Ellamarie Fortenbach is the founder of Chez Le Petit Chef, a cooking school in San Carlos CA, focusing on child chefs. Her goal is to create a culinary learning experience for children in a safe and nurturing environment through a multitude of different projects.

COOKING WITH ELLAMARIE, CELEBRITIES & KIDS is more than a beautiful coffee table book filled with great recipes and kitchen experiences shared with celebrities and their children, it's an inspirational, triumphant ten-year journey by Celebrity Chef Ellamarie Fortenbach to follow her dream and triumph in the face of overwhelming odds.

This book combines cooking and a great cause-many celebrities,including Kevin Sorbo,share time in the kitchen with Ellamarie,a renown chef. Families will learn how to bond in the kitchen and cook great dishes at the same time.

Cooking with Ellamarie, Celebrities & Kids features succulent recipes, personal stories, words of wisdom, and stories of hopes and dreams that have been contributed by celebrities and successful executives such as renowned chef Thomas Keller, proprietor of the French Laundry and Per Se.

Imagine what it took to reach out to a few dozen celebrities she didn't know asking them to roll up their sleeves and cook at home with their families, all under the watchful gaze of a photographer and Ella. Yet she somehow ended up with 25 celebrities and executives and their families.