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Joël Robuchon (French pronunciation: [ʒɔɛl ʁɔbyʃɔ̃], 7 April 1945 – 6 August 2018) was a French chef and restaurateur.He was named "Chef of the Century" by the guide Gault Millau in 1989, [1] and awarded the Meilleur Ouvrier de France (France's best worker) in cuisine in 1976.
Referred to by the French press as roi des cuisiniers et cuisinier des rois ("king of chefs and chef of kings" [1] —also previously said of Carême), Escoffier was a preeminent figure in London and Paris during the 1890s and the early part of the 20th century. Alongside the recipes, Escoffier elevated the profession.
Procopio Cutò, Sicilian chef in Paris, founder of Cafe Procopio; Stanisław Czerniecki, author of Compendium ferculorum, albo Zebranie potraw, the first cookbook written originally in Polish; François Pierre de la Varenne, author of Le Cuisinier françois (1651) François Vatel, maître d'hôtel to Nicolas Fouquet and to Grand Condé
After her death, Jonathan Gold described the book in the Los Angeles Times as "possibly the greatest, most generous cookbook ever written by a working American chef". [ 15 ] Rodgers died of cancer of the appendix at age 57, in 2013 in Berkeley, California. [ 16 ]
2023 F&W Best New Chef Isabella Coss, who helms the pastry department at Lutèce (unrelated) in Washington, D.C., alongside her husband, chef-partner Matt Conroy, recalled Soltner warmly in an ...
Paul François Pierre Bocuse (French pronunciation: [pɔl bɔkyz]; 11 February 1926 – 20 January 2018) was a French chef based in Lyon known for the quality of his restaurants and his innovative approaches to cuisine.
Jacques Pépin (French pronunciation: [ʒak pepɛ̃]; born December 18, 1935) [1] is a French chef, author, culinary educator, television personality, and artist. [2] After having been the personal chef of French President Charles de Gaulle, he moved to the US in 1959 and after working in New York's top French restaurants, refused the same job with President John F. Kennedy in the White House ...
Thomas Aloysius Keller (born October 14, 1955) is an American chef, restaurateur and cookbook author. He and his landmark Napa Valley restaurant, the French Laundry in Yountville, California, have won multiple awards from the James Beard Foundation, including Best California Chef in 1996 and Best Chef in America in 1997.