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Laurie Figone is an award-winning chef, TV personality, and author. She has won top honors in numerous national and international recipe/cook-off competitions including the Gilroy Garlic Festival's ‘So You Think You Can Cook with Garlic', Bob's Red Mill ‘Spar for the Spurtle', the 19th Annual World Porridge Making Championship in Scotland, Taste of Home recipe contest, the 1st Annual Cook-Off Before Kick-off, and most recently winning the World Food Championship Dessert Category.
Laurie has been featured on the TODAY Show as a Top 3 Finalist in their Burger Battle, and was spotlighted by celebrity chef Paula Dean in the Real Women of Philadelphia contest. She has also been a guest numerous times on FOX 40-TV in Sacramento, CA and has appeared on CBS's Good Day Sacramento. She is currently working with KTVU Channel 2 in Oakland, CA as a frequent guest chef for their cooking segments.
Laurie has been the featured chef for the last three years at the Sonoma County Fair performing three daily cooking demonstrations, has been a guest speaker at the California Women for Agriculture Annual Convention, and has been a food columnist for the Sonoma County Farm Bureau for three years.
From January, 2011 to December, 2013 Laurie hosted her own cooking show on Petaluma Community Access, Cooking With Laurie Figone. The program followed Laurie as she visited local growers/producers and then back to her kitchen where she created culinary masterpieces.
A native to one of the most beautiful areas in Northern California, Laurie was raised on a multi-generational dairy ranch, nestled in the West Marin county hills of rural Novato. Families were close- knit, work was hard and the hours were long, but everyone came together at the end of the day for a wonderful meal at the family table. It is from these roots that Laurie's passion was born.
