Rachael Domenica Ray (born August 25, 1968 in Glens Falls, New York) is an Emmy-award winning television personality and author, who currently hosts the syndicated talk/lifestyle program "Rachael Ray" and two Food Network series, "30 Minute Meals" and "Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels". Ray has also written a series of cookbooks based on the "30 Minute Meals" concept, and launched a magazine, "Every Day with Rachael Ray", in 2005.

Paula Ann Groover, better known as Paula Deen (born Paula Ann Hiers on January 19, 1947), is an American cook, restaurateur, writer, and TV personality. Deen owns The Lady & Sons restaurant in Savannah, Georgia, where she resides, and runs it with her sons, Jamie and Bobby. She has also published four cookbooks. She is known for her bubbly, "down-home" personality, which makes her a favorite among TV viewers.

Alton Brown is an American food personality, cinematographer, author, and actor. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show "Good Eats", the miniseries "Feasting on Asphalt" and the main commentator on "Iron Chef America". Brown is also the author of several cooking how-to books and a regular contributor to "Bon Appétit" and "Men’s Journal" magazines.

Robert William Flay is a fourth generation Irish-American celebrity chef and restaurateur. He is the owner and executive chef of six restaurants: "Mesa Grill", "Bolo Bar & Restaurant", and "Bar Americain" in New York City, "Mesa Grill" Las Vegas (Caesars Palace), "Mesa Grill" Bahamas (Atlantis Paradise Island, Nassau), and Bobby Flay Steak (Atlantic City, New Jersey). Flay has hosted four Food Network television programs, …

Tyler Florence (born Kevin Tyler Florence on March 3, 1971) is a chef and television star of several Food Network shows. He graduated from the College of Culinary Arts at the Charleston, South Carolina, campus of Johnson & Wales University in 1991. He was later given an honorary doctorate from the University for his culinary success. He studied under Charlie Palmer, Marta Pulini, and Rick Laakonen. He hosted "Food 911" and "How to Boil Water", …

Sandra Lee (born July 3, 1966 in Los Angeles, California) is an American author and television presenter. Lee is most well-known for her "semi-homemade cooking" concept.

Giada Pamela De Laurentiis (born August 22, 1970) is an Italian-American chef, writer and the current host of the Food Network programs "Everyday Italian", "Behind the Bash", "Giada's Weekend Getaways", and "Giada in Paradise". In addition to her regular shows, De Laurentiis has appeared on several Food Network specials and is the founder of a catering business called GDL Foods. She also appears regularly as a contributor on NBC's "Today".

Mario Batali Mario, whose original career path had him studying the golden age of Spanish theater at Rutgers University, took his first bite of culinary training at Le Cordon Bleu in London, from which he withdrew almost immediately due to a "lack of interest."

Emeril John Lagasse is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, and writer. He is of Québécois (paternal) and Portuguese (maternal) ancestry. He is a 1978 graduate of Johnson & Wales University's College of Culinary Arts, where he later received an honorary doctorate in 1990. He is married and has four children. Emeril is most well-known for his TV show "Emeril Live" on the Food Network, one of its highest-rated programs.

Cat Cora 's culinary aspirations began at an early age, and by 15, she had developed a business plan for her own restaurant. In 2005, she made television history on Food Network's Iron Chef America as the first and only female Iron Chef, and in November 2006 Bon Appetit Magazine bestowed her with their Teacher of the Year Award, an award she calls, "the greatest recognition she could achieve as a chef".

Ina Rosenberg Garten (born February 2 1948) is an American author, columnist, and host of the Food Network program "Barefoot Contessa". Known for demystifying fine cuisine with an emphasis on quality ingredients and timesaving tips, she has been championed by Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey, and Patricia Wells as an authority on cooking and home entertaining.

Mr. Fieri has been a director since 2004 and is an entrepreneur and restaurateur, having founded and operated three restaurants in the North Bay Area of San Francisco over the past seven years. In 2006, Mr. Fieri reached national TV stardom with his own cooking show called called Guy's Big Bite on The Food Network Channel. The program was part of a national competition in which Mr. Fieri was selected as The Next Food Network Star from more than 10,000 entrants.

Michael Chiarello (born January 26, 1962 in Red Bluff, California, USA) is an American celebrity chef specializing in Italian-influenced California cuisine. He hosts the cooking show, "Easy Entertaining with Michael Chiarello", on the Food Network and hosts "NapaStyle" on the Fine Living Network. Chiraello owns a winery, Chiarello Family Vineyards, and NapaStyle, a purveyor of food, cookware, and furniture.

James Trevor Oliver MBE (May 27, 1975), better known as Jamie Oliver and nicknamed The Naked Chef, is an English celebrity chef. He is well known for his role in campaigning against unhealthy, processed foods in British schools. Since his early years, his Essex accent has become infamous - particularly the use of the hindi word "pukka" (colloquially meaning "brilliant" or "solid", originally "cooked" or "ripe").

Dave Lieberman is the host of "Good Deal with Dave Lieberman" on the Food Network; he also works as a personal chef in and around New York City. (His hometown is Philadelphia.) "Campus Cuisine", Lieberman's first cooking show at Yale University, was a public-access show that combined "sophisticated and accessible cooking with crazy college adventures." In many recent news articles, he is described as the Food Network's new, …

Robert Irvine C.E.C. MCFA (C.G.) (born 1965) is a celebrity chef who stars in a show on Food Network called "Dinner: Impossible," which premiered January 24th, 2007. With no prior warning and no preparation, the show pits Irvine against seemingly impossible culinary challenges, including preparing a wedding for 200, including 1,000 hors doeuvres in only 10 hours, cooking in an authentic 18th century kitchen, on a cattle drive, in an Ice Hotel, …

Jamie Deen (born June 29, 1967 in Albany, Georgia, USA) is a chef and businessman. He is best known as one of the sons of Paula Deen, and together with his brother, Bobby, runs her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia. He also frequently appears on her show, "Paula's Home Cooking", and has been hosting his own show with Bobby, "Road Tasted", since July 11, 2006. Jamie married his wife, Brooke, on March 5, 2005.

Sara Moulton is the executive chef of "Gourmet magazine" and was host of the Food Network show "Sara's Secrets" and "Cooking Live". After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1974 with no plans for a career, Moulton attended the Culinary Institute of America. She then worked in restaurants in Boston and New York City and as an apprentice in Chartres, France.

Bobby Deen (born April 28, 1970 in Albany, Georgia, USA) is a chef and businessman. He is best known as one of the sons of Paula Deen, and together with his brother, Jamie, runs her restaurant, The Lady & Sons, in Savannah, Georgia. He also frequently appears on her shows, "Paula's Home Cooking" and "Paula's Party", and with brother Jamie Deen, has been hosting his own show, Road Tasted, since July 11, 2006.

Masaharu Morimoto is a well-known Japanese chef, best-known as the third (and last) Iron Chef Japanese on the TV cooking show "Iron Chef", and an Iron Chef on its spinoff, "Iron Chef America". Morimoto's costume on "Iron Chef" is silver with red trim and a picture on the back of Japanese and American flags tied together in a sheaf, while on "Iron Chef America" he dons the standard blue Iron Chef outfit with white trim.

Ming Tsai (born March 29, 1964) is an American fusion cuisine chef and restaurateur who currently hosts two cooking shows - "Ming's Quest" on the Fine Living television channel and "Simply Ming" on American Public Television - and formerly hosted "East Meets West" on the Food Network, for which he won an Emmy Award.

Lidia Maticchio Bastianich is a Croatian-American chef and host of television cooking shows.

George Duran (born January 13 1975) is an American chef and entertainer who currently presents the cooking show "Ham on the Street" on the Food Network. He took over hosting duties from Jim O'Connor for the Food Network show "The Secret Life Of..." on April 2, 2007. It is unclear if "Ham of the Street" is still in production because of this.

Warren Brown is the host of the Food Network show, Sugar Rush. He was a lawyer until he decided to become a pastry chef, and is the founder and owner of bakery CakeLove and Love Café in Washington, DC and attended Brown University and The George Washington University Law School.

Chris Cognac is a detective and former Tactical Flight Officer with the Hawthorne Police Department in Southern California. He is the host of the Food Network show "The Hungry Detective". Prior to this, he was seen on the fourth episode of Alton Brown's "Feasting on Asphalt", and as a judge on Iron Chef America. Cognac is also a food writer for The Daily Breeze in Los Angeles, California. Chris bears a striking reseblance to French film director Jean Renoir.

Wolfgang Puck was one of the first celebrity chefs , rising to fame as a young man with his inspired "California cuisine" which he has served at famed Los Angeles restaurant Spago since its debut in 1982 . ... Before moving to America, Puck apprenticed at restaurants in Provence, Monaco , and Paris . The first restaurant he part owned was Ma Maison in Los Angeles, California . He pioneered California cuisine in the 1980s, with the opening of his restaurant Spago in 1982.

Kevin Jeffery Brauch (born 1969 in Toronto), "celebrity bartender," is host of the show "The Thirsty Traveler" on the Fine Living Network (originally on the Food Network) and currently is the floor reporter for "Iron Chef America" on the Food Network. Born and raised in Toronto, Canada, Brauch worked as a bartender for seven years early in his career while working his way through the radio and television program at Ryerson University.

Jeffrey Adam "Duff" Goldman (born December 17 1974) is the star of the Food Network reality television show "Ace of Cakes". He is a baker and food artist who has been described as both audacious and creative. He owns a cake shop in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, known as Charm City Cakes. His work and talent has also been featured on the network television special "Food Network Challenge" competitions and "The Tonight Show" with Jay Leno.

Jacqui Malouf (born December 12, 1968, in Etobicoke Ontario, Canada) is a television host, cook, and author. Raised in Canada, she attended the University of Western Ontario, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta, before beginning her career as a stand-up comic. Her first hosting job was on SportsFigures. She became well known when as Bobby Flay's co-host on Food Network's Hot Off the Grill with Bobby Flay.

Juan-Carlos Cruz (born ?) is a celebrity chef on Food Network. He hosts Calorie Commando and Take it Off (now titled "Weighing In") on the network. Juan-Carlos lost 43 pounds on a Discovery Health show called Discovery Health Body Challenge, which made him change directions from being a pastry chef to do low-calorie cooking. Cruz graduated in 1993 from the California Culinary Academy. In 1994 he started working at the Stanford Park Hotel, as a pastry chef.

Jennifer Paterson (3 April, 1928 - 10 August, 1999) was a chef and TV personality who appeared on the television programme "Two Fat Ladies" with Clarissa Dickson-Wright. The pair were famous for their sometimes unhealthy, but presumably very delicious, meals made from scratch. Their preferred means of transportation was a motorbike with sidecar, which Paterson drove. Paterson, a devout Roman Catholic who died in 1999 of lung cancer at the age of 71 in England, …

Bobby Rivers was the host of the now-defunct "Top 5" show on the Food Network. Rivers' television career began in 1985 as an entertainment reporter for New York television station WPIX. In 1987, Rivers was hired as a veejay by the American cable television channel VH1, which led to his own show on the network ("Watch Bobby Rivers") the following year. On this program, he interviewed the likes of Paul McCartney, Kirk Douglas, Meryl Streep, Mel Gibson, …

Clarissa Dickson-Wright (born Clarissa Theresa Philomena Aileen Mary Josephine Agnes Elsie Trilby Louise Esmerelda Dickson-Wright on June 28 1947) is an English celebrity chef best known from her appearances with Jennifer Paterson in the BBC series "Two Fat Ladies". She was born in St John's Wood, London, the only child of a Protestant father Sir Arthur Dickson-Wright KCVO who was surgeon to the British Royal Family after World War II, …