Danielle Bennett

Danielle Bennett aka Diva Q is a certified barbecue & grilling expert, chef, pitmaster, celebrated TV host, best-selling author and former world pork, bacon, sausage, wings, dessert & grilling champion. With over 400 BBQ awards to her name since starting in 2006 as well as having taught over 20,000 students worldwide over the last 18 years Diva Q is a respected industry leader and ambassador for all things Grilling & BBQ. As the first US Visa Resident designated as a BBQ and Grilling Expert, she has a proven track record of understanding American and Worldwide BBQ techniques and grilling applications. 

As a motivational speaker, Danielle is passionate about inspiring others to overcome adversity, believing in your goals and working for what you want. She has travelled the world visiting, eating, learning and trading ideas at over 600 BBQ restaurants. Her best-selling cookbook Diva Q’s BBQ was nominated as a World Gourmand Best Cookbook in the World. 

As one of the most influential people in BBQ, Diva Q has been an expert BBQ judge on the Food Network, Destination America’s BBQ Pitmasters, The Travel Channel, & many more. For 3 years her own show BBQ Crawl on the Travel channel was featured in over 158 countries. She celebrates BBQ Everywhere she goes. Her recipes & expertise have been featured on the Today Show, Maxim, Southern Living, Forbes, as well as in countless additional articles online and in print. 

As the Worldwide ambassador & culinary instructor for Traeger Grills, she continues to travel the world making appearances to teach classes about BBQ & Grilling techniques and to explore and write about bringing people together through woodfired BBQ & grilling. She lives by her trademark: Life is too short for bad BBQ! ®️