Michael Giletto is the Executive Chef for Cherry Valley Country Club located in Skillman, New Jersey, and a culinary instructor at the JNA Culinary Institute in Philadelphia, where he himself was trained in the culinary arts.
Chef Giletto was recently awarded honors as “2006 Celebrated Chef for the National Pork Board” and “2006 Delaware Valley's American Liver Foundation Spoke Chef”. Chef Giletto also donates his time for national and local charity events, numerous national and local magazine articles and newspapers and national and international television appearances. Chef Giletto is proud of his Japanese television show which was rated #1 in Japan. Chef Giletto has his own television pilot “Three Fine Dishes” as well as “Digital Cook Book on Demand on Comcast CN8”. He has 2 local radio shows, “Chefs Squeeze on Cuisine” WNJC 1360 AM which airs live every Saturday at 5 PM and “Bad Boys in the Kitchen” on WNJC 1360 AM airs every Tuesday at 5:30 PM. Chef Giletto has recipes in 5 published cookbooks and coming soon he will have an Instructional Internet cookbook series.
Prior to accepting his current position, Chef Giletto was Executive Chef at Pine Hill Golf Club in Pine Hill, New Jersey, where he earned countless awards and accolades. Before that, he served as Executive Chef at Concord Country Club in Concord Ville, Pennsylvania.
From January through August 2003, Chef Giletto was Executive Chef at Le Plumet Royale at The Peacock Inn in Princeton, NJ, where he received a variety of awards including the James Beard award for “Great Country Inn” Chef’s Series and the Zagat Survey award for “Distinction.”
Chef Giletto was also Complex Executive Chef at Sheraton Suites & Sheraton Four Points Airport Hotels; Executive Chef at Holiday Inn Philadelphia Stadium Hotel; Executive Chef and Food & Beverage Director at Hilton Garden Inn in Philadelphia; Executive Chef at Four Points Sheraton Rochester Riverside Hotel in Rochester, New York; and Sous Chef at Holiday Inn Select in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
He has participated in various food shows such as Taste of Burlington County and the ACF Metropolitan Penn Jersey Chef Extravaganza (2005) and has received medals in several food contests including First Place in the Sara Lee “Top This” Sauce Contest, First Place in the Stainless Steel Chef Competition and Third Place in US Foods 2004 Crab Cake Contest. Chef Giletto also serves as Executive Chef at private affairs for top government officials and conducts food demonstrations for a variety of organizations throughout New Jersey, New York, Delaware and Pennsylvania.
The Celebrated Chefs program is sponsored by the National Pork Board and designed to keep pork at the forefront of the latest menu trends by building excitement surrounding pork’s versatility, variety and profitability among chefs, foodservice operators and distributors. Celebrated Chefs are selected on an annual basis for their culinary excellence and expertise with pork. |
