Famous Chefs

Rachel Ray

While not formally trained as a chef, she has gained popularity with her easy short preparation meals, created a line of kitchen wares, and now appears on a talk show.

Heston Blumenthal

a British celebrity chef, TV personality, and food writer. Blumenthal is regarded as a pioneer of multi-sensory cooking, food pairing, and flavor encapsulation. He came to public attention with unusual recipes, such as bacon-and-egg ice cream and snail porridge.

Matty Matheson

a Canadian chef, restaurateur, actor, and internet personality. He was the executive chef of Parts& Labour, a restaurant located in Toronto, Ontario, which permanently closed on January 1, 2019.

Claus Meyer

a Danish entrepreneur, cook, and television host. He is often accredited as the founder of the New Nordic Cuisine philosophy.

Sunny Anderson

a Food Network personality. She began hosting How'd That Get On My Plate? in July 2008. She also hosts the Food Network program Cooking for Real and served as co-host with Marc Istook of the Food Network program Gotta Get It.

Raymond Oliver

a French chef and owner of Le Grand Véfour restaurant in Paris, one of France's great historical restaurants. Oliver detested nouvelle cuisine, preferring the rich ingredients favored by the chefs in his native Gascony.

Jacques Pepin

a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist.

Michel Bras

a French chef. His restaurant located in Laguiole in the Aveyron was rated three stars in the Guide Michelin since 1999.

Monica Galetti

a Samoan-born New Zealand Chef. She is a judge on the BBC competitive cooking program MasterChef: The Professionals and chef proprietor of Mere in London.

Philippe Rochat

a Swiss chef and the owner of the Restaurant de L'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, Switzerland. The restaurant, formerly owned by Frédy Girardet, won three Michelin Guide stars and was voted 16th best in the world in Restaurant magazine's 50 Best Restaurants list in 2009.

Edna Lewis

a renowned American chef, teacher, and author who helped refine the American view of Southern cooking. She championed the use of fresh, in-season ingredients and characterized Southern food as fried chicken, pork, and fresh vegetables - most especially greens.

Jamie Oliver

British celebrity chef and restaurateur. His typically English cuisine has garnered him numerous television shows and restaurants. In 2005, he initiated a campaign originally called Feed Me Better to move British schoolchildren towards eating healthy foods and cutting out junk food; this campaign was eventually backed by the British government.

Auguste Escoffier

Emperor of the World's Kitchens Escoffier's most noted career achievements are revolutionizing and modernizing the menu, the art of cooking and the organization of the professional kitchen. Escoffier simplified the menu as it had been, writing the dishes down in the order in which they would be served (Service à la Russe). He also developed the first à la Carte menu. He refined Careme's work on French cuisine.

Nigella Lawson

English journalist, broadcaster, television personality, gourmet, and food writer. In 1999 she hosted her cooking show series, Nigella Bites, on Channel 4, accompanied by another best-selling cookbook.

Marie-Antoine Careme

Famous nineteenth-century French chef, often considered the founder of grand cuisine

James Beard

First TV Chef

Paula Deen

Food Network star, famous for Southern cooking and her restaurant "Lady & Sons" in Savannah, GA; center of scandal racist scandal in 2013.

Anthony Bourdain

Kitchen Confidential photojournalist encouraged people to learn about other cultures and their food

Fernard Point

Known as the father of modern French cuisine

Julia Child

Notable OSS spy, American chef, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French

Elena Reygadas

She has become one of the main pillars of modern Mexican cuisine.

Antonia Lofaso

an American celebrity chef and restaurateur. She has appeared on the reality television show Top Chef, Chopped, Cutthroat Kitchen, and Restaurant Startup, among others.

Leah Chase

an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, an author and television personality, advocating African-American art and Creole cooking.

Art Smith

an American chef who has worked for former Florida governors Bob Graham and Jeb Bush and until 2007 was personal chef to Oprah Winfrey. His expertise is Southern cuisine.

Alex Guarnaschelli

an American chef, cookbook author, and television personality. She currently serves as an executive chef at New York City's Butter restaurant and was executive chef at The Darby restaurant before its closing.

Vivian Howard

an American chef, restaurateur, author, and television host. From 2013 to 2018, Howard hosted the PBS television series A Chef's Life focusing on the ingredients and cooking traditions of eastern North Carolina

Anne Burrell

an American chef, television personality, and former instructor at the Institute of Culinary Education. She is the host of the Food Network show Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and co-host of Worst Cooks in America.

Duff Goldman

an American pastry chef, television personality, and cookbook author.

Guy Fieri

an American restaurateur, author, and an Emmy Award-winning television presenter.

David Chang

an American restaurateur, author, podcaster, and television personality. He is the founder of the Momofuku restaurant group.

John Torode

an Australian-British celebrity chef and TV presenter. He moved to the UK in the 1990s and began working at Conran Group's restaurants.

Robert Irvine

an English celebrity chef and talk show host who has appeared on and hosted a variety of Food Network programs including Dinner: Impossible, Worst Cooks in America, Restaurant: Impossible, A Hero's Welcome, Operation Restaurant, All-Star Academy, Guy's Grocery Games, Chopped: Impossible, and Restaurant Express.

Rick Stein

an English celebrity chef, restaurateur, writer, and television presenter. Along with business partner Jill Stein, he runs the UK's Stein hotel and restaurant business.

Michael Caines

an English chef born in Exeter, Devon. He was head chef of Gidleigh Park in Devon until January 2016. He is currently the chef-owner of the Lympstone Manor Hotel between Exeter and Exmouth, which holds one Michelin star.

Alvin Lueng

an English-born Hong Kong-Canadian chef and television personality. He holds two Michelin stars at his restaurant Bo Innovation and one Michelin star at Bo London. Nicknamed The Demon Chef, he invented his cuisine X-Treme Chinese, which includes meals such as an edible condom on a mushroom beach.

Marcus Samuelsson

an Ethiopian-born Swedish-American celebrity chef, restaurateur, and television personality. He is the head chef of Red Rooster in Harlem, New York.

Vikas Khanna

an Indian chef, restaurateur, cookbook writer, filmmaker and humanitarian. He has been one of the judges of MasterChef India since its beginning. He is based in New York City.

Giada De Laurentiis

an Italian American chef, entrepreneur, writer, and television personality. She was the host of Food Network's program called Giada at Home.

Gualtiero Marchesi

an Italian chef unanimously considered the founder of the new Italian cuisine and, in the opinion of many, the most famous Italian chef in the world

Casear Cardini

an Italian restaurateur, chef, and hotel owner who, along with his brother Alex Cardini (November 23, 1899 - December 22, 1974), is credited with creating Caesar salad at his Tijuana restaurant, Caesar's.

Sean Sherman

an Oglala Lakota Sioux chef, cookbook author, forager, and promoter of indigenous cuisine. Sherman founded the indigenous food education business and caterer The Sioux Chef and cofounded with then-partner Dana Thompson the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems

Alice Waters

provide dishes that use only seasonal, local products at the height of freshness

Carme Ruscalleda

the renowned Spanish chef of the restaurant Sant Pau in Sant Pol de Mar, near Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. She also owns and manages the restaurant Sant Pau de Tòquio in Japan.

Emeril Lagasse

well-known chefs who have become famous through television shows helped the Food Network (now Food TV) become some of the most-watched shows. Italian

Ferran Adria

1962 -- ElBulli, the world's best restaurant. " creativity means not copying," modern gastronomy and technology.

Alexis Soyer

A London chef welcomed by Nightingale to improve patients' food

Bobby Flay

A high school dropout, he operates several restaurants, has written several cookbooks, and appears regularly on the Food Network

Wolfgang Puck

first chef-owner

Gordon Ramsay

is a British chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer.