Fran Costigan & Kathy Gold - Not So Plain Vanilla

*Fran Costigan* is internationally renowned as the authority on vegan desserts. Trained at the New York Restaurant School and Natural Gourmet Institute, Fran was a chef in both traditional and vegan pastry kitchens before moving into teaching over 20 years ago. A lifelong chocoholic and long time vegan, Fran’s latest book, Vegan Chocolate: Unapologetically Luscious and Decadent Dairy Free Desserts, (Running Press 2013) is for all who madly, deeply love chocolate desserts, whether or not dietary considerations are an issue. Her previous cookbook, More Great Good Dairy-Free Desserts Naturally (Book Publishing Company 2006) is the basis of the Costigan Vegan Baking Boot Camp Intensive®. For more information, www.francostigan.com. After a successful 20-year career in finances as a portfolio manager, *Chef Kathy Gold* followed her passion into the kitchen, training at Le Cordon Bleu. In 2005, she opened the In the Kitchen Cooking School, a cooking school and event space in Haddonfield, NJ. She was a three term member of the Les Dames d’Escoffier International Board of Directors and is a past President of the Philadelphia Chapter. Kathy has appeared as a guest on the National Public Radio program Radio Times with Marty Moss-Coane, and CNBC featured Kathy in Escaping the Cube, a special that highlighted her career path from Wall Street to the professional kitchen