JJ was the first winner of Bravo Network’s Rocco’s Dinner Party, and is currently producing a new cooking TV show created to get kids to start cooking and help parents to be more conscious of what they put in their bodies; Kids Love Cooking with Chef JJ.

Joseph’s first chef coat is a style M101, which he will be wearing for a press conference as well as a photo shoot:
White, 100% cotton Seersucker fabric, with White Rivershell buttons.

His second jacket is also an M101 style, which he will be wearing on stage for the entirety of the competition:
Grey, 100% Organic Cotton Twill fabric, with Abalone Buttons.

Embroidery placement for both jackets is as follows:
Kids Love Cooking with Chef JJ logo & VuMee logo on left chest.
Crooked Brook logo on the left sleeve.
Teen Battle Chef logo on the right sleeve.

About Chef JJ and Kids Love Cooking with Chef JJ

Recently, Chef JJ was the first winner of Rocco’s Dinner Party competition, which aired on Bravo Television Network. With his amazing charm and high confidence it was very easy for viewers to take a liking to him. Chef JJ is currently displaying his culinary talents in an executive dining institute while hosting events, and teaching others to live a healthy lifestyle.

In an effort to get individuals more conscious of what they put into their bodies and to increase awareness of childhood obesity, Chef JJ is working on a television show called Kids Love Cooking with Chef JJ. In the filming of the show, Chef JJ works with children to teach them various techniques on how to eat healthier. Chef JJ believes food is an expression and cooking is the greatest stimulator. He incorporates local ingredients, modern cooking techniques, and laces them with a sense of love and humor.

About Teen Battle Chef

Teen Battle Chef is a nationwide youth development program operating in over 80 schools, farms and community centers in 16 states by HealthCorps, a non-profit organization Co-Founded by Dr. Mehmet Oz, daytime Emmy-winning host of The Dr. Oz Show.    The program was founded by Lynn Fredricks of FamilyCook Productions to explore culinary, food systems and gardening education, while battling obesity and chronic disease.

About Crooked Brook

Crooked Brook is part of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production and embroidery. Since 1989, they’ve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.

All Crooked Brook branded garments and accessories are proudly made to order in the U.S.A.

Because of their unparalleled attention to detail in tailoring, they were awarded a Supima® licensing agreement. These contracts are not awarded lightly. The applicants must meet requirements insuring the highest level of quality and integrity for any products bearing the Supima® brand. In addition, Crooked Brook designs and manufactures:

Uniforms: Men’s and women’s chef coats for the world’s most recognized chefs, hotels, casinos, spas and resorts as well as alumni chef jackets for the Culinary Institute of America. Each garment can be personalized with the customer’s choice of fabric, pockets, buttons, piping and embroidery. With a design studio in New York City, (the fashion and gastronomic capital of the world) and a production facility in Utica, New York, they’ve garnered international brand name recognition as the maker of the “World’s Highest Quality Chef Jackets™”.

Promotional products: Items, decorated apparel and accessories, such as jackets, hats, sweatshirts, hoodies, polo shirts, fleece blankets, sweatshirt blankets, button down shirts, fleece jackets, golf shirts, t-shirts, tote bags, and aprons that can be customized with the following apparel decorating methods:

Embroidery
Tackle Twill
Appliqué
Direct to Garment Printing (DTG)
Sublimation

Custom lab coats, uniforms and scrubs for nursing, medical, dental, scientific, engineering, technology & healthcare professionals.
Custom made apparel and accessories for men and women, including but not limited to: suits, shirts, Hawaiian shirts, pants, vests, dresses, skirts, gowns, jeans, boxer shorts, martial arts and yoga outfits.

Crooked Brook ships worldwide. Hours of operations are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST, seven days a week. Reach them at (315) 733-1992 or visit http://www.crookedbrook.com/ to learn more.

The Creamery’s Crème Fraîche won 1st place from the American Cheese Society in the Best Cultured Milk Product division in 2011.

New England Sales Director, Karen Daseke and the Crooked Brook design team settled on chef coat style #106, in Horizon Pink, 100% Organic Cotton Twill fabric with white piping on the collar, front and cuffs to complete the signature look that will closely match the Crème Faîche packaging.

The embroidery placement is as follows:

“Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery” logo embroidered on the left chest and “Crème Fraîche/ACS/1st Place 2011” on the right shoulder sleeve.

About Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery

Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery was started by two young visionaries devoted to new and non-traditional agriculture, Allison Hooper and Bob Reese. As a college student, Allison spent a summer traveling in France. She worked on a small family farm in Brittany, earning room and board while learning how to make all of the essentials of what was to become her life passion: cheesemaking. Bob always thought he would one day take over his grandparents’ dairy farm. Unfortunately by the time he finished his degree in Agriculture, they’d sold the farm. Appropriately enough, the improbable run as long term business partners began in 1984 during a dinner celebrating Vermont agricultural products. Bob was in charge of the dinner and desperately needed a locally made goat cheese for the French chef’s signature lamb dish. He reached out to Allison who was then working at a dairy lab and milking goats in Brookfield. Allison made the chèvre on the farm, Bob delivered it to the chef — the dinner was a success and Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery was born.

About Crème Fraîche or French-style Cultured Cream

After milking the cows, separate and set the fresh cream aside. Let the natural lactic bacteria take over, creating a thick, smooth, tart result known as crème fraîche. That was how they made it on the dairy farm in Brittany, France, where Allison Hooper worked more than thirty years ago as a farmhand.

When Bob Reese and Allison Hooper co-founded VBCC in 1984, their first product was Chèvre. Crème Fraîche, their first cows’ milk creation, followed close on its heels and gained instant acclaim from French chefs seeking cultured cream stateside. It is made with fresh, high quality Vermont cream from the local St. Albans Cooperative, a coop of 500 family farms in Northeast Vermont. Crème Fraîche is exquisitely rich, with a cultured, nutty flavor and creamy texture. A staple of French Cuisine, Crème Fraîche can be used as an ingredient for sauces, pastry, custard, or as a topping on pie, fruits and soups.

About Crooked Brook
Crooked Brook is part of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production and embroidery. Since 1989, they’ve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.

All Crooked Brook branded garments and accessories are proudly made to order in the U.S.A. Because of their unparalleled attention to detail in tailoring, they were awarded a Supima® licensing agreement. These contracts are not awarded lightly. The applicants must meet requirements insuring the highest level of quality and integrity for any products bearing the Supima® brand. In addition, Crooked Brook designs and manufactures:

Uniforms: Men’s and women’s chef coats for the world’s most recognized chefs, hotels, casinos, spas and resorts as well as alumni chef jackets for the Culinary Institute of America. Each garment can be personalized with the customer’s choice of fabric, pockets, buttons, piping and embroidery. With a design studio in New York City, (the fashion and gastronomic capital of the world) and a production facility in Utica, New York, they’ve garnered international brand name recognition as the maker of the “World’s Highest Quality Chef Jackets™”.

Promotional products: Items, decorated apparel and accessories, such as jackets, hats, sweatshirts, hoodies, polo shirts, fleece blankets, sweatshirt blankets, button down shirts, fleece jackets, golf shirts, t-shirts, tote bags, and aprons that can be customized with the following apparel decorating methods:
Embroidery
Tackle Twill
Appliqué
Direct to Garment Printing (DTG)
Sublimation
Custom lab coats, uniforms and scrubs for nursing, medical, dental, scientific, engineering, technology & healthcare professionals.
Custom made apparel and accessories for men and women, including but not limited to: suits, shirts, Hawaiian shirts, pants, vests, dresses, skirts, gowns, jeans, boxer shorts, martial arts and yoga outfits.

Crooked Brook ships worldwide. Hours of operations are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST, seven days a week. Reach them at (315) 733-1992 or visit http://www.crookedbrook.com/ to learn more.

BSW101
Size 10
Blue, 100% Organic Cotton Twill fabric
Left shoulder sleeve tailored welt pocket
Pink Troca buttons
Pink Sham piping; collar, cuffs and both fronts
Irregularities; None
Value: $178.00 including shipping

Terms & Conditions:

You must be 18 years or older to win.
Contest ends midnight (Eastern Standard Time) 05/23/12.
Winner will be chosen by sugarzen.wordpress.com and contacted by email.
Winner will have 48 hours to reply or a new winner will be chosen.
Crooked Brook will ship the prize to the winner within 30 days of contest end.
Physical address required for shipping; no PO boxes, US recipients only residing in one of the 48 contiguous states.

Go to Crooked Brook Chef Coat Giveaway 5 at SugarZen to find out how to enter.

About Ruth Rickey

Ruth Rickey is a Certified Master Sugar Artist, former lawyer, administrative law judge and bakery owner. Ruth was named the top Bakery Manager in the world for the IGA stores (3200 stores in 31 countries) in 1999, and then opened Ruth’s Sweete Justice Bakery in 2000. Ruth closed the bakery at the end of 2011, so that she could focus strictly on teaching and judging. Ruth began a custom product line of cutters, veneers and dusting powders and has started an educational blog called SugarZen where she gives advice and information to people in the sugar art field on subjects ranging from owning a cake business, attending cake shows, products and so much more.

Ruth has been seen on all 3 networks that have cake programming. She won WE TV’s Wedding Cake Wars, she assisted Pat Jacoby’s team twice in their victories on TLC’s Ultimate Cake Off and she has been featured in 3 different Food Network specials about the Oklahoma State Sugar Art Show. Her cakes have graced the pages of national and international publications for years.

Ruth was given The Sweet Life Hall of Fame award at the National Capital Area Cake Show in Virginia. She is also one of only a few dozen ICES Certified Master Sugar Artists in the world! Ruth is a member of the Advisory Board for American Cake Decorating Magazine.

Ruth regularly teaches and conducts demonstrations internationally.

About SugarZen Coat Giveaways

All Crooked Brook chef jackets are made to order in the USA, however, they have various styles and sizes that were not made according to the customer’s specifications, or have slight imperfections. These are the men’s and women’s chef coats Ruth is giving away.

Crooked Brook chef jacket prices start at $85 and go up to well over $200, and with some of the ones that Ruth is giving away, there is absolutely nothing wrong other than it is not what the customer ordered. For example: a size 16 chef jacket was made instead of a size 6, pocket placement on the left chest instead of the left shoulder sleeve or a red jacket with black piping was made instead of a black jacket with red piping.

By sponsoring giveaways; Crooked Brook moves inventory that would otherwise sit on a shelf while increasing brand awareness, Ruth’s followers get a chance to win high quality chef coats, and SugarZen gets increased traffic as the word spreads and more people enter the contest.

About Crooked Brook

Crooked Brook is part of the atelier division of an art studio that offers full service apparel design, pattern making, sample making, private-label small lot production and embroidery. Since 1989, they’ve built a strong reputation of providing top-notch apparel designs, patterns, fit and production samples for many brand name catalogs and retailers, as well as wardrobe and costumes for movies, television and theater.

All Crooked Brook branded garments and accessories are proudly made to order in the U.S.A.

Because of their unparalleled attention to detail in tailoring, they were awarded a Supima® licensing agreement. These contracts are not awarded lightly. The applicants must meet requirements insuring the highest level of quality and integrity for any products bearing the Supima® brand.

In addition, Crooked Brook designs and manufactures:

Uniforms, men’s and women’s chef coats for the world’s most recognized chefs, hotels, casinos, spas and resorts as well as alumni chef jackets for the Culinary Institute of America. Each garment can be personalized with the customer’s choice of fabric, pockets, buttons, piping and embroidery. With a design studio in New York City, (the fashion and gastronomic capital of the world) and a production facility in Utica, New York, they’ve garnered international brand name recognition as the maker of the “World’s Highest Quality Chef Jackets™”.

Promotional products, items, decorated apparel and accessories, such as jackets, hats, sweatshirts, hoodies, polo shirts, fleece blankets, sweatshirt blankets, button down shirts, fleece jackets, golf shirts, t-shirts, tote bags, and aprons that can be customized with the following apparel decorating methods:

• Embroidery
• Tackle Twill
• Appliqué
• Direct to Garment Printing (DTG)
• Sublimation

Custom lab coats, uniforms and scrubs for nursing, medical, dental, scientific, engineering, technology & healthcare professionals.

Custom made apparel and accessories for men and women, including but not limited to: suits, shirts, Hawaiian shirts, pants, vests, dresses, skirts, gowns, jeans, boxer shorts, martial arts and yoga outfits.

Crooked Brook ships worldwide. Hours of operations are 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. EST, seven days a week. Reach them at (315) 733-1992 or visit http://www.crookedbrook.com/ to learn more.