Celebrity Chef: Ingrid Hoffmann set for January 29th

January 14, 2008, (OKLAHOMA CITY) – Oklahoma City’s highly anticipated cooking event returns bigger and better for its eighth year and an unexplored theme.  Saints Heart and Vascular Institute will celebrate the seventh anniversary of its opening with Celebrity Chef:  Ingrid Hoffmann. January 29th at 7pm at Cox Convention Center, Hoffmann will light up the stage with her Latin take on heart healthy cooking.

Media interviews with Ingrid Hoffmann are now available on January 29th from 6:00 am to 9:00 am and again from 3:30 pm to 6:00 pm that day.  Please call (405) 272-6334 now to book your interview time as these spots fill up quickly.

Raised in Colombia, Ingrid moved to Miami during her adult years.  There she opened Rocca, the first restaurant to feature tabletop cooking on heated lava rocks-it was featured on Robin Leach's Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous. Hoffmann got her start in television cooking with a bi-weekly cooking and style segment on Despierta America, the most popular morning show in the US Hispanic market, and the number two morning show in the US (after The Today Show).

Ingrid launched her own show, Delicioso with Ingrid Hoffmann, on Latin America's Cosmopolitan Network in 2004 and soon premiered on DirecTV in September 2005, which propelled her popularity to new heights. In November 2006, the show premiered in its second season on a new network - Galavision. Each episode centers around a theme that Ingrid uses to connect segments on menu planning, shopping, cooking, and decorating. The show's light-hearted, interactive style draws in viewers for both Ingrid's talents as well as her vibrant personality. After Ingrid's March 2006 appearance on The Martha Stewart Show - her first national segment in the English market - the Food Network called.

Tickets to Celebrity Chef: Ingrid Hoffmann are $15 and can be purchased by calling Saints Physician Referral at 405-231-8866.  (Attendees will be responsible for paid parking.)  Tickets go on sale Monday, January 12th at 8:00 am.

Celebrity Chef: Ingrid Hoffmann is the eighth event in the Celebrity Chef series joins the ranks of Bobby Flay, Tyler Florence, Rachel Ray, Sandra Lee, Giada De Laurentiis, Dave Lieberman, and Curtis Stone.

Contact: Sheradee Hurst - 405-272-6334