Holiday Cooking Ideas with Special Guest Chef Amy Jurist

Published: Nov. 17, 2011, midnight

b"Leaving a successful 20 year marketing & advertising career behind (including several TV networks and over 650 retail outlets), Chef Amy Jurist began pursuing her passion for food about 10 years ago and started her own full service catering company, Amy\\u2019s Culinary Adventures, in Los Angeles. Chef Amy\\u2019s culinary passion is moved by decadent foods, great sauces, and \\u201cyummy\\u201d amazing flavors.\\xa0 In addition to catering, Chef Amy also teaches cooking classes, does product and recipe development for cookbooks and companies like Trader Joes. Additionally, she provides weekly meals to private families interested in great quality food every night, without the mess of preparing it themselves.\\n \\xa0For the past 5 years, Chef Amy has also been running her Decadent Underground Dinner Club.\\xa0 Her famous \\u201cFood Raves\\u201d are one night only \\u201crestaurants\\u201d, that you have to be \\u201con the list\\u201d to get invited. Her events are so unique, because, unlike a regular restaurant, the people, the menu and the location will never be together again!\\xa0\\n Her specialty is working with clients to create customized menus to ensure outstanding, memorable parties. She can make any food, from any country, and IN any country!. In fact, this summer she was flown to France to cater a client's wedding. She's catered an Indian wedding, done fully plated Pan Asian dinner for 85, A night in Italy for 125 people, and Greek and Moroccan dinners, too.\\xa0 And even won awards for her Potato Pancakes.\\xa0\\n She graduated from Culinary School and has certificates in Professional Cooking and Professional Pastry.\\n Chef Amy has been featured on CBS | KCAL | NBC | FOX | KCRW's Good Food | Los Angeles Magazine, Urban Daddy | 944 Magazine, Tasting Table and over 40 magazines and blogs.\\xa0\\n For info and to get on her underground dinner list, visit amysculinaryadventures.com."