What Julia Child And Jacques Pepin Have Done For Modern French Cooking, What Diana Kennedy Did For Mexican Cooking, Grady Spears Has Done And Continues To Do For Cowboy Cooking. What Mark Miller Is To Southwestern Cuisine, What Emeril Lagasse Is To Modern American Cuisine, Grady Spears Is To Cowboy Cuisine. Putting His Indelible Brand On The Genre, He Is Both Creator And Charismatic Personality, Enthralling Cooks Of All Levels Of Expertise With His Endearing, Joyous Approach To Hearty Fare. Named One Of The Top Five Chefs Of 1998 By Restaurant And Institutions, And Rising Star Of 1999 By Restaurant Hospitality Magazine, Grady’s Work Has Been Widely Praised In Such Prestigious Publications As The New York Times, Texas Monthly, P.O.V., Martha Stewart Living, Country Homes, Southern Living, And Countless Others. 

A Native Of Fort Worth, Grady Spears Would Rather Be Called A Cowboy Cook Than A Chef. The Long, Tall Texan Earned A Meager Living Punching And Selling Cattle Before Turning To Restaurant Work To Pay The Bills, And His Expertise In The Kitchen Came About Unexpectedly: The Moment A Chef Simply Quit In The Midst Of A Busy Weekend Dinner Shift At The Restaurant Grady Was Managing In The West Texas Town Of Marathon, Grady Stepped Up To The Stove, Grabbed A Pan, And Produced Meals For The Dining Room Full Of 100 Hungry People. Like They Say, The Rest Is History.

Since Then, He’s Created Menus And Concepts In His Signature Cowboy Style For  The Reata Restaurants He Co-Owned In Alpine And Fort Worth, Texas, And In Beverly Hills, California, The Roadrunner in Las Vegas, Nevada, The Chisholm Club In Fort Worth, The Burning Pear In Sugarland, Texas And The Nutt House In Granbury, Texas.  His Cookbooks To Date Are A Cowboy In The Kitchen, Which He Wrote With Award-Winning Author Robb Walsh, As Well As Cowboy Cocktails And The Great Steak Book, All From Ten Speed Press. He Also Was The Primary Contributor To The Very Popular Dallas Cowboys Family Cookbook And In 2004 He Released With Award Winning Food And Travel Writer/Author June Naylor, The Texas Cowboy Kitchen. In October 2007 The Texas Cowboy Kitchen was released in trade paperback by Andrews McMeel. His Latest Work Tentatively Titled, “The Cowboy Way, Cooking With Grady Spears” Is Set For Publication by Andrews McMeel in Fall 2009, this is the companion book to his new PBS series titled “The Cowboy Way, Cooking With Grady Spears” which will begin production in the Summer of 2009.  
 
 Over The Years, Grady Has Cooked On Television For Shows That Include: Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Rosie O’donnell Show, Donnie And Marie, as well as Various Shows For The Food Network Including The Cowboy’s Kitchen, food fights and others. Grady Has Also Cooked At The Texas Governor’s Mansion For George And Laura Bush Before They Made The Move To Washington, D.C. and Has  Rubbed Elbows With The Culinary Elite, Cooking With The Likes Of Martha Stewart, Mark Miller,  Stephan Pyles As Well As The Late Jean-Louis Palladin And Numerous Others. He Has Endorsed Or Done Work For Various National Brands To Date That Include: Pepcid Complete, bud-light, The Texas Peanut Producers, Miller Lite, Legend Airlines, The American Beef Producers, Woodford Reserve, Nolan Ryan’s Tender Aged Beef And Others.

He is currently working on restaurant concepts with long time friend Louis Lambert. Their Newest Restaurant “Dutch’s Hamburgers” opened in june 2007 in Fort Worth, Texas which was follwed by another  concept “Lambert’s Fort Worth” which opened in May of 2008.

Facts

Restaurants

• The Gage Hotel (Marathon, Texas)
• The Reata Restaurants (Alpine & Fw, Texas & Beverly Hills, California)
• The Chisholm Club (Ft. Worth, Texas)
• The Nutt House (Granbury, Texas)
• The Roadrunner (Las Vegas, Nevada)
• The Burning Pear (Sugarland, Texas)
• Dutch’s (Fort Worth, Texas) June 2007
• “Lambert’s”’ Fort Worth (Fort Worth, Texas) February  2008

Current Books in publication

• A Cowboy in the Kitchen (100,000 in print)
• Dallas Cowboys Family Cookbook (20,000 in print)
• Cowboy Cocktails (40,000 in print)
• The Great Steak Book (60,000 in print)
• The Texas Cowboy Kitchen, Recipes From The Chisholm Club (30,000 in print)
• The Cowboy Way, Cooking With Grady Spears (Fall 2008 Release)

Broadcast

• Good Morning America
• The Rosie O’Donnell Show
• Donnie And Marie
• The Cowboys’ Kitchen (The Food Network)
• Homelife (The Discovery Channel)
• Hit Trips (Country Music Television)
• Cooking Live With Sara Moulton (The Food Network)
• Better Homes And Garden TV
• Home Matters
• In Food Today (The Food Network)
• Good Morning Texas
• NBC Later Today
• PBS Barney
• “The Cowboy Way, Cooking With Grady Spears” (Fall 2008 Production)

Endorsements

• Pepcid Complete
• The Texas Peanut Producers
• Legend Airlines
• The American Beef Producers
• Woodford Reserve
• Nolan Ryan’s Tender Aged Beef
• Billito’s Best West Texas Raised Beef
• Ranchers’ Reserve Beef
• Chinnette Paper Plates
• Bud-Light