Carlo Soranno
Chef Carlo Soranno hails from Queens, New York. He began his culinary journey at an early age learning simple Italian preparations from his mother and grandmother. Chef Carlo is a founding partner and the Executive Chef of My Chef Direct. Along with business partner Amanda Jaffe, he has brought together a talented team of chefs and food experts to create the ultimate consulting group for creating lavish dinner parties, providing weekly meal services, and instructing private or group cooking lessons.
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Tytania Rose
The world has certainly been Chef Tytania Rose’s oyster in her pursuit to master the art of fusion cooking. Pairing a love of travel with a passionate interest in vegetarian, macrobiotic and organic cooking, Tytania has taken cooking classes and done extensive study in Tulum, Mexico, Chiang Mai, Thailand, Bali, and Japan.
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Melissa Petitto
With a Jewish mother and an Italian father, Melissa Petitto was raised around an eclectic collection of food in the unlikely city of Birmingham, Al. With two seemingly diverse cultures that center life around the kitchen, Petitto gained an early appreciation for food and its impact on a person’s life. However throughout elementary and high school Petitto was convinced that ballet was her passion and her future. Then while still in high school, Petitto apprenticed with world-renowned chef Frank Stitt at Highlands Bar and Grill, and she was smitten with a new and familiar passion for cooking and for food.
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Stefanie Bryn Sacks
Stefanie Bryn Sacks, M.S., a Culinary Nutritionist, works hands-on with individuals in transition to a healthier way of eating as a food counselor, nutrition educator and chef instructor. In 1999, she created Nutricook, a program to help prevent illness and restore health through personalized nutrition therapy and culinary guidance. Stefanie’s knowledge and skills as a professional chef and nutritionist enables her to address many health conditions. She is affiliated with New York City’s Beth Israel Continuum Center for Health and Healing and the Eleven Eleven Wellness Center as well as many prominent New York doctors practicing integrative medicine.
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Matthew Fulton
Raised in Mentor, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland, Matthew Fulton first experienced the culinary world at the age of eleven after reading a recipe for applesauce and making it for his mother. He took the reins as home cook at an early age, which lead him to Pennsylvania Culinary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he graduated at the top of his class in 2000.
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Louis Bavaro
Is delighted to join the My Chef Direct team! Louis was born, raised and currently lives on Long Island, but was a resident of Manhattan for 20 years. He started his adult life as a live entertainment marketing professional, working on Broadway and off-Broadway shows like Angels in America, Once on this Island, Guys and Dolls, The Heiress, Carousel, A Delicate Balance, Arcadia, Oleanna, In The Continuum, and Parade, among countless others. One wintery day, he decided it was time for a career change. So he decided to pursue his other passion – cooking – and enrolled in the Italian Culinary Academy where he studied in New York City and Italy, and then worked at a Michelin-rated restaurant in the gorgeous Italian region of Puglia.
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Evan Madden-Peister
Evan Madden-Peister was born and raised on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. At an early age he was exposed to and influenced by the many cuisines that New York City has to offer; French, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Japanese, Moroccan, Brazilian, Dominican, Mexican, Ethiopian, and the classic Jewish cuisine of the Lower East Side—they all played a role in shaping his love for merging tastes, textures, and seasonal ingredients to create his own unique culinary style.
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