Talk to the Top Chef!

Stephanie Izard

Book signing follows talk at 7:30 pm

Museum of 
Contemporary 
Art Chicago

220 E Chicago Ave

Chicago IL 60611 

Stephanie Izard

Book signing follows talk at 7:30 pm

Stephanie Izard was born in the Chicago suburb of Evanston but grew up in 

Stamford, Connecticut, where her parents got her hooked on food with their 

themed dinner parties, weekly menus posted on the fridge and a life-changing

trip to Epcot where she couldn’t wait to get home and recreate the crepes she 

ate in “France.” As much as she loved cooking (and eating), she went the traditional 

route first and got a sociology degree from University of Michigan. Soon thereafter, 

she discovered that all she really wanted to do was cook. After graduating from the 

Le Cordon Bleu program at the Scottsdale Culinary Institute, she worked at several 

restaurants, including the Camelback Inn Resort & Spa, before making the decision 

to return to Chicago in 2001. Stephanie is the winner of season four of 

Bravo’s Top Chef, owner and executive chef at Girl and the Goat, author of her first 

cookbook, Girl in the Kitchen: How a Top Chef Cooks, Thinks, Shops, Eats, 

and Drinks.