Famous Chefs, Famous Restaurant Chefs, Women Chefs, TV Celebrity Chefs Official Home Pages

Giada De Laurentiis - Everyday Italian

Giada De Laurentiis is a private chef and caterer in Los Angeles and the founder of GDL Foods. Growing up in a large Italian family, Giada's passion for food was sparked as a child as she learned to prepare family recipes for their frequent gatherings. She became a professional chef after attending the famed Le Cordon Bleu Culinary School in Paris. After working in a variety of Los Angeles restaurants, including Wolfgang Puck's Spago, Giada started her own business. She's happy to share her family's secrets.

Gordon Ramsay - Hell's Kitchen

Scottish by birth, Gordon Ramsay was raised in England after his parents moved south to Stratford-Upon-Avon. His first career break came while playing football for Oxford United, where he was spotted by a Glasgow Rangers scout in an F.A. youth club match. After completing trials he was signed by the Scottish champions at the age of 15. Three years later he had given up professional football and gone back to college to complete a course in hotel management. Ramsay moved to London, where he joined Marco Pierre White in the early days of Harvey's in Wandsworth. After a couple of years Ramsay moved to Le Gavroche to work alongside chef Albert Roux. This was followed by three years of working in France in the kitchens of Guy Savoy and Joël Robuchon. Here he was able to enhance his expertise in classic French cooking.

Graham Kerr - The Galloping Gourmet!

Once known as The Galloping Gourmet, Graham Kerr now preaches low-fat eating. Graham Kerr is an internationally known culinary and television personality, award-winning author, and master of metaphorical speaking. His focus is on serving people who want to make healthy, creative, lifestyle changes and believes that the only lasting changes are the ones that we enjoy. His life goal is “to help to convert habits that harm into resources that heal.” See which stations carry his show, and consider a change in diet while your visiting!

Jack Hourigan - "How To Boil Water"

The lovely and multi-talented Jack is slowly but surely conquering the world. An original Block member since the station's launch in March 2002, Jack has been featured in Glamour Magazine as a co-host of The Food Network's cable hit "How to Boil Water" with chef Tyler Florence and has performed and written three shows ("Traffican'tabury Tales," "For those about to Iraq" and "Who's yer Baghdadi?") on stage with Second City Cleveland. She works with Second City Entertainment in Toronto and Chicago, and when she is not improvising, Jack works as an actor in films. She can be seen in the soon-to-be-released "Christmas at Maxwell's," has a cameo in the Academy Award-nominated film "American Splendor" and is featured in numerous short films.

The James Beard Foundation

The James Beard Foundation celebrates the country's culinary artists recognizing culinary excellence through awards, scholarships, guest chef events, educational programs, and gourmet dinners served in James Beard's house.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

Discover the many restaurants and fine cuisine of this gourmet chef who pleases many a palate. Read a newsletter and check recipes. As Mark Bittman so correctly states in his informative introduction, one of the many talents of Jean-Georges is his capacity to make what seem like simple preparations taste so incredibly complex. Regular customers to Jean-Georges Vongerichten's restaurants and food enthusiasts from coast to coast have anticipated Jean-Georges: Cooking at Home with a Four-Star Chef as eagerly as they would the debut of one of Vongerichten's celebrated restaurants. Jean-Georges Vongerichten's cooking is as remarkable for its simplicity as it is for its brilliance.

Joey Altman "Appetite For Adventure"

Joey Altman began his culinary training at the age of sixteen, and has since emerged as one of the foremost chefs specializing in multi-cultural cuisine. Utilizing his international background in restaurants and catering services, Altman has worked as a chef and consulted for many notable restaurants across the country. In 1989, at the age of 25 he opened Miss Pearl’s Jam House in San Francisco, where he garnered three and four star reviews for his tropical dishes inspired by Caribbean, Cajun, Creole, and Pacific Rim cuisine. Joey has created a dedicated Bay Area following with the viewers of his two-time James Beard Foundation award winning local cooking show Bay Café on KRON Channel 4. Joey is a guitarist in an all-chef band called the Back Burner Blues that plays charity events and monthly gigs at restaurant and clubs raising monies for local food charities.

Justin Gunn "Party Starters"

Party Starters is for all those at home entertainers who want to throw a memorable soiree but lack the time, the know-how, and, most of all, the cold cash to do it. Each episode of Party Starters features our team of party experts at the home of one fearful host or hostess. Our experts help plan, set a theme, and employ a variety of budget-conscious tricks of the trade to pull the party together. Fun and relatable, Party Starters give entertainers everywhere the tools and inspiration they need to impress without stress. Hosted by Justin Gunn.

La Jolla FRESH Seafood Restaurant

Fresh Seafood Restaurant in the heart of La Jolla, California. Executive Chef, Matthew Zappoli, formerly from Aureole in New York, presents an innovative menu, prepared with an eclectic flair, that reflects the freshest seafood available from around the globe.

Marcel Desaulniers - Totally Over-the-Top Chocolate Recipes!

Anyone who can write a book and title it "Death By Chocolate," then follow it with a sequel named "Desserts To Die For" has got to have a bit of whimsy in his soul. Indeed, Marcel Desaulniers is not only a talented creator of decadent desserts, he is also a most warm and fascinating person. Despite his very French name, this very American chef hangs his toque in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia, at his long-standing and acclaimed Trellis restaurant. Most readers know him as the author of Death by Chocolate, the luscious book named after the equally luscious dessert he's fashioned out of chocolate and mocha mousses, cocoa meringue, chocolate brownie, chocolate ganache and mocha rum sauce. Not just a little decadent, each heavenly slice contains 1,354 calories. But after all, you only live once! He has also received James Beard Awards for both the book and TV series entitled "Death By Chocolate" and for his TV series "The Burger Meisters."

Mario Batali - Famous Chef Molto Mario!

Famous Italian Chef/Cook, Mario Batali, shares recipes and details about his early beginnings in cooking. Peruse the menu of his New York restaurant, Po. From Babbo to Esca to Lupa the curtain draws open to reveal a magician, a kitchen, his stage, a man with skills rarely tasted in the New World or the old. He wields a whisk rather than a wand, prefers radicchio to rabbits, cuts of meat vesus cards of deceit - yet still sports a quirky chapeau! Who is this conjurer of culinary concoctions? Why Mario Batali - New York's own master chef, entrepreneur, author, and TV icon. Hooking audiences with opening productions like 'Babbo', 'Lupa', 'Esca', Super Mario has continued to awe and amaze with follow-up acts like tasty new venues, best selling books, and top-rated TV shows. What can't our culinary magician accomplish? Let him keep it coming!

Mary Ann Esposito

Professionally, I have studied and taught in numerous cooking schools throughout Italy. In addition to producing thirteen TV seasons of Ciao Italia, I have authored seven cookbooks on Italian food. My eighth book, Ciao Italia in Tuscany published by St. Martin's Press, contains over 60 recipes that feature the simple, hearty food of Tuscany plus essays about the warm and welcoming people.

Milliken and Feniger - Too Hot Tamales

Chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken's Biography Following their wildly successful series, Too Hot Tamales, Chefs and restaurant owners Mary Sue Milliken and Susan Feniger have gone global with an all-new series, Tamales' World Tour, which began airing nationally September 1st on TV Food Network. Each week, the Chefs focus on a different country or region, with recipes, tips, anecdotes of their personal travels, and all their usual playful bickering and banter. They have authored four cookbooks: Cooking With Too Hot Tamales, (William Morrow, 1997) offers all the recipe highlights, tricks, tips and photos from their TV show; Cantina, (Sunset, 1996) is part of a Sunset Books series entitled "Casual Cuisines of the World;" Mesa Mexicana (1994) is already in its second printing; and City Cuisine (1989) was nominated for best cookbook by Cooks Magazine.

Nigella Lawson

Successful, prolific journalist and broadcaster Nigella Lawson has been described as Britain's "It Girl." One of England's most recognized culinary personalities and the U.K.'s most beautiful woman, Lawson now takes on America with her extremely popular cooking and lifestyle series, Forever Summer with Nigella. From intricate meals to rich desserts, Nigella Lawson, the most recognized culinary personality and the U.K.'s most beautiful woman, is having fun in the kitchen. With her unique and refreshing approach to cookery, Lawson's motto is simple: "To achieve maximum pleasure through minimum effort." Her first book, How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Good Food (1998), was the basis for her popular TV series Forever Summer with Nigella. Her second book, How to Be a Domestic Goddess (2000), became an instant bestseller. Catch her each week as she teaches the best way to entertain.

Pascal Oudin's Contemporary French Cuisine - Pascal's on Ponce Grand Café & Restaurant, Coral GablesCoral Gables, Florida

Pots of herbs sit on each table, making PASCAL'S ON PONCE hard to resist. The food is every bit as appealing. Pascal Oudin likes to put his own contemporary twist on classic French food, but he never lets his ego get in the way. Everything here is good, from rich lobster bisque to a satisfying magret of duck, sharpened with vinegar and served over turnips. Pascal Oudin's cooking is the personality of his eponymous restaurant: subtle and engaging. The dining area is small but tables are well spaced; service is polished and the cooking is the best of what, 20 years after its creation, is still called "new" French because too many people still think a starched toque means thick sauces. Oudin's cooking is new in the sense it is unlike any other in town -- discrete spices, the freshest of ingredients, the most sublime of pairings. Go for the airy crab cake (he uses shrimp mousse as the flavorful binder), delectable lobster salad with salmon, the duck terrine and the lobster risotto among starters. For main courses, don't miss the excellent veal loin with mushroom ravioli, a meltingly tender rack of lamb with mustard and the sublime poached sole. The attractive wine list has a large number of reasonably priced bottles to attract both the novice and lifelong wine lover.

Sara Moulton - Sara's Secrets on Food TV

Sara Moulton, the executive chef of Gourmet magazine, is back in the kitchen with great recipes and terrific techniques specifically focused to fit your busy lifestyle. Top chefs, cookbook authors, and the best food specialists from around the world drop by frequently, and each weeknight Sara brings you the insider secrets that professionals use to save time and money while making every dish picture-perfect. Sara helps you make the best possible meals with a minimum of fuss and a maximum of flavor. Sara's mission as both author, famous chef and television host is to counter America's disastrous love affair with fast food by encouraging everyone to cook delicious and healthy food at home and to dine with family and friends. Sara lives in New York City with her husband Bill and their two children, Ruth and Sam. Sara Moulton Cooking Live! Watch Sara's Secrets, Weekdays at 3:30pm and at 9:30am on Saturday and Sunday, all on the Food Network ...

SeasonalChef.com - Seasonal Produce and Farmers Markets

News About Locally Grown Produce. Information on produce, farming and local farmers' markets. California wine and food, restaurant recipes, seasonal chef menus, wine reviews, culinary events, and food facts.

Star Chefs

The food industry's leading culinary resource and marketplace hosted online by the world's greatest chefs. Seasonal recipes, celebrity chef interviews, tips, news & gossip, wine and equipment auctions, culinary jobfinder, and business tools and services for restaurant and employee management. StarChefs: If you like food. A lot.

Steven Raichlen - Barbecue Bible

The Barbecue Bible. Barbecue cookbook for grilling and barbecuing enthusiasts by award winning cookbook author and chef Steven Raichlen. 500 international recipes for outdoor cooking. Steven Raichlen is a multi award-winning cookbook author, cooking teacher, and syndicated food columnist. In July 1998, the New York power publisher, Workman, published The Barbecue Bible, Raichlen's encyclopedic study of grilling and barbecuing around the world. Four years in the making, The Barbecue Bible features more than 500 recipes, plus a crash course on grilling, barbecuing, smoking, and other live fire cooking techniques. The research took Raichlen on a 150,000 mile journey to 25 countries on five continents. A winner of an IACP/Julia Child Award and main selection of the Book of the Month Club, the 600-page book is now in its seventh printing. Raichlen was born in Japan, raised in Baltimore, Maryland, and educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in French literature. He currently lives in Coconut Grove, Florida, with his wife, publicist Barbara Seldin. His hobbies include biking and sailing.

Warren Brown - “Cake Love”

Warren Brown, host of Sugar Rush, is an entrepreneur with a spirited passion for enjoying life. In 2000 Warren left his career as a lawyer to become a baker. Armed with a credit card and a sense that people wanted something better than what was currently on the market, he founded CakeLove, a bakery. With luck and fortunate timing, both the public and media recognized his passion and delicious scratch-made cakes.Warren opened CakeLove bakery in March 2002 and then opened Love Cafe in August 2003.

Ceci Carmichael - Good Food Fast!

Host Ceci Carmichael uncovers interesting culinary techniques used by the home cooks she visits on Calling All Cooks and offers quick cooking ideas on Good Food Fast with Family Circle. One of her own habits includes barbecuing in winter; preferably, in a foot of snow. Ceci was trained at the Institute of Culinary Education (formerly Peter's Kumps Cooking School) in New York City and cites Lucille Ball and Julia Child as her childhood heroes. Her words of advice?: "Lead with your heart" and "Wherever you go, there you are."

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