Daniel Boulud

Executive chef and owner of Manhattan's award-winning "DANIEL", "Cafe Boulud", and "DB Bistro Moderne", named "Chef of the Year" by Bon Appetit Magazine, author of several cook books, own line of professional kitchenware. As Chef-Owner of some of the country's finest restaurants, author of numerous cookbooks and creator of kitchenware and gourmet products, Daniel Boulud's beginnings on his family's farm near Lyon may seem a distant past. Yet that past, rooted in the rhythms of the seasons, produce fresh from the fields and fine home cooking have paved the road to Boulud's becoming one of America's leading culinary authorities. After his nomination as best cooking apprentice in France, Daniel went on to train under the renowned Chefs who would become his mentors: Roger Verge, Georges Blanc and Michel Guerard. Now Boulud himself serves as a mentor to the talented young cooks he has been working with here in the United States for almost twenty-five years