Danielle Bennett

Danielle Bennett aka Diva Q has a passion for BBQ that knows no boundaries. She lives, breaths and eats BBQ. She travels all over North America competing in a variety of sanctioned BBQ Competitions, writing about BBQ, and eating anywhere BBQ is served. Danielle has won numerous BBQ awards, multiples of Grand Championships and is a former World Champion of Pork and a former World Bacon Champion. It doesn't matter if it's a one man shack serving chicken over a hot charcoal filled barrel on the side of the road or a high end BBQ joint serving Q off of the latest in BBQ technology. She wants it all and she wants to know the stories behind these BBQ folks. Danielle has been featured on the TV programs Playing House on the W Network, TLC BBQ Pitmasters Season 2, Destination America BBQ Pitmasters Seasons 3 and 4, and has been a guest on the Today Show, CITY TV Breakfast Television, The Marilyn Denis Show, Rogers Daytime TV, CMT and CTV Canada AM numerous times. She is a Charbroil All Star Blogger and her recipes have been published multiples of times, in the KCBS 25th Anniversary Cookbook, Julie Reinhart's She-Smoke, Ted Reader's Beerlisious and numerous online resources. She also regularly contributes to BBQ pod-casts and radio. She teaches BBQ classes throughout Canada and the US. She writes about her BBQ life and adventures on her website, which receives more than a million hits annually. Danielle is currently the host of the hit TV show BBQ Crawl a lip-smacking mouth-watering adventure of all things BBQ. The show features BBQ joints from all over the US, the Pitmasters, their stories and of course fun competitions. She lives by the motto Life is too short for Bad BBQ! -