Meet Christy Rost
Christy is a television chef and host of her own long-running Texas cooking and lifestyle television series, Just Like Home that has expanded to audiences in Fargo, ND and Des Moines, IA.
Christy's expertise in celebrating home and family will be featured nationwide in the fall of 2009 on PBS and CREATE TV stations with her one-hour Holiday production for American Public Television, A Home for Christy Rost: Thanksgiving, centered around her stunning 1898 mountain home, "Swan's Nest" in Breckenridge, Colorado. This highly-anticipated show will serve as an introduction to Christy's forthcoming national television series, At Home with Christy Rost, which is currently in pre-production.
Christy is the author of two cookbooks, a spokesperson, radio personality, culinary instructor, popular guest presenter for retailers, home shows, and charities, and is a passionate expert in the celebration of Home and Family. Christy is a licensed Registered Nurse, an avid gardener, and shares her realistic, attainable, and signature approach to casual living with an affordable, elegant flair, and her particular sense and commitment to making family feel special and friends feel like family.
Christy has extensive experience representing major retailers as a presenter of cooking techniques, entertaining tips, tablescapes, decorating how-to's, and dining etiquette for clients such as Macy's, Kaufmann's, Foley's, Mikasa, World Market, Sur La Talbe, Whole Foods, Market Street, Market District, The Cook's Nook, Texas Cooks!, Visions: The Women's Expo, Taste Addison, The Dallas Outdoor Flower and Living Show, The Dallas Home & Garden Show, The Fort Worth Home & Garden Show, The Texas State Fair, The Santa Angela Festival, Milestone Culinary Center, The Chicago Tribune's Printers Row, Southern Methodist University's Cox School of Business, and many other venues.
Christy is also a frequent guest on WGN-TV in Chicago, FOX-4 in Dallas, and KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh for her expertise in cooking, entertaining, and quick mealtime solutions, and was a popular guest chef and entertaining expert on FamilyNet television's At Home-Live!, which reached almost 40 million households. Christy has also appeared on EveryDay with Marcus & Lisa, Good Morning Texas, Positively Texas, Pittsburgh TODAY Live! and television programs in Atlanta, Austin, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Houston, El Paso, Green Bay, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Providence, Rochester, Rockford, IL, San Antonio, St. Louis, Syracuse, Youngstown, and many more.
Christy's cookbook, The Family Table: Where Great Food, Friends, and Family Gather Together (Capital Books, Inc.) was published in 2004 and was released in a new paperback edition in September 2005. The Family Table is designed to inspire families, friends, and neighbors to gather around the table to celebrate daily life and special occasions. Her book contains 250 original recipes, extensive wine notes and wine suggestions, and entertaining tips. The foreword was written by Master Chef and award-winning PBS host, Martin Yan of Yan Can Cook.
Christy's newest cookbook is Where's My Spatula? Fast, Healthy Meals When Your Kitchen or Your Life Is A Mess (Capital Books, Inc.). Christy knows first-hand how messy life can be. She developed the recipes and wrote this book while restoring an 1898 historic home in Colorado. In Where's My Spatula? Christy provides quick, easy recipes and solutions for getting delicious, nutritious meals on the table day after day. Who needs to stop at the drive-thru lane for dinner when home cooking is this fast and flavorful!
To schedule Christy for an appearance at your cooking school, trade show, retail special event, club meeting, fundraiser, food and wine festival, or national conference, please email Christy at christy@christyrost.com.