Chef Diane DiMeo

Chef Diane DiMeo, executive chef and owner & chef of Bootleg Farms, first started working as a pastry chef at Les Duex in West Hollywood, California. She then apprenticed with Alan Harding at Patois and after learning as much as she could there, Diane went on to become the executive chef at Galaxy Global Eatery. From that point, chef Diane DiMeo went on to open Soju (pan Asian restaurant), The Neighborhood Kitchen (culinary arts school), an executive chef for 1834 Bar and Burger, an in-house Chef Consultant at Dean and DeLuca , Chef of Red Box Bistro (underground supper club), Chef consultant for Lexington Social, El Paso, and Blackhorse Pub, and a freelance chef at Liberty National House in Jersey City.

She is also starring in a food show for TLC International AND Nuvo (previously SiTV) airing this coming October. Diane has also been on The Food Network's Chopped, and won.

Bootleg Farms are now available in Dean and DeLuca nationwide and in their summer catalog, Farmacy Brooklyn, Stinkys, Open Sky under Carolyn Murphy, Art Mart, and Wholefoods NYC.