Dine Around the Market with Chef Ashley Simone

The French Market will host a continued cooking demonstrations and tasting series with Ashley Simone. Chef Ashley Simone straddles both sides of the camera as producer and talent. She was trained in dance at the Academy of Movement and Music (in Oak Park, IL) and then went to study at Marymount Manhattan College and Columbia College Chicago.

At 21, she ran off and joined the circus and toured as a dancer with Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey. She has performed on stage and on-camera in a variety of roles, many of which included dancing.
When she is not performing or producing, she’s probably cooking up a storm. She has recently finished her degree in culinary arts at the Illinois Institute of Art-Chicago, writes a cooking blog and is working on her first cookbook. Foodgasm is her first cooking show. Chef Simone will demonstrate recipes inspired by one of The Chicago French Market vendors; Buen Apetito followed by tastings.