Gale Gand

Gale Gand, executive pastry chef and partner with Rich Melman and Rick Tramonto of the Five Diamond, four star restaurant TRU in Chicago, was named Outstanding Pastry Chef by The James Beard Foundation and Bon Appétit magazine in 2001. Host of Food Network’s “Sweet Dreams,” Gand is also a cookbook author with six titles. She also has her own rootbeer company producing “Gale’s Rootbeer”. She has a BFA from RIT and attended culinary school at La Varenne in Paris. Gale is married, and has a twelve-year-old son named Gio and 4 year old twin girls, Ella and Ruby .

(Photo by Victor Skrebneski)