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Businesses, Non-profit organizations, event planners and companies across the country have worked closely with our booking agents to hire Ben Barker for a speaking engagements, guest appearances, product endorsements and corporate events. Many of those same clients have continued to turn to our speakers bureau as we can easily align Ben Barker’s availability with their upcoming seminar, gala, annual conference, corporate function, and grand opening. Our close relationship with Ben Barker’s booking agent and management team further enables us to provide inquiring clients with Ben Barker’s speaking fee and appearance cost.

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Ben Barker's culinary skills have been praised by food critics in such publications as The New York Times, The Washington Post, Food & Wine, Bon Appétit, Esquire, Restaurant News, Southern Living, and others. Feature stories and their recipes have appeared in Bon Appétit, Food & Wine, Chocolatier, Southern Living, Ladies Home Journal and Traditional Home magazines. Ben and Karen met on the first day of class as students at The Culinary Institute of America and have been cooking together ever since. They each have an Associate Degree from the CIA (class of 1981) and now live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina with their son, Gabriel. Ben is a North Carolinian and has been chef of Restaurant La Residence (a French restaurant founded by Bill Neal) in Chapel Hill; head chef, The Fearrington House, Pittsboro, North Carolina, where he succeeded Edna Lewis. While there, Ben established "The Cuisine of the New South" as the theme of the restaurant. He also instituted the first all-American wine list in North Carolina and was instrumental in securing the "Relais et Chateau" designation for the Inn at Fearrington. With his wife, Karen, he is chef/co-owner of Magnolia Grill, Durham, North Carolina.

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