Wheat has been part of the human diet for millions of years. Why are people now having problems with it?
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File code_delicious/1640cd3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker John Douillard, DC
- Organization Eat Wheat
- Book Title Eat Wheat
- Guest Website LifeSpa
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/dr.john.douillard
- Guest Twitter Account @JohnDouillard
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Guest Bio
Dr. John Douillard, DC, CAP, is a globally recognized leader in the fields of natural health, Ayurveda, and sports medicine. He is the creator of LifeSpa.com, the leading Ayurvedic health and wellness resource on the web with over 4.5 million views on YouTube.
LifeSpa.com is evolving the way Ayurveda is understood around the world, with over 700 articles and videos proving ancient wisdom with modern science. Dr. John is the former Director of Player Development for the New Jersey Nets NBA team, author of seven health books including his newest, Eat Wheat, a repeat guest on The Dr. Oz Show, and featured in Woman’s World Magazine, Huffington Post, Yoga Journal and dozens of other publications.
He has been helping patients repair their digestive system and eat wheat and dairy again for 30 years, has seen over 100,000 patients, and directs LifeSpa, the 2013 Holistic Wellness Center of the year in Boulder, CO. - Length (mins) 23:18
- Waiver Received No
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File code_delicious/1643cd3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 26:16
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Do you love spicy foods but they don't love you back? Check out these tips for getting the flavor without the digestive havoc.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File code_delicious/1640cd3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Ronaldo Linares, Chef
- Guest Website Ronaldo Linares
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/ChefRonaldolinares
- Guest Bio Ronaldo Linares is a Cuban/Colombian/American, salsa-dancing, MMA-fighting, Cross Fit training, former U.S. Marine, classically trained chef and restaurateur living his dream. Born in Colombia during the turbulent Cartel wars of the 1980s, cooking has been the main ingredient in Ronaldo’s journey from young immigrant to rebellious teen to successful chef and media personality. Ronaldo has showcased his Cuban-inspired, passion-infused culinary style on Food Network’s Chopped, BBC America’s cross-country chef competition Chef Race, and appearances on Better TV, Fox News and Telemundo. When not in the kitchen, Ronaldo is active in the community, speaking to schools, youth groups and corporations about his life's journey and healthy living.
- Length (mins) 25:57
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
NET cancer presents symptoms similar to IBS. Find out what to look for before it's too late.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File code_delicious/1645cd1a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Hal Gerstein, MD
- Organization NET Cancer Awareness
- Guest Website Cancer Institute of Long Island
- Guest Bio Dr. Hal Gerstein is a former Clinical Instructor at NYU Medical School, Founding President of LI Oncology Network and a Senior Attending Physician at North Shore University Hospital. He is a medical oncologist based in Great Neck, New York. He has been treating NET patients for over a decade.
- Length (mins) 24:41
- Waiver Received No
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Learn the best foods for optimal brain health.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 2
- Audio File code_delicious/1639cd3b.mp3
- Featured Speaker Judi & Shari Zucker
- Book Title The Memory Diet-More than 150 Healthy Recipes for the Proper Care and Feeding of Your Brain
- Guest Website The Double Energy Twins
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/TheDoubleEnergyTwins
- Guest Twitter Account @dblenergytwins
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Guest Bio
Judi and Shari Zucker, known as The Double Energy Twins, are best selling authors of seven published books on Health and Nutrition, including their latest book, The Memory Diet-More than 150 Healthy Recipes for the Proper Care and Feeding of Your Brain (New Page Books).
Judi and Shari have degrees in Nutrition and Physical Education (Ergonomics) from The University of California, Santa Barbara. Judi and Shari are media favorites, as seen on National Television Shows as The Today Show and Home and Family. The Zucker Twins are contributing writers for Family Life Magazine, and derma e skin care newsletter. They lecture all over the country on How to Double Your Energy Naturally and The Memory Diet-How to Properly Care and Feed Your Brain. The Zucker Twins have toured the Country as Media Spokespeople for General Mill’s “Snack Sense.” They volunteer teach Natural Foods Cooking Classes to elementary schools, they are YouTube favorites doing e-how videos on healthful cooking, and they were chosen by the community to be honored on a local TV show called Community Heroes (which can be seen on their web site www.doubleenergytwins.com). Judi and Shari wrote their first book when they were 16 years old (How to Survive Snack Attacks…Naturally! Woodbridge Press) and since then have been committed to educating others on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle.
Shari is married to Daniel Kilstofte, owner of a High Tech Company and they have three children, twin sons, Max and Miles (who are the fifth straight generation of twins in the family) and a daughter, Mattea. Judi is married to Chris Mjelde, a dentist, and they have two children, a daughter, Taryn and son, Tanner. - Length (mins) 28:10
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 4
- Audio File code_delicious/1639cd3d.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 24:14
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Find out how wine is made and how to pick the right wine for your tastes.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 1
- Audio File code_delicious/1639cd3a.mp3
- Featured Speaker Bruce Cakebread, COO of Cakebread Cellars
- Organization Cakebread Cellars
- Guest Website Napa Valley Vintners
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Guest Bio
Bruce Cakebread, President and Chief Operating Officer of Cakebread Cellars, is responsible for overseeing day-to-day operations of the winery, the family vineyards and all grower relations.
Discussing the Cakebread family’s philosophy of winemaking over the past 35+ years, Bruce says, “Our goal has been to work with our vineyards to gain the full potential of quality from each vine allowing us to create the finest wines possible. We want our wines to be balanced, elegant and complex with a fine finish that fits seamlessly into any meal or any occasion.”
Bruce first studied Pomology (Tree Fruits) at California Polytechnic University in San Luis Obispo. When he decided to enter the family business he transferred to the Viticulture and Enology program at the University of California at Davis, where in 1978, he received his degree in Enology. After working alongside his father since the winery was founded in 1973, Bruce assumed the winemaking position in 1979 until 2002 when he became president and COO. - Length (mins) 20:56
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File code_delicious/1639cd3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 20:13
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Neuroendocrine tumors can cause digestive issues. Find out more about this manageable cancer.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 5
- Audio File code_delicious/1639cd3e.mp3
- Featured Speaker Cindy Lovelace, Executive Director, Healing NET Foundation
- Guest Website The Healing NET Foundation
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/healingnetfoundation
- Guest Twitter Account @HealingNET1
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Guest Bio
Cindy Francis Lovelace began a radio news career in Nashville at WKDA-WKDF in 1979, serving as a Capitol Hill reporter, then Program Director/News Anchor. In 1995, she became Director of Promotions at WKDF/WGFX radio, and was promoted to Director of Marketing and Promotions for WKDF/WGFX/Titans Radio when the company purchased the rights to Tennessee Titans Radio Network in 1998.
During her radio career, Lovelace launched several large scale concert events involving national artists, and worked with the Nashville Convention and Visitor’s Bureau to help re-brand the Music City July 4 event. In 2010, after 32 years in the broadcast business, she launched a business as an event marketing consultant.
In 2011, she accepted a position as Director of Development for the T. J. Martell Foundation office in Nashville, a national organization that raises monies for cancer research. She led the organization’s efforts in Nashville to raise $2 million over a two year period, chiefly through artist-related events.
Lovelace was diagnosed the same year with neuroendocrine (NET) cancer due to an incidental scan. She was already a breast cancer survivor (2005) and expected a protocol for treatment, but her oncologist had no information. Following surgery to resect the tumor in her pancreas, she learned six months later that Steve Jobs died after battling NET cancer. Lovelace literally found Dr. Eric Liu in a google search that night, learning he was in the same city and had opened a NET clinic at Vanderbilt Ingram Cancer Center. Not only did she learn a lot about the cancer, she was one of the first patients to participate in the first Gallium 68 clinical trial opened by Dr. Liu in the U. S. This scan revealed additional tumors in her liver, which are now managed with a combination of surgery and medicine. Lovelace teamed up with Dr. Liu to co-found The Healing NET Foundation (HNF), which funds programs to better educate the general medical community about NET cancer, and empowers patients to advocate for their care through the health system. Dr. Liu is the Chief Medical Advisor of HNF, and is now affiliated with The Neuroendocrine Institute at Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers (RMCC) in Denver, CO.
Lovelace was recently named one of six nominees for the Hero of Hope™ Patient Award given by CONQUER: The Patient Voice™ magazine in partnership with the Academy of Oncology of Nurse & Patient Navigators® (AONN) in recognition of her commitment to the cancer patient community in spite of obstacles as a patient.
Lovelace and her husband Gene reside in Old Hickory, Tennessee (Nashville area) and together have four children, four grandchildren, and enjoy travel, and sailing on the lakes of Tennessee and Kentucky.
- Length (mins) 23:35
- Waiver Received Yes
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster
Chef Luca Paris joins Dr. Mike to discuss his latest savory recipe.
Additional Info
- Segment Number 3
- Audio File code_delicious/1633cd3c.mp3
- Featured Speaker Luca Paris, Chef
- Organization Luca's Cafe
- Guest Website Luca Paris
- Guest Facebook Account www.facebook.com/luca.paris
- Guest Twitter Account @chefluca
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Guest Bio
Gianluca Paris is the Executive Chef and owner of Luca’s Mediterranean Café, a fine dining restaurant, The Market at Luca’s, offering light bistro style fare and gourmet take out and Luca's Culinary Journey Catering in Keene, New Hampshire, where he lives with his wife Lindy and his two children. He is the recipient of many accolades, including “Excellence in Dining” and “Best Service/Wait staff” every year since 2002 from Market Surveys of America, along with “Best Mediterranean Restaurant,” “Best Fine Dining Restaurant,” “Best Caterer in New Hampshire,” and, for four years, “Best Restaurant in the Monadnock Region” from New Hampshire Magazine.
Luca, as he is known to everyone, had a dream of opening his own restaurant since starting as a busboy at a family style Irish pub in New York at the age of 14. Having been born in Italy, it would have to be a Mediterranean style restaurant and he never lost sight of his dream. He graduated from Johnson & Wales University 1989, where he met his wife of 22 years.
He began his professional career at Doral Arrowwood, a hotel and conference center in Westchester County, New York, but his first experience with his own culinary business began at the age of 22 opening a gourmet store in New York City called Gianluca’s Salumeria. This business flourished and spun off a very successful catering business. While owning his own businesses, he honed his restaurant skills as the Manager of a fine dining Italian restaurant in Westchester County, New York before moving to Keene, New Hampshire, in the heart of New England where his wife Lindy grew up, to pursue his dream of a Mediterranean style restaurant.
Luca has always had a love for entertaining through his food so Luca has his own weekly talk radio show, What’s Cooking with Luca Paris, and has had such notable guests as Mary Ann Esposito, host of Ciao Italia and will be a featured chef on an upcoming episode of Ciao Italia. Luca has been a featured chef in the national culinary magazine Culinary Trends. He is a monthly guest on “Cook’s Corner” segment on ABC's WMUR Channel 9 in New England. Luca is also the host of his own cooking show, also titled A Culinary Journey with Luca Paris, locally produced for Cheshire TV, the local cable access station for Keene and surrounding towns and can be seen in the Manchester, New Hampshire area and around the country on cable access stations. His show is one of the most downloaded shows by cable access stations around the nation. Luca has created his own Culinary Journey You Tube Channel, where all the episodes from his TV show can be seen. Luca was also a featured chef on the Resort Network in 2008 and 2009 and is a Chef Ambassador and spokesman for Roland Foods, doing live cooking demonstrations and cooking features on the Roland Foods You Tube channel. Most recently, Chef Luca was selected to compete on the new Food Network show, Guy's Grocery Games, which aired in December 2013 and he won! In 2011 Luca was selected as a New Hampshire Celebrity Chef and nominated for Restaurateur of the year. Luca loves to entertain while teaching about culinary arts. His philosophy is that food should be fun and entertaining and some of the best dishes come from the mistakes! He begins filming his new show, Kids in the Kitchen with Luca Paris, in January 2014.
In addition to his culinary accomplishments, Luca is a serious community supporter and an advocate for charitable organizations. He was on the board of directors of the Keene Chamber of Commerce, and was instrumental in promoting several local restaurants in a special week-long television segments on the local ABC affiliate. He was a founder of the “Keene Snow and Ice Festival” and the reinvented “Taste of Keene” event which supported Meals on Wheels for the elderly. In 2011 and 2012, Luca organized Keene Restaurant week, bringing local restaurants together. Luca has also taught adult culinary courses and has been a guest lecturer at Keene State College. He supports a culinary scholarship that he created, “The Culinary Journey Scholarship Fund,” to help a local high school student going to hospitality or culinary school. He will be teaching classes at the famed Stonewall Kitchen in Maine in the summer of 2014.
Luca was awarded the top honor of New Hampshire Chef of the Year from the New Hampshire Lodging & Restaurant Association for 2013.
Luca feels he has just begun his culinary journey and enjoys sharing it with guests and audiences everywhere and is looking forward to his next adventure. - Length (mins) 20
- Waiver Received No
- Host Dr. Mike Fenster