Rosebud Benitez is a Filipina celebrity chef and the host of Quickfire, a 10-minute television cooking show broadcast on GMA News TV (formerly known as Q, now GTV), a sister station of GMA Network.[1] It has an offshoot DVD compilation of highlight episodes.[2] Before Quickfire, Benitez was part of the culinary group program Ka-Toque, that spawned a whole new generation of broadcast cuisine productions and chef-hosts.[3] Though wedged within a smorgasbord of equally sociable young chefs in Ka-Toque, Benitez became the first in the group to be given a solo show and the only non-actress to be invited by GMA Artist Center to join its register of contract stars.[4]

Rosebud Benitez
Chef Rosebud Benitez in 2011
Born
Rosebud Benitez

1977 (age 4849)
Quezon City, Philippines
Known forCelebrity chef
Awards2009 People Asia’s Women of Style and Substance
2010 PMPC Star Awards for TV
Chef Rosebud Benitez on the set of Ka-Toque, with guest Senator Francis Escudero

After graduating from the Center for Culinary Arts, Manila, Benitez (who has the nickname “Chef Mom”)[5] has become a public culinary figure in the Philippines, billboards for the food company Ajinomoto and status as a requested chef to conduct cooking demonstrations for corporate events and TV programs.[6] She has hosted and presented media and live events[7] and has appeared as a guest in TV productions of varying formats and genres.[8] She has also been featured in lifestyle magazines, broadsheets, photo exhibits, and food blogs on wmn.ph;[9] selected as one of the seven society women to represent the scent of S.T. Dupont Rose in Manila; nominated in the 2009 and 2010 PMPC Star Awards for TV;[10] and honored as one of People Asia’s “Women of Style and Substance” for 2009.[11]

Benitez lives in Quezon City with her children Katrina and Kyle.[12]

Filmography

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Television

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References

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  1. "Host (Rosebud Benitez)" Archived 2011-02-07 at the Wayback Machine, Telebisyon.Net, undated (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  2. "Chef Mom Rosebud's Quickfire - 10-minute Kitchen Wonders, available na sa DVD", Pilipino Star Ngayon, 3 September 2009 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  3. "GMA welcomes QTV, their newest 'kapuso'", ClickTheCity.com, 11 November 2005 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  4. , iGMA.tv, 4 April 2008 Archived June 29, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Walden Sadiri, "Anchorwoman and Chef Mom: Women of Style and Substance", Manila Bulletin, 28 October 2009 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  6. Jocelyn Valle, "Rosebud Benitez on being a chef: 'It’s not a glamorous job'", Manila Bulletin, 28 October 2009 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  7. "So orange, so Chowking", The Philippine Star, 15 April 2010 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  8. "Rosebud Benitez on The Sweet Life (1/3)", uploaded to YouTube.com (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  9. Walden Sadiri, "Get to know your celebrity bloggers on WMN.ph", Manila Bulletin, 30 July 2009 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  10. "NOMINEES AT THE PMPC STAR AWARDS FOR TV 2010 AND OUR TAKE ON POSSIBLE WINNERS", Media Newser Philippines, 26 October 2010 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  11. Walden Sadiri, "Anchorwoman and Chef Mom: Women of Style and Substance", Manila Bulletin, 28 October 2009 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
  12. Angelo Comsti, Rosebud Benitez, Yummy, 2 March 2010 (retrieved 20 February 2012)
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