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The 4th Annual

LOS ANGELES LUXURY CHOCOLATE SALON

October 10th 2010, 11am-5pm

2009 PANELISTS OR SPEAKER	BIOS	SALON ROLE
Kat Odell Eater LA	Bio Coming soon. www.EaterLA.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Richard Guzman LA Downtown News	Bio Coming soon downtownnews.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Lucy Lean Edible LA	Bio Coming soon www.EdibleLA.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Merv Hecht Santa Monica Daily Press	Bio Coming soon www.smdp.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Allen H. Lin Chubbypanda.com OCFoodBlogs.com	A fan of all things gastronomic, Chubbypanda has been eating his way though the bounty of Southern California for the past ten years. As a staunch support of small, local businesses, he firmly believes that every community has its own unique edible treasures waiting to be discovered. All it requires is a sense of adventure and a passion for food. Eating should be fun! www.Chubbypanda.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Hadley Tomicki GrubStreet LA	Bio Coming soon www:losangeles.grubstreet.com
Jane Park Smith Ms America	Often called the “food fairy,” Jane enjoys refined food to the nth degree. Her culinary appreciation started early as her brother, Jason Park, is a restauranteur with an acclaimed flagship establishment www.maruvalencia.com. Her artistic inclinations don’t end with food, however, as she has been seen in shows from Reno 911, Bones, 24, as well as films, including Quarantine and Street Warrior. A UCLA alum, Jane is also dedicated to volunteerism, speaking out for the voiceless and oppressed. She has served as a spokesperson for The Katrina Family Relocation Project and has raised support for Kenyan orphans as one of Global Volunteer Network's official Ambassador. Be sure to check out www.eatsotheycan.org. So, with diverse interests, why the “food fairy?” “I can’t help but share my love of food with my friends. So, gifting-away little food packages of homemade or storebought treats are a perfect way to show ‘em I love ‘em!..and there is almost always super dark, dark chocolate involved!” www.janeparksmith.com www.janeparksmith.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Amy Scattergood Food blog editor LA Weekly	Bio Coming soon blogs.laweekly.com/squidink
Tina Hashioka Epicurean School of Culinary Arts	Bio Coming soon www.EpicureanSchool.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Maya Meinert Shop Eat Sleep	Maya Meinert writes ShopEatSleep.com, a blog that covers retail, dining, hotels and travel. Based in Los Angeles, Maya has also written for the Los Angeles Business Journal, Los Angeles Daily Journal, Santa Monica Daily Press, Los Angeles magazine and Giant Robot magazine. www.ShopEatSleep.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Colleen Dunn Bates Eat-LA.com	Colleen Dunn Bates is the editor and publisher at Prospect Park Books and a longtime food and travel journalist. She’s the editor and/or co-author of EAT: Los Angeles, Hometown Pasadena, Hometown Santa Monica, Mammoth from the Inside and Storybook Travels. She writes about restaurants for Westways, was the longtime restaurant critic for L.A. Style, and has written for many national and regional magazines. A sixth-generation Southern Californian, Colleen lives in Pasadena. www.Eat-LA.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Stacey V. Bowers-Bolden Author, The Clubs of LA Screenwriter	Bio Coming Soon Book out in Fall 2009 From TCB Cafe Publishing	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Sarah Feinbloom Director & Producter "Searching for the Heart of Chocolate"	Sarah Feinbloom is an award-winning filmmaker whose work includes documentaries, dramatic narrative, and fundraising videos. Her films on the religious lives of teenagers, and child-trafficking in Thailand have been featured on NPR and PBS stations, and shown nationally and internationally. She thoroughly enjoyed making her latest film, a chocumentary-Searching for the Heart of Chocolate, which involved lots of taste-testing and sampling. View "Searching for the Heart of Chocolate" Trailer A delicious romp through the rich and creamy, melt in your mouth, passionate world of chocolate. Follow filmmaker Sarah Feinbloom as she searches for the origins of her chocolate obsession, interviewing chocolate enthusiasts along the way, delving into chocolate cake, art, fantasy, chocolate croissants, spirituality, sex, love and hot fudge, and journeying to the past to uncover chocolate’s place in our hearts. Articles about Sarah SF Chronicle	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Cherie Mercer Twohy Chez Cherie Cooking School	Cherie is the author of "The I Love Trader Joe's Cookbook" published September 2009 by Ulysses Press. Cherie Mercer Twohy owns Chez Cherie Cooking School in La Canada, CA where the motto is "Laughter is brightest where food is best." She combines her love for food and teaching with a sense of fun that encourages students to relax and enjoy their time in the kitchen. Her interests in food and travel have inspired culinary tours and trips, including a recent tour of Tuscany that culminated in a private lesson by Paul de Bondt, one of Europe's finest chocolatiers. Cherie is recognized as a Certified Culinary Professional by the International Association of Culinary Professionals www.chezcherie.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Amy Reiley Master of Gastronomy, Le Cordon Bleu Author of Fork Me, Spoon Me: the sensual cookbook Creator of EatSomethingSexy.com	Amy Reiley has a passion for food and wine that far surpasses connoisseur status. She is the America’s foremost expert on Aphrodisiacs and was one of the first Americans to earn a Master of Gastronomy awarded by France’s culinary temple, Le Cordon Bleu. She has published two books - Fork Me, Spoon Me: the sensual cookbook, and Chile Aphrodisia that introduced the American public to the sensual art of cooking. As an internationally recognized journalist, Amy has shared her food and wine knowledge to such publications as Sunset, The Wine News and Marie Claire magazine. Now Amy has taken her passion home, building a state-of-the-art-kitchen classroom to hold private cooking lessons in her Los Angeles home! www.forkmespoonme.com	Salon Tasting Panel / Book Author Signing
Javier Cabral teenageglutster.blogspot.com	Food, punk, angst, hormones and a really, really fast metabolism" is the concept behind the "Teenage Glutster" food blog. Since the angry and bored age of fifteen--starting with a fascination of his never ending growth in his height--Javier has had a burning consumer passion/obsession with anything and everything relating to food, drink its history and technicalities. East L.A born and bred, it was in his tranferring of High Schools where he discovered just how awesome food really is and how much its taken for granted. While the rest of his preppy classmates would swarm to the nearest burger dispensary afterschool, he would walk aimlessly collecting take out menu's from regional ethnic restaurants. He currently is taking as many local Culinary Arts, Baking and English classes as he can while balancing playing in back yard punk shows and being on the fencing team. His imminent domain is NYU for their "Food Studies" program as he wishes to someday, somehow make a living with anything really relating to food and writing. teenageglutster.blogspot.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Andrew Seely Melts in Your Pocket	Andrew Seely is the host and creator of Melts In Your Pocket a web based chocolate bar review show. Twice a week, Andrew asks what makes good chocolate so good. The short format of the show allows for quick, honest reviews of different chocolate bars. Andrew encourages his viewers to trust their own pallette and make their own decisions about what they like without worrying about what the "experts" think. Above all, Andrew desires for his viewers to discover and live out their passions, whatever they may be. Andrew lives in Los Angeles and dabbles in many different things, from the tech industry, video games, cooking, journalism, producing web shows, and being a foodie on the side. www.meltsinyourpocket.com	Speaker / Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Clemence Gossett Gourmandise Desserts	Bio Coming soon www.gourmnandisedesserts.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Liz Steinhart www.foodshethought.com	Bio Coming soon www.foodshethought.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Miles Clements www.eatfoodwith.me	Miles Clements writes about food for the Los Angeles Times, the District Weekly and others. He is also a contributing editor to Eat: Los Angeles. In his spare time, he tests the limits of his metabolism for his blog, Eat Food With Me. www.eatfoodwith.me	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Susan Reservation For Three	Bio Coming soon reservationforthree.blogspot.com/	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Andrea Lowell Reality Television Star The Surreal Life on VH1 TV Host	Andrea Lowell, most known for her Playboy and VH1 appearances is currently the host of "The Playboy Morning Show" on SIRIUS and XM 99. Her love for food and wine is well known, and she will be sharing her culinary passions for the second year with us, at the Luxury Chocolate Salon VH-1.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Linden Goh Actor / Director	Linden has worked in the US, Asia and Australia for directors such as Francis Ford Coppola, Jackie Chan and Alex Proyas. His credits include a recent guest role on THE WEST WING, the US films COUNTERSTRIKE for Lions Gate and FRANCIS FORD COPPOLA'S DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE for American Zoetrope, Jackie Chan's NEW POLICE STORY, the Japanese feature ACRI for Sony Pictures, and numerous Australian film and TV projects including SINGAPORE SLING, WATER RATS, G.P., HOME AND AWAY, PIZZA and BREAKERS, as well as theatre, award-winning short films, industrials, TVCs and radio. www.lindengoh.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Jackie Keller Founder, NutriFit	Jackie Keller, is the Founding Director of NutriFit, LLC, nutrition and wellness coach, educator and culinary expert, author of Body After Baby, A Simple, Healthy Plan to Lose Your Baby Weight Fast (Avery/Penguin Group; May 2007), and Cooking, Eating & Living Well, a cookbook and guide to nutrition-related lifestyle change. www.nutrifitonline.com www.jackiekeller.com	Speaker / Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Todd and Diane White on Rice Couple	Bio Coming soon See Video whiteonricecouple.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Rachel Rifat Chocolate Snob Blog	Rachel Rifat is devoted to luxury and gratification of the senses as a result of her experience in the food production industry. Currently, she presides over a chocolate appreciation society and her time is spent discovering the world's most fabulous chocolates. In addition, she runs chocolate tasting courses and advises many top chocolatiers. Rachel’s chocolate-snob blog reveals her brutal honesty and adventurous spirit that has created passionate gastronomes around the world. With irreverence she states, “Life is too short for bad chocolate.” Rachel has written How to Make Out in the Supply Room that will be published by Running Press (2008). In 1999, she was awarded the title, Los Angeles Business Woman of the Year. She has been published and written about in The Wall Street Journal, People Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, and The Los Angeles Times. She speaks French, Chinese, and Spanish. www.chocolate-snob.com www.chocolate-snob.blogspot.com	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Chef Darrell Folck, CEC California School of Culinary Arts	Bio Coming soon www.csca.edu	Speaker / Chocolate Chef Competition
Saige Ryan Campbell Actress	At the tender age of 13, Saige Ryan Campbell is a veteran of over 30 national commercials including Kodak, McDonalds, Mr. Clean and Crayola, she is most recognized as the little girl who asks her father why he folds his peanut butter sandwich over in the Jif Peanut Butter commercial. Her first professional job was on a Scooby Doo commercial. Saige's films include Lime Salted Love, All I Want for Christmas (for which she received a Young Artist Award nomination), Frankenhood, I Heart Huckabees where she played Mark Wahlberg's daughter, and her starring role as Libby in the psychological thriller Believers, a Warner Bros.’ release (for which she also garnered a Young Artist Award nomination). A staple on episodic television, she has appeared on such shows as House, Without A Trace, Entourage, The Guardian, Nip/Tuck and Passions as well as many others. Her voice can be heard on many national commercials including Kentucky Fried Chicken, Walmart and Hotels.	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
Dave Shelton film/television/ writer	Dave Shelton, film/television/music writer/director/cartoonist/voice over actor whose credits include: Senior Writer and cartoonist for National Lampoon, writer and creator of Hackidu from Everybody Loves Raymond, starring voice for the animated series Alien House, creator/director/writer of the sitcom Against Type (starring Terminator Salvation's Roland Kickinger and ICarly's Jennette McCurdy), creator of the upcoming series Snuggy Bear and the T-Shirt Kids(c) and writer of the upcoming films Nightmare Carnival, Exit 172 and Shrieking Violet, all to star Saige Ryan Campbell. Former cartoonist of Tweety and Sylvestor. His voice work has been heard on the Sci-Fi Channel and Nickelodeon.	Salon Awards Tasting Panel
A.K. Crump TasteTV and ChocolateTelevision	Founder of TasteTV, author of "Chocolate French, " "The Chocolate Guide," and "The Cafes of San Francisco" www.TasteTV.com Listen to A.K. Crump SF International Chocolate Salon Interview on KGO Radio - Dining Around with Gene Burns	Salon Tasting Panel / Book Author Signing

2009
SPEAKER and PRESENTATION SCHEDULE

subject to change

Time	Presentations and Demos	Presenter


Sun 11:45am	Chocolate Technology	Chef Darrell Folck, CEC California School of Culinary Arts
Sun 12:30pm	Chocolate Making Demonstration	Sue Norris Happy Chocolates
Sun 1:15pm	Chocolate Television "Meetup Mash" TCHO Chocolate Interview and Q&A , Moderated by Andrew Seely of the "Melts in your Pocket" chocolate video blog	Los Angeles Area Chocolate Meetup
Sun 2:00pm	Health and Chocolate	Jackie L. Keller NutriFit
Sun 2:45pm	Chocolate Spa Demonstration	Lisa Francoise Schafer Owner and Spa Chocolatier Sweet Beauty
Sun 3:30pm	Chocolate Making Demonstration	Ed Engoron Choclatique
Sun 4:15pm	Sensual Chocolate Demonstration and BookSigning	Amy Reiley, Author of Fork Me, Spoon Me: the sensual cookbook Creator of EatSomethingSexy.com