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Chef Art Smith

Art Smith, chef, author, and television personality has brought back meaning and symbolism to the word “table” and has united families and friends through the sharing of a meal.

A native of Jasper, Florida, Art studied at the Florida State University School of Business.  He began his career with two internships at The Greenbrier Resort and was then selected to attend the prestigious Walt Disney Magic Kingdom College Program.  Following graduation, Art took a position working at the Florida Governor’s Mansion where he worked as executive chef for Governor Bob Graham, now a U.S. senator, and his wife Adele.  He continued to cook for families all over the globe, including other well-known politicians and celebrities. 

After traveling extensively through Europe and Africa as a family chef, Art took a position as chef on the American European Express Train. Once settled in Chicago, he began teaching at Williams Sonoma and later served as a special event chef for Martha Stewart Living Magazine.  In 1997, he began a 10-year-long position of personal chef to Oprah Winfrey and Stedman Graham.  He currently acts as the specialty chef for Ms. Winfrey’s most talked about events. In 2007 he will launch a new fine dining restaurant in Chicago called “Table,” which will serve handmade, organic foods gathered from some of the best farms in the Midwest.

Art is a 2002 James Beard Award winner for his first cookbook, Back to the Table: The Reunion of Food and Family (Hyperion, 2001).  For his second cookbook, Kitchen Life: Real Food for Real Families (Hyperion, 2004), he received the prestigious 2001 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for “Best Family and Children’s Cookbook.”  A National Bestseller and New York Times Bestseller, Art was selected twice as keynote speaker for Florida Governor Jeb Bush’s “Celebration of Reading,” sponsored by the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy.  He is a contributing chef for best-selling author Dr. Dean Ornish’s new family health book and he is currently working on a follow-up to his first best-selling cookbook, Back to the Family (Rutledge Hill), which will launch in February 2007. 

Art is a contributing editor to O, the Oprah Magazine and the Food section of Oprah.com and has appeared several times on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.”  He is featured regularly on television programs, appearing nationally on “The Today Show” and “Good Day Live” and serving as a regular tasting judge on Food Network’s “Iron Chef America.”

A fervent supporter of the community, Art established Common Threads, a nonprofit organization based on his passionate belief that families (whether a family by blood or a family of friends) all share an innate desire to care for each other, regardless of culture, race or geographic location.  Common Threads embodies Art’s mission to foster a familial environment where children can learn to value each other and discover universal understanding and mutual acceptance.  The innovative program serves more than 1,000 children at seven locations around Chicago and recently expanded into the Oprah Winfrey Boys & Girls Club of Kosciusko, Mississippi.  A Los Angeles location will open in 2007.  Art also serves on the board of directors of “Kids CafĂ©,” a nutrition program for children in Minneapolis.

Art lives in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood with his life partner, renowned artist Jesus Salgueiro, tending to their garden and their three dogs, five cats and 15 fish.

 

 

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