is on serving people who want to make healthy, creativ ...
In 1978, Greg Case was working four jobs to pay for his Manhattan tenement apartment. The apartment was run-down but the location was perfect: down the hall from the hairdresser for Good Morning Ameri ...
Greg has been judging the Canning at the Topsfield Fair for over twenty years. He ran a Community Canning Center at Essex Aggie from 1980 to 1990 and under his direction processed over 100,000 mason j ...
Guy Esposito is an orthopedic surgeon whose other passion is vegetable gardening. From his early medical school days until the present, he has been growing a variety of vegetables in his home garde ...
Hallie Baker is the Proprietor of Turtle Alley Handmade Chocolates. In her own words; "From the silkiest fudge, creamiest caramel, light, fluffy truffles and toffees enrobed in the finest choc ...
Heather writes the Food for Thought column in the Gloucester Daily Times, and has a blog by the same name which covers New England foods and food stories past and present. ...
Helene Spoto is Proprietor and Cooking Instructor of Helene's Custom Cuisine. Helene is still surprised how she became a cooking instructor. She always loved to cook, however, having a busy car ...
Irma Cohen is co-author and co-editor along with Connie Ross of "Our Best Recipes," produced by Temple Ahavat Achim, Gloucester, MA. Irma, like many others, always thought it would be a g ...
Jackson Cannon is Eastern Standard's bar manager and one of Boston's revered senior mixologists. Cannon's cocktail style is classic, but not conservative, and he views drink making as a tool of hospit ...
Jacques Pépin (born December 18, 1935) is an internationally recognized French chef, television personality, and author working in the United States. At the end of the 1980s and the start of th ...
Rojas spearheads Tallulah's culinary artistic vision. He originates from El Paso, Texas and is a graduate of the Culinary Art Institute of Dallas. Rojas has held positions as Executive Chef of The ...
Inspired by the movie Julie and Julia and encouraged by her family, Jancey Smith began blogging and writing food columns over two years ago. By day she is a graphic designer and print coordi ...
Jane Ward is the author of HUNGER (Forge, 2001) and THE MOSAIC ARTIST (2011). Jane graduated from Simmons College with a degree in English Literature, the desire to write novels, and an aptitude fo ...
Chef Jason Bond grew up in Wyoming and Kansas and moved to the East Coast in 1995 to pursue a culinary career. He was raised around farming and preserving the harvest, and this "root-cellar" ...
Jason grew up and learned to cook in New Mexico. He is s a Boston-based photographer who specializes in photographing exceptionally accomplished, busy people with real time constraints in real environ ...
Jeff Cala is Co-owner and Executive Chef at Latitude 43. Latitide 43 has been open for several years and has separate menus for the main restaurant, the sushi bar and the pub. The menu is season ...
Jen Perry has been the Nutrition Development Coordinator since June 2010. Jen has been involved with the programs of The Open Door since 2004, filling many roles in that time such as the Community ...
It all started at Atomic Cafe in Beverly, MA. Jennifer Frost & Lindsey Wishart had been college friends for years and over endless fair-trade coffees, shared a hopeful vision for their future b ...
Born and raised in Gloucester, Jenn now resides in Concord NH with her husband and three boys - Anthony 16, Steven 11 and Nicky 8. The boys are the highlight of her life. She grew up in an Italian ...
Originally from Mississippi, he moved to Indianapolis in 1996 and began working for Outback Steak House. He began his career with St. Elmo Steak House in 1999 and became Head Chef in 2007. ...
Jim Bailey, The Yankee Chef, is a third generation New England chef and Food Historian. Being a chef for over 25 years, his first cookbook, in a series, entitled The Yankee Chef came out this year. H ...
Jim and Joan Malkin now live in Chilmark, MA and have been cooking together for the 30+ years of their marriage. They've lived in or traveled to over 50 countries for business or pleasure &n ...
Joanne and I have known each other since high school; we've been teenagers together and now we are raising teenagers together, and we still laugh very hard about it all. With a law degree and a Ma ...
Joe Faro, owner of the Tuscan Kitchen in Southern New Hampshire, always had a passion for food. He now has over 25 years of experience in the industry but started off with a business plan for Joseph ...
Born in Springfield, Massachusetts, Jordan Rubin has a Culinary Arts degree from Johnson and Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island. His first sushi job was at 10 Prime Steak and Sushi in Pro ...
Chef Jose Duarte was born in Lima, spent much of his childhood in Venezuela, and now has a small but powerful restaurant in Boston's North End called "Taranta," where he's created a ...
Julie is Owner and Chef of Classic Cooks Catering. Classic Cooks has been entertaining since 1980 all over the North Shore and Boston area. They catered the premier of the "Perfect Storm ...
Kathleen Powers Erickson has always been a history buff and a foodie. She received her doctoral degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1992, specializing in 19th Century Art and Reli ...
Keith Pooler is Co-Owner and Executive Chef at Bergamot in Somerville, MA. A native of Gloucester, Chef Keith Pooler has always had a great appreciation for the bounty of both the land and the sea ...
Kelli Petri is Owner and Executive Chef of Relish, a healthy home meal service. Kelli, a graduate of the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts, comes to the table with 20 years of cooking and enterta ...
Owner of Cakes for Occasions Kelly received her culinary education from the Ballymaloe Cookery School in Ireland and the Cordon Bleu in London. She started her business with a single oven in her mothe ...
Ken Duckworth started cooking at the age of 16, and has been cooking since. At 19, with a deep passion for all things food, Ken decided to make a career in the restaurant business. After honing his ...
Chef Kevin King of Fluke Wine, Bar & Kitchen has had a passion for the culinary arts since he was a teen. After working with many world-renowned chefs, he has apprenticed, practiced, and perfected ...
Her mother and grandmother taught her to cook. She is teaching her daughter, 9-year-old Lilly, to cook, but the sensible checkered-apron imagery stops there when describing Essex resident Laurie Lufki ...
Leni Gross Young has been a cook since her freshman year at Dickinson College, where she worked food service all four years. Her friends decided to put on a party with the theme "The Masque of th ...
Lenny Linquata obtained an AS degree from the Culinary Institute in America in Hyde Park, New York in 1972 and graduated from University of Massachusetts Amherst with a BS cum laude in Hotel and Resta ...
Hi, my name is Madeleine and I am a 17-year-old unofficial cook and baker. I have loved to cook for years, something which probably stemmed from all the years baking with my grandmother and visiting h ...
Maggie Mehaffey's family, who all help run the Mehaffey Farm, have lived on their farmland since 1826. The house and barn date back to the early 1700s. The farm's original 300 acres pr ...
Manny Lapa has been working in restaurants since he was fourteen years old when he moved to Lowell, MA. After having worked in almost every style of food he finally found his true calling as General M ...
Maria Cracchiolo is co-owner and baker along with her mother and husband at Caffé Sicilia, making the bakery a real family run business. Under their new ownership, Caffe Sicilia first opened ...
Marilynn and Sheila Brass are the authors of "Heirloom Baking With The Brass Sisters" and "Heirloom Cooking With The Brass Sisters". They are also hosts of "The Brass Siste ...
Marta Manceau splits time between Italy and the United States, and shares her recipe for homemade Rotolone with us. Watch the video and you can see how Marta prepares the pasta in a food processor, ...
Authenticity, history, tradition. Those three words define Mary Ann Esposito and the signature cooking style that has made her one of America's most loved television chefs. As the creator an ...
Mary Ann McCormick is Managing Partner of Lark Fine Foods, based in Essex, MA. Lark® Fine Foods is a family owned and operated business run by a mother-daughter team. We make Cookies for Grown- ...
Massimiliano Campanari is the Executive Chef at Lavo in Las Vegas, Nevada. ...
Melissa Sallah is Co-owner and Chef of Sugar Magnolias. Melissa has worked in restaurants since she was 14 years old and opened Sugar Magnolias in 2002. In addition to the restaurant they offer ...
Dr. White is a professor of Food Anthropology at Boston University. She returns to Japan often to continue research in contemporary social and cultural topics. She presently is engaged in research ...
Michael D. Sargent has always enjoyed grilling and cooking, starting as youngster out on Long Island, mostly enjoying the local fresh seafood from stripers, swordfish, steamers and mussels to a nice g ...
Mike Ciaramitaro ran Trupiano's Sausage in Gloucester, MA for 14 years. Mike didn't start out as a butcher, but rather as a fisherman on his father's boat, the Vito C., a 96-foot easter ...
Nick Stellino grew up in Palermo, on the island of Sicily, and came to the United States in 1975. In 1991, he decided to leave his lucrative career as a Wall Street stockbroker in order to follow his ...
Food Columnist, Eagle-Tribune Pat writes the weekly food column, "Pat's Kitchen." The focus is on home cooking and family recipes. According to Pat, the column is "not just cooking ...
Patrick is the Executive Chef of the Grog restaurant in Newburyport, MA. Patrick, originally from Boca Raton, Florida, perfected his chef skills in restaurants in Florida and other locations around th ...
Paul Bartolotta is the Executive Chef at Bartolotta, Ristorante di Mare at the Wynn Las Vegas. Paul is one of a small number of chefs recognized as an "authentic ambassador" of Italian cu ...
Peter Cusenza is Co-owner and Executive Chef of La Trattoria. Peter had over a decade of experience in Italian restaurants prior to opening La Trattoria. According to their web site the restaura ...
Born in the Czech Republic, Peter attended the Culinary Institute in Prague where he graduated with High Honors for Hotel and Restaurant Management. In 1980, Peter immigrated to the United States at t ...
Robert graduated from Johnson and Wales College in 1984 with his degree in culinary arts. He has since worked for Caesar's Hotel in Lake Tahoe, corporate hotels - including Marriott, Hilton, an ...
Rawbert's journey began in 1994, when he was impassioned by the desire to save the life of his 33-year-old sister-in-law Elizabeth to terminal cancer (she lived 1 1/2 years longer than 2 month dia ...
Chef Ron Abell brings a wealth of culinary experience to his role as Executive Chef for Fenway's Catering Team. He has served under Lydia Shire at Biba, Lucient Robert and Pierre Jamet at Maiso ...
Loved cooking and baking since I was a young girl. Both parents worked, so after school I would cook and bake and experiment with all kinds of food. Biscotti became my passion when I realized I cou ...
Russ Cohen is a professional Wild Food Expert and Environmentalist. Russ is into his fourth decade of leading foraging walks in the Boston area and elsewhere in New England. He received his bachelo ...
Sean has worked in restaurants for 13 years and has developed his skills through hands on experience, reading books, and learning from his mentors. Sean started his career at age 13 at the Belly Bu ...
Sheree DeLorenzo is the General Manager and Co-owner of the Seaport Grille. She has over 20 years' experience as Food & Beverage Manager and General Manager of the Seaport. ...
Stephanie grew up in Connecticut as a latch key kid of two full time working parents. When she got home from school she would do experiments in the kitchen with whatever ingredients she could re ...
Stephanie Sokolove is Owner and Executive Chef of Stephanie's on Newbury and Stephi's on Tremont in Boston, MA. Stephanie has been a food service professional for over 25 years and is highl ...
A Massachusetts native, Chef Ryan started cooking professionally at age 14. He briefly attended Johnson and Wales in Providence, Rhode Island, but basically he learned how to cook in the "school ...
Rendezvous, lodged in Cambridge's former Central Square Burger King, is a culinary fairy tale come true, a restaurant in which skillet-roasted skate wing, preserved lemons and Moroccan spices thri ...
Taylor Wells is an author and founder of Prana Power Yoga. ...
Tom Rafferty is the Owner and Executive Chef of Periwinkles Catering in Ipswich, MA and Executive Chef for Periwinkles Restaurant in Essex, MA. He is a graduate of the Johnson & Wales culinary ...
Co-owner of The Wine ConneXtion, Tina Messina has been in the family business for over 20 years. Her vision to transform the family-owned business, Messina's Liquors, into a "fine wine store ...
Currently executive chef for New England Culinary Institute, Tom Bivins has worked at fine inns in Vermont for the past 17 years. After graduating form Louisiana State University, Tom attended a ...
The best way to describe Tom Johnson's food, according to him, is "comfort food with a flare." Chef Tom Johnson grew up in Gloucester, Massachusetts. His first restaurant jobs include ...
Simplicity is the key to making a lobster roll, said the late Tom Tedesco of the The Lobster Pool, which he bought in 1997 after running concession stands on Cape Ann. In his videos he shows you to ...
From Food for Thought by Food Columnist Heather Atwood: Along with baking their own bao buns and pulling their own fresh mozzarella, Evenfall preserves lemons for a delicious preserved lemon vinaigret ...
Vito Aluia is Baker and Co-owner of Puff! Tarts. After an unsatisfying pie that he paid $40 for, professional photographer Vito began making his own tarts, which he feels are superior anyway becaus ...
Zach Allen is the Executive Chef of B&B Ristorante, Carnevino, and Enoteca San Marco. Zach Allen oversees the kitchens of the three Batali/Bastianich Vegas operations - no doubt, a huge underta ...
Zach Sears found his passion for food at an early age when he began cooking at his Uncle's restaurant in Rockport, Michael's, at the age of 14. He graduated from Northshore Community Colleg ...
Zachari Wilks has been a familiar face behind bars for a little over 15 years. He has pioneered the craft cocktail scene in Indianapolis and acted as catalyst to the growing mixology culture now found ...