The Food Guru

Peter Harman C.E.C. Peter is the CEO of Food Guru LLC, Chick N. Lipp LLC and President of The Chicken Lip Foundation, the non-profit wing of the Food Guru empire. 

Peter is the world’s leading expert on the preparation of straight forward REAL food, as well as a genius at twisting common dishes and creating foods that are familiar, but fantastically different and exciting!

Peter is the host of Food Guru Moments which are 90 second cooking videos produced in his Food Guru University TV Studio kitchen. In October, 2005 the Food Guru was the first chef to podcast a video. Food Guru video podcasts have been viewed by over a million subscribers from around the world including Singapore, Japan, Germany, The Netherlands and England.

Peter's goal is to make Food Guru.com a hub of culinary education and teach his friends to be better cooks 90 seconds at a time. Food Guru has transformed Food Guru Moments into the World's First Video Cookbook. The Video Cookbook is the Future of cooking instruction and the Food Guru is proud to be a pioneer in this new technology. When the Student is ready The Food Guru will Appear! You can also download Food Guru Moments to your iPod and take them with you anywhere in the world.

The Food Guru is the author of  3 cookbooks, "The Food Guru's Cookbook", "The Manly Art of Macho Cookery" and "Martini's Martinis".

The Food Guru spends his days working on the expansion of his new restaurant concept "Graze" which now has locations in Iowa City, Davenport and West Des Moines. Peter has also created the restaurant concepts for Martini's Grille and Lips To Go  in Burlington, Iowa and Chick's on the Square in Macomb, Illinois. 

Peter lives in West Des Moines with his wife Kim and their little Dachschund "Toots". Peter has two sons, Tyler and Evan, Tyler is a Staff Sergeant in the United States Air Force and Evan is a Cadet at the United States Air Force Academy. 

Chef Harman was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1959, but grew up in Vermont where he was always being kicked out of the fridge by his mom. As a kid, Peter’s passion was baseball. He loves to compete. His goal in life was to be the catcher for the New York Yankees and become a famous baseball player and open a restaurant, with his name on it. However, that was not to be. So now Peter is working on his real passion –food– with plans to make a huge mark on the American Culinary landscape.

Peter has spent over a decade working on Sanibel Island Florida, as Executive Chef and Food & Beverage Director of several prestigious resorts hotels, such as Sundial Beach and Tennis Resort (Windows on the Water) and Casa Ybel Resort (Thistle Lodge).

Peter is the past president of the Southwest Florida Chefs Association, and was also the youngest ever Certified Executive Chef (C.E.C.) of the American Culinary Federation in 1984. He has been a member of several prestigious culinary organizations, including The Chaine Des Rotisseurs, Les Amis de Vin, The Escoffier Society, as well as the winner of many American Culinary Federation Gold Medals! Peter received his formal training at the Essex Junction Educational Center in Essex Junction, Vermont,  Eckerd College in St. Petersburg Florida and The American Culinary Federation Certification Program.

In the spring of 2000, Peter founded the Chicken Lip Foundation, a non-profit organization that creates unique fund raising opportunities and events to help local charities help themselves. The main fundraiser is the annual "Iowa's Largest Community Basket, a totally unique fund raising concept, check it out on this site under Chicken Lip Foundation. Since it's creation, "The Chicken Lip Foundation" has raised almost 1,000,000 to support local non-profit organizations.