Professional Speakers

Gale Gand is scheduled to speak for a Luncheon at a prestigious Country Club in Chicago. The audience will consist of women from the country club and Gale will give a thirty minute presentation followed by a book signing of one of her most recent books. Everyone involved is extremely excited to meet Gale and listen to her speak about her experience in the kitchen!

Recognized in 2001 as Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year by The James Beard Foundation and Bon Appetite magazine and in 1994 as one of Food & Wine’s Top Ten Best New Chefs, executive pastry chef Gale Gand was schooled at La Varenne in Paris before opening Trio, Brasserie T and then later the renowned four-star Mobil, five-diamond AAA, Relais & Chateaux Relais-Gourmand restaurant Tru with culinary partner Rick Tramonto. An accomplished cookbook author with six titles to her credit, including her most recent “Chocolate and Vanilla”, released in late 2006, she is currently working on her next cookbook about brunch, due for release in April 2009.

Gand is the host of the long running Food Network’s “Sweet Dreams,” and has two shows currently in production, “The Heirloom Recipe Project” for PBS and “The Answered Chef”, an online educational cooking series at www.AnswersTV.com . She has been on Martha Stewart and this year judged Bravo’s hit series “Top Chef”. She has her own root beer company and also produces a vanilla cream soda. A supporter of sustainable agriculture, eating locally and the environmental movement, Gand is a member of the National Restaurant Association’s Conserve Initiative Action Council and forages annually for local ramps and mushrooms with her son for her restaurants. She is involved in many community causes, including Art Smith’s foundation, Common Threads, which teaches children racial and cultural diversity through the culinary arts and she is teaches pastry and baking after school to children at her son’s middle school.

In 2006, with Tramonto, she founded Cenitare Restaurants, a restaurant management and development company with four concepts at The Westin Chicago North Shore, including Gale’s Coffee Bar, Osteria di Tramonto, Tramonto’s Steak & Seafood and RT Lounge. Most recently she consulted on and opened an upscale cupcake bakery, MORE, in Chicago. Gale is married to an environmentalist, Jimmy Seidita, has a son named Gio and twins, Ella Nora and Ruby Grace.

For more information on Gale Gand, please call Brooks International at 303-825-8700.