The new Chef’s Channel from LTN provides professional development for culinary and hospitality personnel, and serious food enthusiasts. The newsroom tracks and advises the public on the latest trends, products and new menu items, as well as the looming obesity crisis.

The Chef’s Channel from LTN provides professional development for culinary and hospitality personnel, and serious food enthusiasts. Besides searching for the best diet options from around the world, they are taping interviews with chefs and food experts and building case studies, best practices, and training programs, from laying a table to planning State Banquets. Major emphasis is on essential skills, menus, costs, legislative, diet and health issues, all which can adversely effect the profitability and smooth running of food and beverage operations. The news facilities are being upgraded to bring the latest in breaking news to assist chef’s and managers in planning utilization of resources, as well as track, and inform the public on the growing obesity epidemic.

The Chef’s Channel was created with the input of executive chefs, hotel and restaurant managers around the world. It uses the Internet, (ChefsTV.com and ChefsRadio.com), broadcast satellite, tapes and DVD’s for distribution of news impacting operations and profitability, health and safety issues, new products, informational and training programs. To accompany the multimedia programs LTN has created Chef’s Studio and Chef’s Workshop, enabling audiences around the world to learn from the top chefs, and food & beverage experts. Since announcing Chefs Studio in October 2003 LTN has received over 560,000 inquiries.

Because of the keen international interest in Chef’s Channel, LTN has reopened its UK news bureau, to enable the coverage to be structured for both the USA and Europe. The international approach offers a means of cost efficient training and quality control of hospitality and culinary standards for multinational hotel and restaurant chains. The medical profession have welcomed this international approach as the ideal way to highlight the best in healthy cuisine around the world, especially in the face of growing concern over diet, and obesity in the United States.

The creators of Chef’s Channel are:
Alan Simpson, the global satellite television pioneer has developed television networks in over 80 countries, and over 100 media web sites. He created LeisureTime Network in 1992 to produce digital television programs and live events in Europe and the USA.

Linda Schnabl-Simpson is an international event producer with major international and political events to her credit, including for the British Royal family, Reagan Inaugural, and many political and diplomatic events. She currently manages over 8500 events a year for the pharmaceutical industry.

Further details can be found on www.ChefsTV.com and shortly on www.ChefsRadio.com