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Recognized in 2001 as Outstanding Pastry Chef of the Year by The James Beard Foundation and Bon Appetit magazine and in 1994 as one of Food & Wine's Top Ten Best New Chefs, Gale Gand was schooled at La Varenne in Paris.
Gand was the host of the long running Food Network's "Sweet Dreams," the first ever all-dessert show for Food Network. She has appeared on "Martha Stewart," "Oprah," "Iron Chef America," "Baking With Julia (Child)," Nickelodeon, judged the 2008 season of Bravo's hit series "Top Chef" and the first season of "Top Chef Just Desserts," "Food Network Challenge" and "Last Cake Standing." She has her own root beer company, Gale's Root Beer producing a cinnamon-ginger-vanilla flavored root beer. In the summer of 2008 two of Gand's desserts were featured at the USA House at the Beijing Olympics and was chosen by Mayor Daley to create the dessert for the President of China's Welcome dinner on his 2011 visit to Chicago.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 national causes including first lady Michelle Obama's Chef's Move To School initiative to help fight childhood obesity, mentoring her alma matre Deerfield High school in Deerfield, Il. She is also involved in many community causes, including Chicago's Green City Market and Art Smith's foundation Common Threads. She frequently leads cooking classes and demonstrations, and teaches pastry and baking after-school at her daughters' middle school. Gale is an executive board member of the Chicago chapter of the AIWF and a long-time member of the James Beard Foundation and Les Dames D'Escoffier.
Gale is married to an environmentalist, Jimmy Seidita, has a 14 year-old son Gio and 6 year-old twins, Ella and Ruby. For more information on Gand, visit www.galegand.com.
Gand was the host of the long running Food Network's "Sweet Dreams," the first ever all-dessert show for Food Network. She has appeared on "Martha Stewart," "Oprah," "Iron Chef America," "Baking With Julia (Child)," Nickelodeon, judged the 2008 season of Bravo's hit series "Top Chef" and the first season of "Top Chef Just Desserts," "Food Network Challenge" and "Last Cake Standing." She has her own root beer company, Gale's Root Beer producing a cinnamon-ginger-vanilla flavored root beer. In the summer of 2008 two of Gand's desserts were featured at the USA House at the Beijing Olympics and was chosen by Mayor Daley to create the dessert for the President of China's Welcome dinner on his 2011 visit to Chicago.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 national causes including first lady Michelle Obama's Chef's Move To School initiative to help fight childhood obesity, mentoring her alma matre Deerfield High school in Deerfield, Il. She is also involved in many community causes, including Chicago's Green City Market and Art Smith's foundation Common Threads. She frequently leads cooking classes and demonstrations, and teaches pastry and baking after-school at her daughters' middle school. Gale is an executive board member of the Chicago chapter of the AIWF and a long-time member of the James Beard Foundation and Les Dames D'Escoffier.
Gale is married to an environmentalist, Jimmy Seidita, has a 14 year-old son Gio and 6 year-old twins, Ella and Ruby. For more information on Gand, visit www.galegand.com.