Sherry Yard

Sherry Yard (born January 11, 1964)[5][6][7] is an American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author.

Yard has served as a chef in several Wolfgang Puck restaurants, including Spago,[10][7][8] Rainbow Room and Tribeca Grill.

[7] Yard has served as a judge on several cooking shows, including the Food Network series Halloween Baking Championship, Cake Wars Christmas, Christmas Cookie Challenge, Cooking Channel television series Sugar Showdown and more recently on ABC's The Great American Baking Show.

[15] She has also competed in the Food Network show, Cutthroat Kitchen: Superstar Sabotage.

[16] On May 3, 2008, Yard married dentist Edward M. Ines in Malibu, California in a destination wedding hosted by Wolfgang Puck, whom Yard served under as the corporate executive pastry chef at the time.