Melissa King Biography

Melissa King trained under several Michelin-star and James Beard-recognized chefs including Dominique Crenn Craig Stoll and Ron Siegel. She earned national recognition placing as a finalist on Bravo's television series Top Chef. King's hyper-local cooking style combines the Bay Area's best ingredients with modern techniques and Asian flavors. In 2015 King founded Co+Lab an experimental pop-up dinner series in which she collaborates with local chefs and food artisans. She is the first chef ambassador for Whole Foods Market. She's created two ice cream flavors with Humphry Slocombe sold exclusively within Whole Foods: Hong Kong Milk Tea and Golden Milk & Gingerbread; a 3rd flavor to launch June 2018. She was selected as Celebrity Grand Marshal for San Francisco Pride 2016 and has modeled for a Levi's Strauss 2018 global Pride campaign advocating for the LGBTQ community. In Nov 2016 she was the opening guest chef of Elle Cafe Aoyama a fine dining restaurant in the fashion district of Tokyo in collaboration with Elle Magazine. Along with being a chef international consultant television personality and brand partner King actively participates in speaking panels supporting women's empowerment environmental sustainability food education for youths and entrepreneurship. She also appears at food & music festivals such as Outsidelands Pebble Beach Food & Wine Festival & the Napa Valley Film Festival.

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