Panelist-How to Turn Your Passion for Food into a Business
Celeste is a Spokane, Washington businesswoman, entrepreneur, and contributing writer for several magazines. Her highly successful restaurant CHAPS, opened in 2006 to immediate critical acclaim, garnering the region’s “Top Table Award” in only its second year of operation. CHAPS annually receives acknowledgement from the food industry and voting patrons as “Best” in breakfast and family restaurant categories. Not simply content with the success of CHAPS, Celeste expanded it adding her bakery called “Cake” to complement the restaurant. CHAPS is now considered a “must visit” destination for the area, as underscored and featured on the Food Network’s “Diners Drive Inns and Dives”© in November 2010. Celeste is extremely proud of her country girl, Montana roots and heritage, where as a teenager she excelled in track, being selected as one of the youngest members of the 1980 U.S. Summer Olympics Team before the Games were boycotted. By education and training, she has a Masters degree in nursing, specializing as an Intensive Care Unit Nurse, having been voted “Nurse of The Year,” and traveling world wide with pediatric surgical trauma teams. She is the proud mother of two sons.
Celeste’s architectural, artistic, culinary, and decorating talents are not only on display at CHAPS, but have been featured nationally in several publications and books.
Contact:
Web:www.chapsgirl.com
