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Wilbert Jones is an American author, entrepreneur, and healthy food chef. He has appeared on 'TV Food Network , 'NBC, 'Fox News'' and several other major networks.Jones has published several articles and media apperences in Ebony Magazine, Prepared Foods Magazine, Essence Magazine, Chicago Sun Times, BET. He is the founder of The Wilbert Jones Company, and is the author of four cookbooks.

Career
Jones began his career in the food industry working for Kraft's Foods as a research and developer in food and beverage in 1985. He worked on several products: Kraft's Barbecue Sauce, Tombstone Pizza, Breyer’s Ice Cream Flavors.

In 1995 he worked as an instructor at William Rainey Harper College in Palatine, IL. Jones taught the following courses: From Kitchen Recipes to Retail Food Products, Niche Restaurant Marketing and Public Relations, How to Start or Expand a Restaurant or Catering Business ,and Creating Menus and New Recipe Concepts that Work.

In 1993, Jones became the president of Healthy Concepts, Inc. in Chicago, IL. It is a food and beverage product development company that also specializes in marketing services with expertise in recipe development, menu development, and concept development and marketing to the retail and food service industry. As of 2011, the name of the company is called The Wilbert Jones Company and has been in operation for 20 years.

In addition to his company, Jones has written cookbooks and giving his time to help people in needs. Malaria threats the lives of many and even result in death around the world especially in Africa. The Nand's Peri Peri Senegal malaria project which Jones is a part of, raises money for mosquito bed nets for the people of Senegal. On August 1999, Jones co-chaired a fundraising dinner gala called, "Dinner with Julia Child at Chicago Ritz-Cartton for the American Institude of Wine & Food" which raised over $50,000.