DENISE VIVALDOan award-winning food stylist and instructor, is a professionally trained chef with more than eighteen years experience teaching and consulting in all areas of the culinary and hospitality industry. As a food stylist, Denise has worked on nationally televised shows, infomercials, movies, cookbooks, and many cooking series. In her work as a creative consultant she has developed original recipes for cookbooks, many of them New York Times Best Sellers. Denise was awarded the UCLA Extension Outstanding Instructor Award for the Culinary Arts Program two years in a row, and has recently worked on two awarding-winning cookbooks: Eat, Taste, Heal and The Private Chef. Her work also garnered her the IACP’s Food Stylist Award for Commercial Art and Food Photography in 2003.

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Denise Vivaldo is a professional Chef de Cuisine with more than fifteen years experience in all areas of the food industry. Chef Vivaldo started her culinary training at The Ritz Escoffier and La Varenne in Paris, and then returned to her native San Francisco to graduate from the California Culinary Academy in 1984. Recognized as a respected food professional, her expertise ranges from food styling for print and television to innovative menu conception and recipe development.


Denise's latest Book: Do It For Less Parties

Following graduation from the California Culinary Academy, Denise served as the kitchen manager for Charter Concepts International, a worldwide yacht chartering company where she implemented successful cost-cutting product purchases, resulting in reduced food cost of more than twenty percent in her first year. Transferring to the sister-company, she accepted the position as Executive Chef at California Celebrations within the first year. She orchestrated special events on exotic locations with both international menus and celebrity guests.

Denise's best selling catering book:
How to Start a Home-Based
Catering Business, now in it's 5th edition.
In 1988, Denise founded Food Fanatics, a full-service catering company, where she received commissions for such prestigious events as the Academy Awards Governor's Ball, Macy's/American Express's Passport, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Sunset Magazine's Tastes of Sunset, and Los Angeles Magazine's Taste of LA. In addition, Chef Vivaldo has catered and coordinated post-premiere and "wrap" parties for many Hollywood films.
In recent years, Denise has stepped away from catering to devote her time to print and media food styling and recipe development for innovative new culinary products as well as numerous cookbooks by well-known celebrities including Suzanne Somers and Richard Simmons. Her exceptional work and practically applied ideas as the food stylist on many nationally-televised shows has earned her a reputation as a consummate professional. Some of the shows Ms Vivaldo has worked on as a food stylist are Inside Dish with Rachel Ray on TV Food Network, The Ellen Degeneres Show on NBC, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on NBC, Donny and Marie on Fox Television, and Method and Red on Fox Television. She was also the culinary producer of Fine Living's NapaStyle with Michael Chiarello. As an entertaining expert Denise has appeared on Fox's Good Day Live with Steve Edwards, Home and Garden's Smart Solutions, and Before and After'Noon Movies on USA.
In addition to her busy schedule as a food stylist, Denise is the chef and representative for Bon Appetit magazine's cooking demonstrations, "Bon Appetit on Location," held at the Macy's Del Amo and South Coast Plaza stores in Southern California. She adds "Bon Appetit on Location" to her list of demonstration classes that include events at Bloomingdale's, Neiman-Marcus, and features on Home and Garden Television. Chef Vivaldo has also spent numerous years as a professor at UCLA's Culinary Program and at her alma mater, the California Culinary Academy.
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