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    Meet the chef who says he is 'the brains' behind Kristin Cavallari's new cookbook

    by Tracy Swartz, Chicago Tribune Oct 12, 2020 6 minutes

    CHICAGO - Elmhurst, Illinois-based chef Mike Kubiesa - who partnered with Kristin Cavallari on the new cookbook, "True Comfort" - is ready to get off the sidelines and focus on his goal of becoming a celebrity TV chef.

    Kubiesa said he met former Bears quarterback Jay Cutler in 2015 while cooking for players and coaches at Halas Hall in Lake Forest. Cutler offered him a job as his family's chef. He said he fed the Cutler-Cavallari clan - which includes kids Camden, Jaxon and Saylor - until last year.

    The 29-year-old chef said he now cooks for Bulls forward Otto Porter Jr. while also working dinner parties and consulting for clients. Cutler and Cavallari, meanwhile, split in April after nearly seven years of marriage. The following month came the announcement about the end of "Very Cavallari," a TV show that followed Cavallari as she expanded her Nashville-based Uncommon James lifestyle brand and opened a store in Chicago.

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