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It's all written the nice and pretty way below, but the short version is that my goal is nothing less than to change the landscape of food media, where much of what is being shilled is resplendent with vapidity. I've spent most of my career working with the world's greatest chefs, and their inspiration is largely what has led me to this magnificent phase of my life. Cooks rule. :)

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When most young girls were playing with Barbie dolls, Jennifer Iannolo was playing "food show" in front of her kitchen window (the camera).

A passion for gastronomy flows through her veins, and her life's mission is to ignite that same level of excitement in others.

Whether she is sneaking a peek at the world's best restaurant kitchens, trolling a farmer's market, studying tomes on food history, or teaching nursery schoolers how to cook, Jennifer is in her element. Her culinary adventures were featured in the New York Times bestseller, Secrets of the Young & Successful , and are highlighted in a television ad campaign for GoDaddy.com.

The Gilded Fork started as her personal food blog, and was relaunched as an online food magazine in February 2005. Now part of The Gilded Fork, LLC, the growing new media company she founded with business partner Mark Tafoya, the site welcomes passionate cooks -- both amateur and professional -- from more than seventy countries around the globe, and was nominated as a finalist for Best Food/Drink Site for the 2005 World Food Media Awards along with Leite's Culinaria , BBC Food and Jacques Pepin's Fast Food My Way .

The Culinary Podcast Network , a division of the Gilded Fork, features Jennifer's Food Philosophy podcast, where she ruminates on the connections between food and sensuality, and how an appreciation for both can enhance the time we spend on this planet. She also talks with leading chefs about the why behind their passion for cuisine. Food Philosophy and ReMARKable Palate (hosted by Mark Tafoya) are both proud members of the PodShow family.

Prior to her Gilded Fork adventure, Jennifer spent a decade working with the world's greatest chefs, including Charlie Trotter, Daniel Boulud, Thomas Keller, Michel Roux, Raymond Blanc, Michel Troisgros and Santi Santamaria. She is also the former Director of Culinary Programs for Relais & Chateaux, the renowned international collection of luxury hotels and restaurants, where she launched the Ecole des Chefs program with more than 100 master and Michelin-starred chefs from around the world. In addition, Jennifer has provided her consulting expertise for the James Beard Awards, Bon Appetit Magazine, American Express, Share Our Strength, New York City's Restaurant Week, and Taste of the Nation .

As an entrepreneur, Jennifer has launched numerous companies, and has shared her insights with students from the Stern School of Business at New York University, where as an undergraduate she helped to create one of the Top Ten Student-Run Businesses in America (1993). She was also featured in a case study for the University of Southern California's Entrepreneurship program.

A passionate advocate of food philosophy and entrepreneurship, she has appeared as a guest speaker at the Culinary Institute of America and New York University, and as a guest lecturer at Babson College. Her other published work includes an essay on food and sensuality for the upcoming Food & Philosophy anthology by Blackwell Publishing (to be released in 2007) and the essay Romantic Love in Atlas Shrugged for the Ashgate anthology Atlas Shrugged: A Philosophical and Literary Companion .

Jennifer is now the C.E.O. of The Gilded Fork, LLC, and lives in New York's Hudson Valley. She holds a B.S. in International Business and Marketing from the Stern School of Business at New York University, and studied in Paris through La Sorbonne, L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques, and L'Ecole du Louvre.

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