- Jamie Oliver
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"). - Julia Child
Julia Child (August 15, 1912-August 13, 2004) was a famous American cook, author, and television personality who introduced French cuisine and cooking techniques to the American mainstream through her many cookbooks and television programs. Her most famous works are the 1961 cookbook "Mastering the Art of French Cooking" and, showcasing her sui generis television persona, the series "The French Chef", which premiered in 1963. - Rachael Ray
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. - Delia Smith
Delia Smith OBE (born 18 June, 1941) is an English television chef, known for her interest in food and teaching basic cookery. - Emeril Lagasse
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. - Nigella Lawson
Nigella Lucy Lawson (born January 6 1960) is an English journalist, culinary writer, broadcaster and television presenter. - Alton Brown
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. - Gary Rhodes
Gary Rhodes OBE (born April 22, 1960) is a British restaurateur, cookery writer, and celebrity chef, known for his love of British cuisine, distinctive hair style (which has since been shaved off) and use of butter in many of his recipes. He has fronted BBC shows such as "Masterchef", "Hell's Kitchen", and his own series, "Rhodes Around Britain". In 2006 he tried to represent the South of England in the BBC's Great British Menu, … - Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Michael "Tony" Bourdain (born June 25, 1956) is an American author and the "Chef-at-Large" of "Brasserie Les Halles", based in New York City with locations in Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C.. Bourdain is also host of the Travel Channel's culinary and cultural adventure program, "Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations". - Antony Worrall Thompson
Henry Antony Cardew Worrall Thompson (born 1 May 1951) is a British celebrity chef and television presenter. Born in Stratford upon Avon, he went to school at The King's School, Canterbury. - Ainsley Harriott
Ainsley Harriott (born February 28 1957) is a British celebrity chef. His most well-known role is perhaps that of presenting the quick-fire cookery programme "Ready Steady Cook". Harriott was born in Balham in south London. Harriott is married to former costume designer, Clare Fellows. They have two children and a dog called Oscar. Clare is the sister of the creator of "John Shuttleworth" and "Jilted John", Graham Fellows. - Mario Batali
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." - Johann Lafer
Johann Lafer (born September 27, 1957 in Graz, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian chef living in Germany. Johann Lafer became well-known through his televised cooking show and his numerous cookbooks. His television show is self-produced. He is a regular guest of the television host Johannes B. Kerner on whose show he regularly prepares meals before an audience. He lives with his wife Silvia and two children in Stromberg, where he runs a restaurant and hotel. - Rick Stein
Christopher Richard (Rick) Stein OBE (born January 4 1947) is an English chef, restaurateur and television presenter. - Heston Blumenthal
Heston Blumenthal OBE (born May 27, 1966, in High Wycombe, near London) is the chef and owner of The Fat Duck, a three-Michelin-starred restaurant in the village of Bray in Berkshire. Blumenthal's fame is based upon his scientific approach to cooking which is often referred to as "molecular gastronomy" or "culinary alchemy". - Martin Yan
Martin Yan (甄文達; Pinyin: Zhēn Wéndá; later 殷文達; pinyin: Yīn Wéndá; note that 甄 and 殷 are both pronounced "Yan" in Cantonese) (born 1948) is a Chinese-born American chef and actor who hosts the award-winning national cooking show "Yan Can Cook". He currently resides in Hillsborough, California, south of San Francisco, and is married to Susan ("Sue") with twin sons, Colin and Devin. - James Martin
James Martin (born June 30 1972 in Yorkshire) is an English celebrity chef who first appeared on television in 1996. - Bob Blumer
Bob Blumer is the host of Food Network's "The Surreal Gourmet" and "Glutton for Punishment". He is also a cook book author and illustrator. Blumer was born and raised in Montreal, Quebec, but now calls Los Angeles, California his home. - Tyler Florence
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", … - Brian Turner
Brian Turner (born 7 May 1946 in Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire) is a British celebrity chef, based in London. He is a cook on BBC2's "Ready Steady Cook" since 1994 as well as presenting other cookery programmes - Nick Nairn
Nick Nairn, celebrity chef, born (January 12 1959) in Stirling, Scotland. Nairn has been a regular chef on BBC's popular Ready Steady Cook since the first series in 1994 and in 1990, he became the youngest chef to win a Michelin star in Scotland. A self-taught chef, his determination to master the culinary arts resulted in the creation of two successful restaurants - Braeval near Aberfoyle and the other in Glasgow, called Nairn's. - Lesley Waters
Lesley Waters is an English celebrity chef. She regularly appears on such cookery programmes as Ready Steady Cook, and is currently one of the featured chefs on This Morning. London born, she studied French Cuisine at Ealing College for three years, before cooking in top hotels, and winning awards including a scholarship to the Hotel Intercontinental in Dusseldorf. She then joined Prue Leith's restaurant, where she was promoted to senior chef. - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (born January 14 1965) is a British celebrity chef and TV presenter, noted for his mildly eccentric antics and back-to-nature philosophy. Born in London and raised in Gloucestershire, Fearnley-Whittingstall first became interested in cookery as a young child but he chose to study at St Peter's College, Oxford University, after attending Eton College, … - Tina Nordström
Tina Nordström is a Swedish television chef and presenter. She is currently starring in her second season on "New Scandinavian Cooking" on PBS stations statewide. She succeeds Andreas Viestad as host of the show. Besides the cookery show "Mat" ("Food"), which she made together with Tomas Tengby, she has written cookbooks - "Tinas mat" ("Tina's food"), "Tina" and "Jättegott Tina". - Phil Vickery
Philip Vickery (born 2 May 1961) is a British celebrity chef. He is the former Head Chef of the Castle Hotel, Taunton where he won, amongst other awards, a Michelin star, 4 AA rosettes and the AA Chef of the Year. He now owns a gastropub, in Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire. He currently appears on the television programmes "Ready Steady Cook" and "This Morning". He has written one book, Just Food, published by Headline in 1999. - Alfons Schuhbeck
Alfons Schuhbeck was born on 2. May 1949 in Traunstein,Upper Bavaria, Germany is one of Germany’s top chefs, as well as being a writer, restaurateur, TV cook and businessman. Born as as "Alfons Karg", he trained as a telecommunications technician, but soon became disenchanted with his profession. Stopping in the Bavarian holiday resort Waging, he ran into the restaurateur Sebastian Schuhbeck. He began working for Schuhbeck, who became his mentor. - Lidia Bastianich
Lidia Maticchio Bastianich is a Croatian-American chef and host of television cooking shows. - Bobby Flay
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, … - Ming Tsai
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. - Antonio Carluccio
Antonio Carluccio, OBE, (born 1937 in Vietri sul Mare, Salerno, Italy) is a London-based Italian chef, restaurateur and food expert. Carluccio was born in south Italy but his father was a stationmaster, and he moved with his father's job when he was young and grew up in Piedmont. He moved to Vienna aged 21 to study languages. He lived in Germany from 1962 to 1975, working as wine merchant in Hamburg. He came to the UK in 1975 to work as a wine merchant, … - Keith Floyd
Keith Floyd (born December 28 1943) is a cook who has produced many cooking shows for the BBC and Channel 5, and has published many books combining cookery and travel. - Sara Moulton
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. - Jacques Pépin
Jacques Pépin is a French chef working in the United States. Pépin was born in Bourg-en-Bresse near Lyon, and began cooking in his parents' restaurant, Le Pelican, at the age of 12. He went on to work in Paris, training under Lucien Diat at the Plaza Athénée. He eventually served as a personal chef for Charles De Gaulle and two other French premiers. Upon immigration to the United States in 1959, Pépin turned down a job offer at the White House, … - Mark Bittman
Mark Bittman is a well-known U.S. cookbook author and food writer. He lives in New York. He is not a trained chef, but came to cooking through journalism. Bittman writes the New York Times weekly column "The Minimalist" and is the author of numerous award-winning cookbooks including "How to Cook Everything", "Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking", and the "Minimalist Cookbook" series. - Mr. Food
Art Ginsburg, commonly known as Mr. Food, is a television and radio chef who emphasises simple to moderately complex recipes. With a notably enthusiastic style, Mr. Food specializes in practical food preparation techniques often using readily available ingredients such as canned goods or frozen foods. He extols a "its easy, you can do it" philosophy of cooking. Art Ginsburg was originally a butcher who, in 1975, … - Marcel Biro
- Graham Kerr
Graham Kerr (born January 22, 1934 in London) is a famous cooking personality who gained fame through his cooking show "The Galloping Gourmet". - Giada de Laurentiis
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". - Wylie Dufresne
Wylie Dufresne is the chef and owner of wd~50 restaurant in Manhattan. Dufresne is a disciple of Spanish chef Ferran Adria and a leading American proponent of molecular gastronomy, the movement to introduce new techniques and sciences in the preparation and delivery of food. Born in 1970 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Dufresne is a graduate of the French Culinary Institute in New York. In 1992, Wylie completed a B.A. in philosophy at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. - Ian Parmenter
Ian Parmenter is a London-born television chef and author who presented the cookery show "Consuming Passions" on the ABC television network. The programme was internationally broadcast in 15 countries. He has also written several recipe collections and two books, listed below.
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