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Hollywood's cutthroat acting scene can send even the strongest personalities running for the hills. That's precisely where aspiring actress Manouschka Guerrier ended up, combining her passion for acting with a hearty arsenal of Haitian-inspired recipes on the Food Network's "Private Chefs of Beverly Hills."

In Guerrier's family, Sunday dinners happened every night. "My grandmother and my mother cooked every single day," she says, describing meals heavy on rice and beans and incomplete without a meat of some sort. "The older I got, the more I started resenting having to eat rice and beans all the time," she says, resentment that quickly faded when she got to L.A. 14 year ago and found few, if any, Haitian restaurants to choose from.

Bringing the comforts of home -- Miami, Florida -- to her new digs on the West Coast would become Guerrier's primary goal, lending itself to a blog where Food Network...

Food Network's docu-soap and peek into the high-demand world of culinary glamour in Private Chefs of Beverly Hills. This delicious, scripted romp follows six cooks from Big City Chefs, Beverly Hills' premiere private-chef placement agency. .Private Chefs of Beverly Hills. follows six chefs - Jesse Brune, Manouschka Guerrier, Sasha Perl-Raver, Brian Hill, Stuart O'Keeffe, and Brooke Peterson - from Big City Chefs, as they are dispatched in pairs for glammy catered affairs. On call 24/7, the chefs must cater to the whims of their over-the-top and eccentric clientele in Los Angeles' most posh neighborhood. The cast includes six chefs with varied culinary expertise and background. The series debuted in December 2009 as a six-episode mini season, and...

The Botox party has moved from the "Real Housewives of New Jersey" to Food Network, and you're invited.

In the cable channel's first-ever docu-soap, "Private Chefs of Beverly Hills," six chefs from the Big City Chefs agency will have their culinary adventures in Hollywood exposed, beginning Friday, April 9th at 10 p.m.  Et/Pt.

Not only is their clientele wealthy, they're eccentric. In the premiere, the chefs are dispatched in pairs to cook food for very specialized gatherings: A Botox/spa party where smiles are brightened and foreheads are tightened; a doggy "shower," where the partygoers arrive on two feet or four; and "glamping," a "glamorous camping" trip that has all the luxuries of home ... even private chefs.

 

The six chefs -- Jesse Brune, Manouschka Guerrier, Brian Hill, Stuart O'Keeffe, Sasha Perl-Raver and Brooke Peterson -- are a ridiculously good-looking lot, and after having sampled their food at a sneak peek party,...