The Arizona Biltmore invites you step "Inside the Chef's Studio" and learn from noted cookbook authors and chefs who live and work in Los Angeles and Hollywood. The one-of-a-kind series of special cooking classes takes place in the working kitchens of the Arizona Biltmore and gives you a behind-the-scenes peek into the world of chefs. Rub elbows with master chefs and learn new techniques as they guide you through the steps to prepare their recipes — and then savor the flavors of what you've prepared!

Each class includes a cookbook, instruction and a tasting of food prepared.

July 2 & 3 — Susan Irby
Chef Susan Irby is the guru of the "healthy bikini lifestyle" — good eating as a lifestyle so you look and feel your best. She expounds on her cut-the-calories-but-keep-the-flavor approach on her popular radio show, Bikini Lifestyles, aired on 790 KABC in Los Angeles but with listeners worldwide from Italy, France and Germany to Australia and Canada. Her seven books, including "Substitute Yourself Skinny" and "Boost Your Metabolism," focus on lifestyle change rather than a short-term diet. The Bikini Chef has spread her message in numerous newspaper and magazine articles, as the host of the OC Home & Garden Show, on TV appearances, in interviews on her radio show with everyone from Wolfgang Puck to fashion designer Donna Karan — and now at the Hollywood & Wine festival at the Arizona Biltmore.

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July 16 & 17 — Gesine Bullock-Prado
As head of her celebrity sister's stellar production company, Gesine Bullock-Prado seemingly had it all with a closet full of designer clothes, the ear of influential studio heads — everything except for the fulfillment of her secret passion, baking. With every sugary, buttery confection to emerge from her oven, Gesine took one step closer to her true destiny. Before long, she and her husband left the trappings of their Hollywood lifestyle behind, headed to Vermont and founded Gesine Confectionary. And they never looked back. The Pastry Chef Extraordinaire has appeared on the Food Network and The Today Show, and has been featured in Ladies Home Journal, People Magazine, LA Weekly and more. Her first cookbook, "My Life from Scratch: A Sweet Journey of Starting Over, One Cake at a Time," has now been followed by "Sugar Baby: Confections, Candies, Cakes & Other Delicious Recipes for Cooking with Sugar." Next up: "Pie It Forward," slated for release April 2012. Get ready for a sweet experience at her cooking classes.

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July 23 & 24 — Chef Jamie Gwen
Chef Jamie Gwen shares her tantalizing recipes and culinary wisdom in cook books, appearances on the Food Network and The Family Channel, and as a featured chef at such events as The Epcot Food & Wine Festival at Walt Disney World. Her weekly radio show, "Food & Wine with Chef Jamie Gwen," is heard throughout Southern California every Sunday on KFWB 980.

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July 30 & 31 — Chef Linda Bauer
Linda Bauer is a prolific author of cookbooks that celebrate American cuisine including Recipes from Historic Texas, America, Lousiana, California, Colorado and New England, The Great American Sampler Cookbook series, and her latest, Captiol Hill Cooks, a collection of favorite recipes from every president from George Washington to Obama plus many members of Congress. Between her appearances on The Today Show, CBS This Morning, Fox News and CNN, and activities with the International Association of Cooking Professionals and the National Press Club, she found time to bring the best of culinary Americana to cooking classes at the Arizona Biltmore.

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Stars and starbursts in the sky. Join in the celebration of America's 235th birthday in style, as Academy Award Winner Jeff Bridges and The Abiders performing songs from Crazy Heart and more light it up July 3rd. Followed by a fireworks spectacular on the Squaw Peak Lawn.

This event is sold out.

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