ESTHER ROSE - Author of
"The Daily Feast"
DEE
SNIDER - Lead Singer of "Twisted Sister"
Legendary Rocker, Dee Snider of Twisted
Sister TEAMS UP WITH HORNITOS® TEQUILA to remix their classic hit “We’re
Not Gonna Take It” just in time for Cinco de Mayo. They’ve actually hired
a mariachi band to give it that Mexican flavor and will then be releasing the
track and subsequent video just in time to celebrate the holiday! All
part of Hornitos 2nd Annual Mariachi Mash Up contest that also gave fans the
opportunity to to win a role in the video, with the band. The 2nd Annual
Mariachi Mash Up follows the success of last year’s inaugural Mash Up featuring
the classic rock band Cheap Trick, who remixed their anthem “Surrender.”
Well he was just recently given the boot from “The Donald” on last week’s
Celebrity Apprentice! In June Twisted Sister's greatest hits will be
featured in the film version of Rock of Ages starring Tom Cruise. While
perhaps best known as the lead singer of 80's sensation, Twisted Sister, there
is so much more to Dee Snider. His recent starring role on Broadway in the hit
musical Rock Of Ages generated national TV appearances on The Today Show, CNN’s
Joy Behar Show and a legendary spot on The Jimmy Fallon Show where Dee guested
with The Spooks and Jimmy on Dee’s self penned hit, “I Wanna Rock”. The
Broadway run inspired him to make a brand new record for Razor & Tie
featuring some of Broadway's greatest songs in his own indomitable style.
"Dee Does Broadway" is slated for an early 2012 release. A big
year for Dee is assured. His autobiography, “Shut Up and Give Me The Mic”, will
be released in early 2012 from Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, right before
Warner Pictures releases the Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, Catherine Zeta Jones and
Russell Brand blockbuster film version of Rock Of Ages. The movie features two
of Dee's biggest hits. He has also starred in several reality TV shows
including Gone Country with John Rich, MTV’s Rock The Cradle with his son Jesse
and Growing Up Twisted, an A&E series featuring the entire Snider family
and their Long Island lifestyle. He is also a frequent host on MTV Networks and
his own nationally syndicated radio show House Of Hair is heard on more than
200 stations in North America, houseofhaironline.com. His career as a voiceover
artist has resulted in Dee being heard in many radio and TV commercials,
documentaries and a year long stint as the introductory voice on MSNBC. Dee
wrote, produced and starred in Dee Snider’s StrangeLand. This horror flick
immediately became a classic of the genre, and StrangeLand 2 is currently in
development. With the success of StrangeLand, Dee was tapped to host a weekly
radio show on all things horror, Fangoria Radio. In 2002, VH1 signed Dee to
star as himself in their original movie production of Warning: Parental
Advisory. Co-starring Mariel Hemingway, Jason Priestley and Griffin
Dunne, Dee re-created his role during the congressional record labeling
hearings of the mid 1980's. Battling the Beltway wives, most notably
Tipper Gore, Dee, along with Frank Zappa and John Denver, turned DC politics
upside down, carrying the banner of Dee’s Twisted Sister legendary anthem
“We're Not Gonna Take It”. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't going to
take it either. The California Governator enlisted Dee to help rally his
political troops all the way to the Governor's mansion in California. At
his last political rally in Sacramento, Schwarzenegger asked Dee to lead the
way in singing “We're Not Gonna Take It”. California listened and
the Terminator was elected Governor. Not to be outdone, the Mexican
Government recruited Dee as well, using the anthem in a TV campaign to gain
attention on their bid to set the country on a fiscal and judicial road to
recovery.
JOSHUA
HENDERSON - "Skillet Street Food"
Joshua Henderson, owner of Skillet Street
Food in Seattle and one of the four chefs featured in the collection, is
available for interviews. In addition to talking about the Street Eats Recipe
Collection, he can discuss the growing popularity of fast and convenient food
trucks. Henderson graduated from the Culinary Institute of America, Hyde Park,
in 1998 as valedictorian with honors. From there, he went on a circuitous route
of working for big food companies, hotels and restaurants, trying to find out
not what he wanted to do, but how. In 2004, while living in Los Angeles,
Henderson began a company that provided private chefs for photographers on
shoots traveling to multiple locations throughout the country. It was during
this time that his vision for food really began to take focus—on wheels. For
Henderson that meant approachable street food rooted in classic cuisine. And
so, Skillet Street Food was born. Henderson returned to Seattle, acquired an
Airstream trailer, retrofitted it and began serving bistro food to the lines of
hungry office workers outside the trailer’s service window. No other trend has
parked itself at the forefront of the culinary world quite like food trucks.
But these aren’t the stale doughnut and questionable hotdog stands of the past.
A new generation of chefs in cities across the country have been giving up
brick and mortar concepts and putting their unique cuisines on four wheels. If
you’re not in an urban setting, it doesn’t mean you have to miss out on these
delectable mobile dishes. CanolaInfo has partnered with four food truck
chefs from across the country to create the Street Eats Recipe Collection. All
chefs have shared two of their most popular dishes for the collection,
including dishes like Cheddar-Parmesan Poutine with Gravy, Roasted Beet Salad
with Citrus Vinaigrette, Crab Cake Sliders with Creamy Apple Coleslaw and
Sinful Bliss Cupcakes with Sweetened Whipped Cream Frosting.
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