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How to Start a Home-based Personal Chef Business (Home-Based Business Series) 2nd edition by Vivaldo, Denise (2011) Paperback Paperback

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You don't have to go to culinary school to become a personal chef -- a passion for cooking and good business skills are all you need to get started right away. This book provides all the business savvy for the successful launch of a personal chef business.

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Denise Vivaldo

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A classically trained chef, Denise founded Food Fanatics in 1988, a catering, recipe-development, and food-styling firm based in Los Angeles, California. In 2012 Denise rebranded her company as the Denise Vivaldo Group.

As a consultant, food stylist, and culinary producer with over 30 years experience, Denise has helped with numerous television productions, infomercials, food manufacturers, grocery stores chains, restaurants, publishers, authors and celebrities with their projects and products.

Denise is a popular contributing blogger to the Huffington Post as well as her own blog, Denise Vivaldo Blogs. She also teaches food styling, catering and cooking classes and workshops in a multitude of locations across the country and internationally. She has been a featured guest expert on many television shows.

Denise is the author of eight books:

The Food Styling Handbook, winner of numerous awards and considered to be the food styling bible. New edition Spring 2017!

How to Start a Home-Based Catering Business, which has sold more than 150,000 copies and is in its 6th edition.

How to Start a Home-Based Personal Chef Business, now in it’s 2nd edition.

The Entertaining Encyclopedia, and its companion book Perfect Table Settings.

Do It For Less! Parties, and Do It For Less! Weddings, entertaining books with quantity recipes.

The Top 100 Napkin Folds.

Visit Denise's websites for more information:

www.DeniseVivaldo.com Culinary consulting services

www.DeniseVivaldoGroup.com Food styling, recipe testing, cookbook consulting, and more!

www.CulinaryEntrepreneurship.com Food styling classes

www.DeniseVivaldoBlogs.com Denise's culinary blog

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Elaine M. Bryant

This well written publication will set me on the right path for a culinary future.

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2021

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I am taking up culinary arts and operations online and this publication will allow me to seek avenues to do what I love and get paid doing it. People have to eat.

Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2014

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This book is a great resource for anyone interested in starting a food business. It covers all of the basics thoroughly by someone who has been in the business and knows what talking about. Great starter guide, gives good guidance.

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Joy Q. King

A must have for anyone wishing to become a personal Chef.

Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2012

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This book gives you all the details you need to know to start in your personal chef business. There is a walk thru on how to even complete your business plan. I would like to see the next revision include. A cd with recipes and forms to get started with. I also bought Denise's party planning book and the knowledge I acquired from both was unbelievable.

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Personal chef

Reviewed in the United States on November 15, 2018

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Muy completa la información

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Coda

If you get this book it is much better as a book than a kindle

Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2016

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If you get this book it is much better as a book than a kindle. I had not realized how much of it I would want to refer back to, and, the kindle just does not give me the ease I could wish for.

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M.T.

Great buy if you have no idea whatsoever about party ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2015

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It is an ok book. I gave it 4 stars because it is very well presented, but content is more or less obvious. Great buy if you have no idea whatsoever about party planning.

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Jwolf

Clunky and disappointing recipes

Reviewed in the United States on February 7, 2016

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I bought this book because I was hoping to get more information about the actual process of being a personal chef. While there was some useful information regarding setting up your kitchen to go, it really didn't give me any insight into what the business itself might look like.

The book had many interviews from personal chefs, but there were so many conflicting ways people handled different items that it was confusing instead of being helpful.

Perhaps most disappointing was the recipes section. The recipes themselves weren't bad, but where are the packaging and reheating instructions?? These were just straight up recipes, many of them stating, "Serve immediately." How am I supposed to do that? It flies directly in the face of her stated 5x4 standard service. I know how to cook and serve food immediately. What I would think many people considering a personal chef business would need insight on is how to choose items that store and reheat well.

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Grace Del Rio Evans

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2017

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