celebrity chefs
 

Sonoma County is blessed with some of the most talented top executive chefs in the country. At this popular event, you will have the privilege of meeting three favorites who will share their expertise and recipes with you.

If you would like more information about participating as a celebrity chef, please send your biography and/or resume to Linda J. Johnson at rotarylinda@sbcglobal.net or fax to 707-829-6306. 

 
Our Celebrity Chefs of 2009
 
 
chef Condra Easley

Owner of Patisserie Angelica, Chef Condra Easley received her formal training at several prestigious pastry shops in Paris including Fauchon with Pierre Herme and la Maison du Chocolat. Her educational background includes studies at Cacoa Barry School in France, Callebaut College in Belgium and skills classes with the British Sugar Craft Guild in England. Chef Easley is an adjunct instructor for the Culinary Institute of America at Greystone in St. Helena. She teaches advanced decoration and wedding cake design to professional chefs.
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In addition to being a renowned chef, author, and food and wine educator, many refer to Chef John Ash as the “Father of Wine Country Cuisine.” In 1980, he opened his namesake restaurant, John Ash & Company, in Santa Rosa, CA. It was the first restaurant in Northern California wine country to focus on local, seasonal ingredients used to create dishes that complemented the wines being made in the region. It continues to be critically acclaimed today.
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Larry Vito When Larry Vito caters an event, he brings to the table the same passion that garnered him the honor of being chosen as executive chef of San Francisco's Mobile Five Star rated Stanford Court Hotel. He has catered hundreds of elegant weddings, dinner parties and major wine and food events throughout the Bay Area. He has traveled extensively as a guest chef, speaker and teacher throughout the United States, Europe, Asia, and Central America. He has been favorably reviewed and featured in stories in The New York Times, Gourmet Magazine, San Francisco Chronicle, L.A. Times, Oakland Examiner, San Jose Mercury News, The Marin Independent Journal, Sunset Magazine, The Wine Spectator and a variety of other local, national and international publications.
   
Chef Jeff Young Chef Jeff Young of Alexander Valley Vineyard, the Wetzel Family Estate’s first resident chef, originally came to Sonoma County as a boy, spending summers and winter weekends at his grandfather’s “River House.” Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, Chef Young’s cooking style reflects his cosmopolitan, Californian roots.
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