Tina Nordström is a Swedish celebrity chef

Celebrity chef

A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television. Historically, celebrity chefs have included Antoine Carême and Martino da Como.-External...

, television personality, and pitch lady from Helsingborg

Helsingborg

Helsingborg is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 97,122 inhabitants in 2010. Helsingborg is the centre of an area in the Øresund region of about 320,000 inhabitants in north-west Scania, and is Sweden's closest point to Denmark, with the Danish city...

, Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

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She hosted the second season of New Scandinavian Cooking

New Scandinavian Cooking

New Scandinavian Cooking is a Scandinavian cooking show which over the course of five seasons was hosted by Andreas Viestad, Tina Nordström and Claus Meyer, produced by Tellus Works in collaboration with American Public Television...

on PBS stations on American television, replacing Andreas Viestad

Andreas Viestad

Andreas Viestad is a Norwegian food columnist and TV chef. He has hosted five seasons of New Scandinavian Cooking broadcast in the U.S., China, Germany, Italy, Finland and on BBC Food in over fifty countries, and has a monthly column in The Washington Post titled "The Gastronomer"...

 as host of the show; she was succeeded by Claus Meyer. She also appeared in a subsequent series featuring the same cast in rotation called "Perfect Day", produced by Tellusworks/Anagram Produktion and directed by Andreas Lindergard.

Besides the cookery show Mat ("Food"), which she made together with Tomas Tengby, she has written cookbook

Cookbook

A cookbook is a kitchen reference that typically contains a collection of recipes. Modern versions may also include colorful illustrations and advice on purchasing quality ingredients or making substitutions...

s—Tinas mat ("Tina's food"), Tina and Jättegott Tina.

Nordström won the Swedish Let's Dance television show in 2008. Nordström moved to the United States

United States

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 in 2009 and currently resides in New Jersey

New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Northeastern and Middle Atlantic regions of the United States. , its population was 8,791,894. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York, on the southeast and south by the Atlantic Ocean, on the west by Pennsylvania and on the southwest by Delaware...

. She is now working as an infomercial salesperson. Her first pitch was the Egg Genie, an egg cooker. Her latest pitch is the Better Burger Maker, a hamburger press.

External links

• New Scandinavian Cooking: New Scandinavian Cooking - Meet Tina Nordström
• Tina Nordström at the Internet Movie Database
• Pattern for Tina Nodström's apron
• See Tina's dance performance in the Swedish Let's dance 2008 television show, where she won. (Web page in Swedish).