Maria Liberati

Hatfield, PA

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Travels up to 30 miles

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Overview

Award Winning Celebrity Chef/author provides corporate on stage cooking events, special event meet and greet book signings combined with on stage cooking demos and corporate training events. Live presentations include entertaining audience with storytelling of travel stories from The Basic Art of Italian Cooking, audience engagement.
Events can also include power point presentations, video excerpts from TV appearances, my PBS TV Show.
Cooking demos can include hands on instruction if applicable and if venue provides space.
Culinary cooking events can also include a copy of a book from The Basic Art of Italian Cooking book series for each attendee, goodie bags, or giveaways of books.


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Booking information

Price range: Contact for rates

Languages: English , French , Italian

Gig length: 45 - 180 minutes

Insurance: $1,000,000

What to expect

For appearances that involve a cooking demo, audience members will not only experience the cooking of specific recipes and instruction on the food but also entertaining information on origin of those foods and/or recipes.
During book signings/readings audience members can also interact and ask questions, hear stories from Award Winning Book Series
At each event,each experience can vary depending on the event

About

Former International Suoermodel turned Celebrity Chef and Gourmand World Cookbook Award Winning Author and creator of The Basic Art of Italian Cooking book series. Combining training in nutrition and culinary arts to develop all natural recipes that have an old world flair and combine the old with the new., but are also user friendly. The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm has been granted a registered trademark and is now recognized in many places all over the world, including a Blog read by over 100,000 worldwide subscribers,book series as well as various food products.
With offices in US and Italy, products are developed in an old world,authentic artisan style as in traditional old world Style using the Mediterranean Diet. Books, recipes, products are developed from the The Basic Art of Italian Cooking by Maria Liberati tm test kitchens in Italy.
Personal Appearances include Celebrity Chef at Italian Festivals held all over the world, conventions, festivals, Gourmet food and wine events, TV,radio, vineyards as well as corporate events.

Additional booking notes

If you decide to have live cooking event, please inquire about types of cooking utensils and or equipment needed, however, equipment can be provided for extra fee or may be included depending on the gig.

Set list

*Wine pairing events include entertaining instruction on pairing wine with specific foods, food and wine sampling. If open kitchen is available food can be prepared in front of audience with instruction given on preparing food as well as sampling of food from food demonstration.
*Book signing events can include meet and greet and sampling of recipes from books. Cooking does not have to be done on site. Samples are prepared before event and brought to event.
*Speaking engagements can include speaking on topics ranging from: Healthy eating; finding your roots through your food, Traveling Italy, and/or entertaining talks with audience participation on foods, food history, food art
*Corporate Training Events include involving team participation in a cooking competition to encourage and improve working together skills. End of event includes eating meal.
*Culinary entertaining events can include on stage preparation of foods, storytelling about history of foods and culinary travel stories incorporated into the presentaton

Influences and inspiration

Jacques Pepin, Julia Child

Setup requirements

Cooktop/burners necessary if cooking demo is included in event

Sink/running water -if cooking demo is required

Microphone/poduim-for speaking engagements

hands free microphone for cooking demo

Variety of cooking utensils to be specified upon booking of event

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