About Cooking Clarified

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Cooking Clarified will open the kitchen door for wannabe cooks who don’t know a pot from a pan. A tasty mix of food know-how and how-to, Cooking Clarified teaches readers the A-B-C’s of cooking in language that’s — simple, straightforward, concise. We’ll share helpful cooking tips; identify common ingredients and kitchen utensils, explaining how and why they’re used; and teach readers to complete basic cooking techniques. Clueless about cardamom? Puzzled by poaching? Wondering about whisks? No problem. Chef Danielle will clarify it!

Chef
Chef Danielle Turner knows cooking, food and entertaining. As a personal chef, cooking instructor and food writer, she is an expert in all things culinary. Whether it’s effortless entertaining, making classic culinary techniques accessible to beginning cooks, or writing about food in all its glory, Chef Danielle has the skill, experience and personality to bring food to life. Her company, Great Taste — A Personal Chef Service, offers a wide range of culinary services from private cooking classes and personal chef services to food styling and recipe development.

Cooking Instructor

Hundreds of students have enjoyed learning practical cooking skills from Chef Danielle during the many recreational cooking classes she has taught at venues like L’Academie de Cuisine, Anne Arundel Community College, Whole Foods, Sur La Table, TasteDC, ProKitchen and Williams-Sonoma.

Food Writer
As a food writer, Chef Danielle has penned feature articles for The Food Network Holiday Survival Guide and The Food Network Summer Grilling Guide, both of which were produced by The Food Network and distributed in Scripps Howard newspapers. She has been a regular contributor to FabulousFoods.com and has been a guest blogger at Culinate.com,ChefsBlade.com and DivineCaroline.com. She has contributed to ChefsBest.org, where her how-to articles have covered planning a cheese tasting, creating simple place settings and increasing antioxidants in your diet. She served as Contributing Editor at Restaurant Digest, a monthly trade publication covering the foodservice industry in metropolitan Washington, D.C. and has written a monthly recipe column and feature articles on restaurants and food for the Prince George’s Gazette newspapers. As a featured chef in The Baltimore Sun’s ‘Make Over My Meal’ series, Chef Danielle developed original vegetarian recipes for a holiday meal. You can read samples of Chef Danielle’s published articles here.

Food Stylist
Chef Danielle is the food stylist for the national, PBS cooking show, Pati’s Mexican Table. Watch this video to see how Chef Danielle helped bring Pati’s beautiful food to life.Chef Danielle’s food styling tips were featured in Woman’s World Magazine and her in-home food styling class was featured in the DC edition of The Daily Candy. The Food Network contracted Chef Danielle as a freelance food stylist, assisting network personalities Rachael Ray of “Thirty-Minute Meals” and Giada De Laurentiis of “Everyday Italian” with live cooking demonstrations and media appearances in the Washington area. She has styled television segments for Weber Shandwick Public Relations and Dr. Wendy Bazilion, author of The SuperFoods Rx Diet.

Chef Danielle has conducted cooking demonstrations at the Tavis Smiley Road to Health Expo, Mercy Medical Center, Carroll County Hospital Center, AT Kearney, Hadco/VIKING, the National Kidney Foundation and the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. She has appeared as a guest on “9 News at 9 with Andrea Roane,” “9 News Now,” “Evening Exchange with Kojo Nnamdi,” Fairfax County Cable’s “Recipes from the Chef’s Kitchen,” and Maryland Public Television’s “Your Money & Business.”

Chef Danielle is a proud member of Les Dames d’Escoffier and Women Chefs & Restaurateurs. She lives and eats adventurously in the wilds of suburban DC with her husband and daughter.