Presenter Profile
Aaron Flores
A chef serving the gluten-free community
Aaron Flores is a chef with a range of experiences, from serving as executive chef to doing cooking demonstrations to planning and implementing conference menus for those with food allergies.
Currently Aaron is Executive Chef and Sommelier at the Doubletree Hotel Oakbrook Chicago in Oakbrook, Illinois, and Executive Chef for the Celiac Sprue Association of North America.
As chef and owner of Chef Aaron Inc., he designs and implements systems to handle special diet requests within restaurants and hotels. He has also served as Culinary Conference planner for the Annual Celiac Conferences.
His experience cooking for the gluten-free community is impressive:
- 2007 Celiac Service Award, Celiac Sprue Association
- Featured Gluten-Free Living Healthy Chef, WPRI Fox Providence, Rhode Island (2006)
- Host of “In the Kitchen” Internet roundtable on celiac disease and cooking gluten-free (2006-2008)
- Speaker, Educator and Conference Planner for the Celiac Sprue Association (2004-2006)
- Speaker, Educator and Conference Planner for the Gluten Intolerance Group of North America 2004-2006