Cliff Young (a.k.a. "The Minister of Culinary Awareness") relishes his 35+

years of experience in the restaurant industry, from humble beginnings

as a dishwasher in a truck stop in Wichita Kansas to designing and

building his own award-winning coffee houses in Southern California

Cliff now has many titles besides that of a restaurateur he is now a: TV

personality, public speaker, writer, world traveler, gourmand, award

winning coffee roaster/aficionado, and a proud father of two teenage

daughters.  

This infamously quirky, witty host has become anything but pedestrian,

as he continues to search out and introduce his devout viewers of the

multi-award winning PBS Television series. Cliff encounters the

passionate, the wild and the downright outrageous personalities and

places that help define “what great food is all about”. Whether it is

eating with a group of coffee workers in Guatemala, a world class

winemaker in Napa, flying into small airport cafes and meeting the

locals, cooking with some of the best chefs or one of his celebrity

friends, Young refuses to yield to middle age and boring food.