Anthony Bourdain
Anthony Bourdain, executive chef of Brasserie Les Halles in New York City, is the anti-celebrity chef. He’s crass and doesn’t wear starched, white jackets or fancy hats. He is, however, ...
Jamie Oliver
Jamie Oliver is a phenomenon in the world of food. He is one of the world’s best-loved television personalities and one of Britain’s most famous exports. Jamie has had huge ...
Bobby Flay
The Food Network’s female fans swoon for Flay’s Southwestern cooking. He hosts Throwdown!, Boy Meets Grill and The Next Food Network Star, and he owns restaurants from the Bahamas to Las Vegas.
Rachael Ray
The jaunty chef-next-door began winning audiences with catchphrases like “Yum-o” on 30 Minute Meals, in 2001. Today she has four Food Network programs. Rachael Ray, is averaging 2.6 million viewers this season, ...
Gordon Ramsay
This British chef owns restaurants in London, New York and Dubai. He’s better known for berating reality show contestants on Hell’s Kitchen in the U.S. and Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares in the U.K.
Mario Batali
The culinary school dropout is now a master of Italian cuisine who owns 13 restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Reservations at his New York spots Babbo ...
Paula Deen
The queen of Southern cuisine serves up butter-drenched casseroles and motherly charm on two Food Network shows. Her loyal audience laps it up, and her cookbooks, memoir and magazine are ...
Wolfgang Puck
The Austrian-born patriarch of celebrity chefdom got his start with the ritzy Los Angeles restaurant Spago in 1982. That hot spot, once frequented by Orson Welles and Sidney Poitier, now ...
Tom Callichio
He taught himself how to cook by reading books. Today he owns three high-end Craft restaurants in New York, Los Angeles and Dallas, plus three steak houses. He’s also a ...
Nobuyuki Matsuhisa
The sushi chef to the stars began his career slicing fish in Tokyo, Peru, Argentina and Alaska. Now he co-owns 17 Nobu sushi restaurants around the globe. The ones in ...
Alain Ducasse
This French chef’s empire includes 22 restaurants from Tokyo to Paris. His first New York spot shuttered in 2006 after critics said the food was too fussy; he opened two ...