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Charles Raymond Knight “CK” (born Feb 20, 1947) is the past President and CEO of Health Craft, Inc., a company he founded in 1983 in Tampa, Florida. He was one of the original TV cooking show hosts on the Food Network, and resident Chef on WFLA-TV, NBC affiliate in Tampa, Florida for 9 years. He is a cookbook author; “The Better Health Cookbook”, “Healthy Meat and Potatoes” and co-author of “Be My Guest” with Chef Tell.

Born in Rahway, New Jersey, Charles was the first of two children born to Lucille and Raymond Knight. After graduating high school in 1965, he joined the U.S. Navy. His tour of duty saw action serving on the U.S.S. America Aircraft Carrier during the 6 Day Arab-Israeli War. He earned the rank of Aviation Petty Officer 2nd Class while serving with Anti-Submarine Warfare Squadron VP-8, where his crew was the command aircraft in search of the submarine U.S.S. Scorpion off the coast of the Azores.

In 1970, he studied Political Science and Journalism at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. He then spent a semester studying advertising copywriting under Art Spikol of Philadelphia Writer’s School and Temple University. Later in life, he attended the International Culinary Institute in New York City and went on to receive credits in Nutritional Cuisine from the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York.