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Gale Gand is a pastry chef and chef and was a co-founder and partner in the Michelin two-star restaurant, Tru, in Chicago. She hosted Food Network’s long-running show “Sweet Dreams” currently streaming on Discovery Plus, is the author of 8 cookbooks, and worked with Julia Child on her book and PBS series, “Baking with Julia”. Gale teaches cooking classes all over the country and is an artisanal soda pop maker producing Gale’s Root Beer which is sold nationally.

• Recipient of two James Beard awards, Gale has been inducted into the American Academy of Chefs and the Chicago Chefs Hall of Fame, and was schooled in Paris at La Varenne.
• Gale appears at many Food and Wine festivals across the country and is a professional Pie and Food Competition Judge.
• She recently started a Kitchen Sisters Cooking School, a virtual school. She is the mother of 3, has a BFA from RIT in Metalsmithing, and plays the ukulele.
• Fun fact: Gale once made a Peach Cobbler for Aretha Franklin.