Chef Tiffany Collins - Introduction

Chef Tiffany Collins, culinary director for the Texas Beef Council (TBC), is as skilled at communicating cuisine as she is at preparing it.  She has redefined the chef’s traditional role by taking culinary messages and information directly to consumers at events as varied as giant home shows to television appearances to educational presentations before select audiences.

“Consumers want nutrition, convenience and innovation when it comes to recipes,” Chef Collins says.  “My goal as culinary director of the Texas Beef Council is to make sure I provide beef ideas that meet all three needs.”

At TBC, Chef Collins is responsible for developing, testing and adapting beef recipes tailored to Texans’ tastes.  Many of her creations appear on the TBC website www.txbeef.org.  Chef Collins also provides culinary tips on the site as well as through a monthly e-newsletter, Beef Bytes.  Her role includes conducting cooking demonstrations and culinary educational seminars for consumers, other chefs (both U.S. and foreign), supermarket retailers, dietitians and physicians, and even beef producers themselves.  Her appearances range from live television cooking demonstrations across the state showcasing beef and reaching millions of consumers to small, private seminars.

Chef Collins received a bachelor of science from Texas Christian University in family studies, nutrition and consumer science in 1987.  She later studied culinary arts at Johnson &Wales University in Charleston, South Carolina.  Additional experience includes developing the Dillard’s and Southern Living Home Design Seminar and serving as a spokesperson for Cooking Light, Coastal Living Magazine and Nolan Ryan All Natural Tender Aged Beef in television and personal appearances. 

“My appreciation for cooking, entertaining and fitness fits perfectly with my position with the Texas beef industry to provide consumers with information on nutrition, convenience and innovation,” Chef Collins says.  “Beef is the one food that meets all those criteria time and again.”