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2009 Rising Star Award from San Francisco |
 SAN FRANCISCO, May 11, 2009 - Parties That Cook®  NAWBO-reprint.pdf (http://www.partiesthatcook.com), the nation’s premier culinary events company, today announced that founder Bibby Gignilliat will be receiving the 2009 Rising Star award from San Francisco Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) at the 25th Annual Leaders and Legends Luncheon to be held on May 15, 2009 at the Westin St. Francis, San Francisco. The Rising Star award is given to an exceptional business woman, who has exhibited outstanding leadership and shown dedication to the future of the business community. This Article has Video! |
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View from the Bay features Parties That Cook |
ABC's The View from the Bay features Parties That Cook: "Fun and Creative Cooking Classes"
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 Date Night: Sumptuous Small Plates Couples Cooking Class
Dinner and a movie doesn't always cut it. Sometimes you want something a little more hands-on, something to give that night out a little kick in the pants, which is when Parties that Cook comes in very handy.
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San Francisco Business Times |
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 ENTREPRENEUR PROFILE: Bibby Gignilliat
Founder & Executive Chef, Parties That Cook
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 TOUGH TIMES CALL FOR NEW IDEAS
Parties That Cook, a San Francisco company that hosts cooking parties as corporate team-building events, typically sells packages for $75 to $115 per person. Chief Executive Bibby Gignilliat and her team recently introduced a new offering: For $45 per person, companies can bring employees for a cooking demonstration rather than having employees fix dishes themselves. Gignilliat feels they're more marketable right now. "We're trying to get into budgets that aren't going to be eliminated in this economy."
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View from the Bay Crostini Of Goat Cheese |
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Founder and Executive Chef Bibby Gignilliat demonstrates how to make holiday appetizer favorite Crostini of Goat Cheese with Olive, Cranberry and Pecan Tapenade on ABC’s View from the Bay television show. |
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Ahi Tuna Tartare in Sesame Wonton Cups |
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 Parties That Cook Founder/Executive Chef Bibby Gignilliat shows you how to create a popular Sumptuous Small Plates appetizer, Ahi Tuna Tartare in Sesame Wonton Cups.
Ahi Tuna Tartare in Sesame Wonton Cups - Instructional Video - Click here to view! |
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San Francisco Chronicle - On the Town |
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 COOKING TEACHER BIBBY GIGNILLIAT'S FAVORITE PLACES
Bibby Gignilliat is the founder of Parties That Cook, a Bay Area company that turns dinner parties of all sizes into hands-on affairs for the guests. The Chicago native has lived in San Francisco for 20 years, holding jobs as a computer programmer and bike tour guide before discovering her love for teaching people how to put together gourmet meals. She let us know about some of her favorite places to stock up on supplies for her events and where she goes to unwind afterward.
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SFoodie blog: SOMETHING DIFFERENT FOR THE WORKING STIFF: LUNCH HOUR CHEF SERIES AT THE FERRY BUILDING
If you work in the Financial District, chances are you've reached the end of your rope more than once when it comes to lunch options: falafel, soup, sandwich, burrito -- and repeat, ad infinitum. But don't forget that the Ferry Building is really only a few blocks away, and while there's enough precious, high-priced foodstuffs to choke a gourmand over there, there are also excellent, healthy routine-busters like the Lunch Hour Chef Series.
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San Francisco Magazine - It List |
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 TASTE NOW! #1 - July 31st, 2008
If your brown-bag lunch is giving you the blues, shake up your noontime break with CUESA (Center for Urban Education about Sustainable Agriculture) and Parties That Cook's Lunch Hour Chef Summer Series. In a hands-on lesson, you'll make your own gourmet sandwich and salad using only hand-picked ingredients from the Ferry Building Farmers' Market. This week, you'll whip up a grilled chicken sandwich with marinated artichokes and lemon hummus, as well as an arugula salad with oh-so-juicy grilled peaches. Aug. 1, 8, and 22, 12-1 PM, $25.
Lunch Hour Chef Summer Series
1 Ferry Building
Embarcadero
415.441.3595
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 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- The San Francisco Small Business Network (SBN) named Parties That Cook winner of the coveted 2008 Small Business Owner of the Year Award. Nominees were judged on innovation of product/service, increases in sales, employee growth, community service and overall staying power. Owner Bibby Gignilliat accepted the award at the 24th Annual Awards Gala on May 22, 2008 at the Marines’ Memorial Club in San Francisco. Watch the video!
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 Eye on the Bay features Parties That Cook! Starring Bibby Gignilliat.
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THESE FIRMS ARE BITE-SIZING
A profitable feast: Food-related entrepreneurs are turning the Bay Area into a free range of innovation, and their customers are eating it up.
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 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) -- Corporate team building events can be a bore, but add a few spicy ingredients and a bit of chocolate and you just might smell success. Welcome to the apprentice meets iron chef. "Parties That Cook" founder, Bibby Gignilliat, throws corporate parties that sizzle.
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KGO-AM 810 Radio Interview Gene Burns |
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 KGO Radio AM810 Hosted by Gene Burns interviews Bibby Gignilliat
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Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine |
 THE KNOWLEDGE: Bibby Gignilliat
The founder of Parties That Cook serves up workplace harmony
Corporate team-building exercises often deserve their bad reputations. After all, what can you learn from the fifth annual trust fall?
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Cards for a Party - Contra Costa Times |
 When I opened Bibby Gignilliat's "The Sumptuous Small Plates Deck'' (Parties That Cook, $17.95), I felt like I had been invited to not one but dozens of hip, fun parties -- the kind that serve only the best foods. My only question was, what time should I arrive? |
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The New York Times & International Herald Tribune |
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 SAN FRANCISCO: Steve Jakosa, leader of the Emerald Palace cooking team, had just taken off his apron and sat down to enjoy his dinner when the bad news came. His team's Mongolian beef had lost.
Across the room, the Wok Stars, Jakosa's opponents, cheered over their sweet soy and chili flank steak.
It was a cook-off with decidedly corporate overtones as the group of amateur chefs from UBS, the financial services company, divided into two teams and donned aprons one recent evening at Sur La Table, a kitchen and tableware store in this food-obsessed city.
Jakosa stood to make a toast. "I just want to tell you I'm devastated we didn't win the protein category," he said in jest. |
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My Cooking Is Better Than Your Cooking |
 Why not put your culinary mettle to the test? If you live in San Francisco or Chicago, Parties That Cook will come to your home (or another venue of your choosing) and facilitate and Iron Chef-style competition for you and your friends. They provide the ingredients, set up the equipment, and lay out the rules of engagement. When the timer starts, you get to work. Once the judges have declared a winner, you all sit down and break bread together – that is if you are still talking. |
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Chicago Social Magazine "Cook Up Some Romance" |
 Parties That Cook singles cooking parties were mentioned in the October issue of Chicago Social magazine - the hip magazine in Chicago! |
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 Suddenly Single: Wacky new ways to meet someone. If you believe the way to someone’s heart is through the stomach, you may be right. But here’s a new twist on the food-love equation: Several companies are betting that if you get single people together, teach them how to cook dinner — and let them enjoy the results together — you’ll do more than boost culinary skills. You may just heat up their love life, too.
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California Home & Design Magazine |
 Parties That Cook staged a hands-on cooking party for the staff at California Home & Design magazine that was featured in their September 2006 issue. |
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 How exciting! Parties That Cook singles and date night cooking classes were recently mentioned in Daily Candy - the savvy San Francisco newsletter edition that highlights all that is fun and cool (at least we think so!).
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KGO-AM 810 Radio Interview |
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 KGO-AM 810 AM. Dining Around with GraceAnn Walden.
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 Professional chefs dish up better teams one hungry company at a time!
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 Parties That Cook is named “Best Way to Party” in the June issue of 7x7 Magazine! The magazine highlights our Iron Chef-style “Kitchen Challenge” events which are perfect for building teamwork and camaraderie with your co-workers.
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 Sharing food is an age-old bonding ritual, but preparing it can be intensely competitive. Which is why Bibby Gignilliat, the founder of Parties That Cook (www.partiesthatcook.com), thinks an event involving both is the perfect way to whip up a more cohesive company.
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 Hey, Good-Looking, Want To Stir My Cookie Batter?By Monica Eng- Tribune Staff Reporter
Sizing up potential mates while trying to look cute, sound witty and chew demurely is hard and dangerous work. So you’d think that adding hot ovens, boiling oil and sharp knives to the equation would be a bad idea. Not so, I discovered at a recent Chicago installment of Parties that Cook, a national culinary program that hosts singles cooking classes.
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Smart Meetings "The Times That Bind" |
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 The climber is hanging by one hand. Her radio lies smashed way down on the ridge beneath. If she had it, she could hear the warning from her climbing partners, people she works with, that a major avalanche is moving in—fast.
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 Meet and eat! Guys who have $75 but no one to spend it on, you're in luck.
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Parties That Cook Founder Bibby Gignilliat shares an “out of the box” breakfast favorite with Prevention Magazine. Prevention features smart ways to live well with info and tips from experts on weight loss, fitness, health, nutrition, recipes, anti-aging & diets.
