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Supper Club: Chef and Guest bios

Thu Jun 05, 2008 02:00 AM ET

CHEF MICHAEL CHIARELLO - Chef Michael Chiarello is the tastemaker behind NapaStyle, Chiarello Family Vineyards, the Emmy winning Food Network series Easy Entertaining, and six cookbooks. The Food Network's Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello, for which Michael co-produced, wrote and starred, has won three daytime Emmy Awards. He is known for his NapaStyle books, specialty foods, cooking shows, and website. NapaStyle, which sends out 12 million sustainable catalogues a year, ten percent post consumer waste. Chiarello farms his own 20 acre organic vineyard, uses biodiesel fuel on his farm, "teaches" his vines to use less water, and his new restaurant Bottega will be 80% green with food grown within 100 miles that he buys directly from the farmer.

 

MARILU HENNER - Marilu Henner is an actress, producer, and New York Times best-selling author. She came to national prominence with her role as Elaine O’Connor-Nardo in the ABC hit television series Taxi. She was the leading lady in the 1984 film Johnny Dangerously with Michael Keaton. She also appeared in Man on the Moon, a film about her Taxi co-star Andy Kaufman, where she played both herself and her Taxi character. Marilu has authored eight books, the most prominent being Total Health Makeover, in which she explains the virtues of a non-dairy diet.

 

DOUG MCINTYRE - Doug McIntyre is the morning host for talk radio station KABC radio in Los Angeles, CA. He has worked as a television writer/ producer for over 20 years. McIntyre is known for his interest in politics, though his social views are less conservative than many of his talk radio colleagues. An amateur historian, McIntyre is an expert on the Wright Brothers, whom he has written about for American Heritage magazine. He is also known for using his program to promote contemporary musicians who work within traditional forms of jazz and song. McIntyre and his wife have written, produced and directed the feature length documentary film, Trying to Get Good: The Jazz Odyssey of Jack Sheldon, currently showing at various film festivals around the world.

 

GRAHAM HILL - Graham Hill is the founder of Treehugger.com. He currently focuses on pushing sustainability into the mainstream through TreeHugger.com, which in 4 short years has become one of the most respected and trafficked environmental sites on the web. Hill and the TreeHugger.com team recently joined the Discovery Communications family of networks as part of its Planet Green multi-platform, global environmental initiative. Additionally, he owns a product business that sells a New York souvenir he designed a few years ago into 150 stores including MOMA. Graham has a Bachelor of Architecture with distinction from Carleton University in Ottawa and did advanced studies in Industrial Design at E.C.I.A.D, Vancouver. Graham has lived all over the world and his guiltiest sin is air travel (offset of course).

 

STEPHANIE MILLER - Stephanie Miller is the host of the syndicated talk radio show, The Stephanie Miller Show, which is broadcasted in six major markets. Stephanie is ranked by Talkers Magazine as one of the most important talk radio hosts in America.

 
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