BIO :

Celebrity chef Stephanie Goldfarb has spent nearly a decade cooking for such renowned Hollywood luminaries as Halle Berry, Ellen DeGeneres & Portia de Rossi, Will Smith & Jada Pinkett Smith, Ben Stiller, Eva Longoria-Parker and Queen Latifah.

Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Stephanie has always had a great passion for food. After spending many years pleasing the palettes of her family and friends, she decided to commence a career and acquire some formal training in the field, and so enrolled in the Professional Chef course at the Epicurean School of Culinary Arts in Los Angeles. Soon after completing the course, she was hired to cater a private dinner party for Oscar®-Award winning actress Halle Berry. It was Stephanie’s first break in the business, which ultimately blossomed into a full-time private client. Since then she has maintained an ever-growing client roster of A-list actors, professional athletes and highly esteemed Hollywood executives.

Stephanie’s enthusiastic flair for the art has afforded her the opportunity to appear on a variety of cooking programs. She has appeared on Food Network’s “Behind the Bash” and shared her culinary creations with epicurean icon Giada De Laurentiis for her Emmy®-Award winning television show “Everyday Italian.” Her innate ability to create delicious and healthy meals made her recipes a perfect fit for “The Hollywood Trainer Weight-Loss Plan: 21 Days to Make Healthy Living a Lifetime Habit.” Stephanie has also shared her expertise with such respected periodicals as USA Weekend and The LA Times.

Stephanie enjoys donating her time and talent to many worthwhile non-profit causes, including one of her favorites, Oceana, an organization involved in saving the world’s oceans. Another of her passions is to create dishes for those with such special dietary needs as diabetes and food allergies; she finds the challenge of coming up with a delicious meal that meets the specific requirements of a client’s diet an extremely rewarding experience. Also concerned with today’s adolescent Americans and their relationship with food, Stephanie is continually looking for ways to help increase overall awareness in terms of a healthy eating lifestyle.

Stephanie’s philosophy is that the kitchen should be a gathering spot for family and friends, a place which has inspired her to create what she calls “progressive comfort food” – her modern twists on such beloved classics as meatloaf, tuna melt, lasagna and even macaroni & cheese.

These days you can find Stephanie running her highly successful, Los Angeles-based catering company, Salt Kitchen (www.saltkitchen.com), under which she recently launched a gluten-free line of muffins for Whole Foods Market.

CLIENT LIST :

Halle Berrry
Marcus Allen ( Kansas City Chiefs )
Queen Latifah
Tom Cruise
Michael Keaton
Giada De Laurentis
The Foodnetwork
Days of Our Lives 4oth Anniversary Party
Stacey Snider and Gary Jones
Michael and Jena King
Richard and Lauren King
Shannon and Dean Factor
Jon and Mindy Peters
Damon Wayans
Ellen De Generes
Portia De Rossi
Tom Rosenberg- Lakeshore Entertainment
Merry Aronson- Merry Media PR
Margot and Mike Murphy
Elyse Walker
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith
Katie Holmes
Penelope Cruz
Rick Frey and the CW Network (various events)
Senator Barbara Boxer
Oceana Event
Salma Hayek
Felicity Huffman
Eva Longoria-Parker