About Chef Danielle
Chef Danielle Turner knows food and entertaining. As a personal chef,
cooking instructor and food writer, Chef Danielle is an expert in all things
culinary. Whether it’s effortless entertaining, making classic culinary
techniques accessible to beginning cooks, or writing about food in all its
glory, Chef Danielle has the skill, experience and personality to bring
food to life. Her company, Great Taste – A Personal Chef Service, allows
many members of Washington’s elite to enjoy restaurant-quality meals in
the comfort and privacy of their homes.
Hundreds of students have enjoyed learning practical cooking skills from Chef Danielle during the many recreational cooking
classes she has taught at venues like L’Academie de Cuisine, Sur La Table and Williams-Sonoma. Her straight-forward
approach to cooking has made her food blog How to Boil an Egg (www.howtoboilanegg.wordpress.com) popular among novice
and advanced cooks alike.
As a food writer, Chef Danielle has penned feature articles for The Food Network Holiday Survival Guide and The Food
Network Summer Grilling Guide, both of which were produced by The Food Network and distributed in Scripps Howard
newspapers. She is a regular contributor to FabulousFoods.com and has been a guest blogger at Culinate.com, ChefsBlade.
com and DivineCaroline.com. She has contributed to ChefsBest.org, where her how-to articles have covered planning a
cheese tasting, creating simple place settings and increasing antioxidants in your diet. She served as Contributing Editor at
Restaurant Digest, a monthly trade publication covering the foodservice industry in metropolitan Washington, D.C. and has
written a monthly recipe column and feature articles on restaurants and food for the Prince George’s Gazette newspapers. As
a featured chef in The Baltimore Sun’s ‘Make Over My Meal’ series, Chef Danielle developed original vegetarian recipes for a
holiday meal.
The Food Network contracted Chef Danielle as a freelance food stylist, assisting network personalities Rachael Ray of “Thirty-
Minute Meals” and Giada De Laurentiis of “Everyday Italian” with live cooking demonstrations and media appearances in the
Washington area.
Chef Danielle has conducted cooking demonstrations at the Tavis Smiley Road to Health Expo, Mercy Medical Center, Carroll
County Hospital Center, AT Kearney, Hadco/VIKING, the National Kidney Foundation and the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.
She has appeared as a guest on “9 News at 9 with Andrea Roane,” “9 News Now,” “Evening Exchange with Kojo Nnamdi,”
Fairfax County Cable’s “Recipes from the Chef’s Kitchen,” and Maryland Public Television’s “Your Money & Business.”
She lives and eats adventurously in the wilds of suburban DC with her husband and daughter.