Two Celebrity Chefs From Miami Join Thanksgiving Culinary Hotline

MIAMI, FL — With Thanksgiving less than 10 days away, JENNIE-O turkey brand has enlisted the help of culinary experts and celebrity chefs to answer consumers' questions about preparing their holiday meals. Chefs will be on hand to take calls at 1-800-TURKEYS (887-5397) 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. (CT) starting Thursday and through Thanksgiving Day.

Two Miami-area chefs, Adrianne Calvo and Grace Ramirez, will participate in this culinary hotline.

After finishing at the top of her class at Johnson & Wales University, Calvo's career path led her to become a restaurateur, cookbook author and TV personality. She's known for a signature style called “eclectic maximum flavor.”

Once named Miami's Best Chef by Miami New Times, Calvo is chef and owner of two Miami restaurants – Redfish and Cracked – with menus featuring culinary creations ranging from high high-end gastronomy to high-end junk food. She is bilingual, Spanish speaking and taking calls on Monday. She’ll also offer an online cooking class, demonstrating how to cook a turkey, on Saturday via Zoom.

Miami-born and Venezuela-raised, Ramirez has lived all over the world and built a career that is highly engaged in food-related philanthropic efforts with global organizations including World Central Kitchen. In 2018, she was the recipient of the Distinguished Latina Star Award by the Puerto Rican Bar Association and was featured in Cherrybombe's 100.

A cookbook author and TV personality, Ramirez is the host of the hit series “Destino con Sabor” and “De Chuparse los Dedos,” and a judge on the all-new original series “Chef a Domicilio.” She is also bilingual and Spanish speaking. She’ll be answering questions on the hotline on Thanksgiving.

Other participating chefs include Matt Abdoo, Richard Ingraham, Christina Machamer, Hadassah Patterson, Dan Phelps, MacKenzie Smith and Bev Weidner. Each chef will work at the hotline on a different day.

Aside from the 1-800-TURKEYS hotline, home cooks can also reach a Jennie-O consumer engagement specialist via live chat at the JENNIE-O website and, new this year, by texting the word Turkey to 73876 through Nov. 29.