Silvia Bianco is an award-winning chef, writer and former restauranteur. She was the co-owner of Biscotti, a much-loved Italian restaurant in Ridgefield, Connecticut and winner of Zagat’s “Award of Distinction” for multiple years. At Biscotti, Silvia wowed her customers with original, sautéed Italian dishes, which exemplified the simplicity of her native cuisine in her own distinct contemporary style. She quickly became known simply as Chef Silvia. Chef Silvia began offering cooking classes to her restaurant patrons in 1995 catering to a wide variety of culinary tastes from American to European and continental fare. Today she gives cooking classes to private groups and corporate groups (the latter as team-building events) for some of America’s top companies including: GE, Unilever, Dannon, Barnes & Noble, All Clad and many others. She also serves as the resident chef at Williams Sonoma, one of the world’s leading specialty cookware and home furnishing retailers, in Danbury, Connecticut. Chef Silvia has cooked on stage at the highly-acclaimed Ridgefield Playhouse and The James Beard House and on numerous national TV shows, including The Today Show on NBC. Author of Simply Sauté, the first in-depth book on sauté in the US, Chef Silvia is a regular contributor to the hugely popular website www.SimpleReminders.com with six million followers and has also written for The Huffington Post. She considers herself a holistic chef and spiritual teacher, writing from her years of spiritual study and practice as a long time student of non-dualisting teachings. Chef Silvia has an MBA in Marketing from Pace University in Manhattan and a BA in Speech and Theatre from SUNY, the State University of New York.