Elizabeth Falkner is an award winning chef who started cooking in, and owned restaurants in San Francisco for two decades and then New York for a decade. She continues to cook at Food & Wine Festivals, fundraisers, and other events and has cooked for countless celebrities and personalities across multiple platforms. Elizabeth works also as a recipe/formula developer/consultant on projects and brands such as Molino Bianco/Barilla, Starbucks, Hershey, Pepsi, Compass Group, Nestle, Cliff Bar, Mondalez, Wrigley’s, Quaker, General Mills, Emmi Cheeses from Switzerland, M&M/Mars, Behave Candy, and more. She has appeared on television on multiple networks and all of the cooking competition reality series for the last twenty years and is a world recognized pioneer and leader in culinary.
Chef Falkner is a fitness advocate and loves playing sports and staying “Fit to Cook” and continually speaks to working on life balance in the industry. She’s an author of three cookbooks, she cooks, speaks and teaches all over the world. She currently serves on the board of trustees of the James Beard Foundation. She is also on the culinary council of City Harvest, NYC and Forever Oceans. She was the president of Women Chefs & Restaurateurs, serving 1 year terms from 2019-2020 and from 2014-2015. In 2020 she re-located to Los Angeles and produced and hosts a documentary called, “Sorry We’re Closed”, which made festival circuits and won Best Documentary Feature at Pasadena Film Festival 2023, now streaming on Apple TV. Elizabeth is obsessed with ingredients and best practices. She and her partner, Heather Fryer are launching T’MARO Spirits and T’MARO Brands in June 2024.