Prudence Sloane | Biography

Biography

Prudence Sloane is a television and radio food show host, culinary educator and food journalist as well as the founder of Prudence Sloane's Cooking School in Hampton, Connecticut. Her radio show, Simply Food with Prudence Sloane airs on The Talk of Connecticut WDRC-AM 1360 (Hartford), WMMW-AM 1470 (Meriden), WWCO-AM 1240 (Waterbury), WSNG-AM 610 (Torrington). She is a weekend chef on WFSB Channel 3 Eyewitness News. Her TV and radio shows credits include "Let's Eat! with Prudence Sloane," AT&T Cable TV, Lifetime TV Celebrating Women, The Taste of Today, NBC 30, Radio Cookbook, WHUS, and the Food Schmooze, Connecticut Public Radio where she was a co-creator, weekly guest and associate producer.

Sloane presently writes on food and wine with her husband Bob Chaplin for Hartford Magazine, Home Living Connecticut, Connecticut Business Magazine and Decades. Her work has appeared The Shore Line Times, The New England Wine Gazette and Legends magazine. She lectures and teaches throughout Connecticut and teaches food and wine pairing with her husband, Bob Chaplin, wine writer.

Sloane graduated with honors from The Institute of Culinary Education's professional program (formally Peter Kump's New York Cooking School) and studied kitchen design at Parsons School of Design in New York. She is a food stylist for print and television and consults on kitchen design for cooks.

Bob Chaplin

Bob Chaplin, is an internationally known artist, wine writer and landscape designer.

Chaplin is an artist working in mixed media. Having moved to New York from England in 1986, and then to northeast Connecticut in 1989, Bob Chaplin investigates contemporary perceptions of landscape. Since moving to America he has taught at U.C.O.N.N. at Storrs, and the Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, where he co-curated "The Edge of Town" at the Joseloff Gallery in 1996. He has lectured at the Yale Center for British Art. In 1993 he was awarded a Connecticut Commission of the Arts Bursary. He was Artist in Residence at the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York in 1997, and at The Alden Weir National Historic Site in Wilton, Connecticut in 2000.

Bob Chaplin has had over 40 solo shows since 1975 including exhibitions at The QueensÕ Museum, N.Y.; 55 Mercer, N.Y.; Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis; Riverside Studios, London; Arnolfini Gallery, England; Galerie Fenna De Vries Rotterdam, Holland and The Henie Onstad Arts Center in Norway. He has been included in group shows at the Art Institute Of Chicago; The Tate Gallery, London; Real Art Ways, Hartford; Art Space, New Haven; Atrium Gallery, University Of Connecticut; The Hudson River Museum, N.Y.; The Museum Of Modern Art, Oxford, England; "Photokina", Cologne, Germany, and the Milan Triennale in Italy. His art works and limited edition books are included in many collections including The National Gallery, Washington; The Whitney Museum of American Art Library, New York; The Museum of Modern Art Library, N.Y.; The Tate Gallery and Victoria & Albert Museum in London; Stedlijk Museum, Holland; The National Museum, Cracow, Poland; New York Public Library; Yale Center for British Art, New Haven; The Getty Research Institute Library, California and the Library of Congress, Washington.

Prudence Sloane is available for print and radio interviews and for media appearances. For these opportunities, E-mail to lets.eat@earthlink.net