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Named one of the country's "top Ten Rising Star Chefs" by John Mariani, chef Kathleen Daelemans' recipes have been showcased in respected food and wine journals including Bon Appetit, Wine Spectator, Gourmet, Food & Wine, and Eating Well.
Not only has Daelemans received praised from the culinary community, but her work is regularly featured in fashion and fitness magazines such as Elle, Shape, Self, Harper's Bazaar, L.A. Style, Fitness, Esquire and House Beautiful. Richard Sax, Roy Yamaguchi and others have showcased Daelemans' recipes in books featuring West Coast, Pacific Rim and American Regional cooking.
When it comes to healthy cooking and eating, Daelemans is "her own best advertisement," having lost 75 pounds when creating a new regional cuisine for one of the world's most luxurious five-star resort and spas, The Grand Wailea, in Maui, Hawaii. While at Café Kula, her restaurant at the resort, Daelemans cooked for and gave private cooking lessons to celebrity guests including Sharon Stone, Kathy Smith, Suzanne Sommers and Paula Abdul.
Daelemans is in constant demand to showcase her celebrated cooking at prestigious local and national food events and benefits. She cooked alongside culinary superstar Wolfgang Puck at the Ritz Carlton's annual Big Island Bounty culinary extravaganza and was invited to cook with five chefs from the United States and France including Joachim Splichal and Gerard Vie, for City-Meals-on-Wheels at New York City's, Tavern on the Green.
Before founding Café Kula, Daelemans began her career in an apprenticeship at Yosemite National Park's four star Ahwahnee Hotel. During her three years there she assisted visiting luminaries such as Larry Forgione, Narsai David, Ken Frank, Joyce Goldstein and Marcel Desaulniers. She then moved to San Francisco's renowned, Zuni Café, where she spent four years working closely with chef/owner, Judy Rodgers, learning the Provencal and Italian techniques that laid the foundation for her unique culinary style.
The slimmed down chef, 75 pounds and counting, is no stranger to television. Daelemans combines her comedic banter and culinary wizardry with a modern sensibility towards good health regularly on NBC's Today. She wrote and hosted a weekly Food Network show, Cooking Thin with Kathleen Daelemans for three seasons.
Daelemans' recently wrote and hosted the highest rated cooking Pledge Special for Public Television this spring and is currently in pre-production for her own series to be distributed by American Public Television.
Daelemans has been featured in several national satellite media campaigns and is active on the national lecture circuit. Her insights, recipes, kitchen tricks and tips enrich and entertain audiences nationwide.
Daelemans is the author of the New York Times best selling cookbook, Cooking Thin with Chef Kathleen: 200 Easy Recipes for Healthy Weight Loss (Houghton Mifflin, 2001), Getting Thin & Loving Food! 200 Easy Recipes to Take You Where You Want to Be (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), and Chef Kathleen's Cooking Thin Daybook: A 52 Week Plan to Lose Weight, Get Fit and Eat Right (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
To provide follow up support to her audiences, Kathleen launched chefkathleen.com (kathleendaelemans.com) in March 2004. The site features recipes, weight loss tips, feature articles on health and fitness and a live forum where Kathleen chats and interacts with fans daily troubleshooting food and health issues. "People need a safe, anonymous place they can go to access support and ask 'the hard questions' in the privacy of their own homes," says Daelemans.
In addition to being able to correspond with Daelemans and a fitness trainer, guests to the site can write to Dr. Dale V. Atkins, Ph.D., a licensed psychologist with more than twenty-five years of experience and a much sought after lecturer and keynote speaker and frequent media expert on such well-known shows as Today, Good Morning America, and Montel.
In addition to regular appearances on NBC's Today, Daelemans has appeared on hundreds of local and national television and radio shows including Oprah, NBC's Dateline, and CNN Headline News.
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