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This article is a list of notable chefs and food experts throughout history.

Contents

Antiquity

  • Mithaecus
  • Apicius, chef to Emperor Trajan

    • 14th century

  • Sidoine Benoît
  • Guillaume Tirel, also known as Taillevent, first professional French master chef

    • 15th century

  • Maestro Martino
  • Bartolomeo Platina

    • 16th century

  • Lancelot de Casteau, author of L'Ouverture de cuisine (1604)
  • Guillaume Fouquet de la Varenne
  • Bartolomeo Scappi, author of Opera dell'Arte del Cucinare (1570)

    • 17th century

  • Procopio Cutò, Sicilian chef in Paris, founder of Cafe Procopio
  • Stanisław Czerniecki, author of 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

    • 18th century

  • Nicolas Appert, pioneer of canning
  • Antoine Beauvilliers, pioneering restaurauteur
  • Hercules, chef of George Washington, and first US Presidential chef
  • François Massialot, author of Le cuisinier royal et bourgeois (1712) and Le nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois (1717)
  • Vincent la Chapelle, author of Cuisinier moderne (1733)
  • Menon, author of Nouveau Traité de la Cuisine (1739) and La Cuisinière bourgeoise (1746)
  • Paul Tremo, court chef to King Stanislaus Augustus of Poland

    • 19th century

  • Marcel Boulestin
  • Marie-Antoine Carême
  • Alexandre Étienne Choron
  • George Crum
  • Marthe Distel, co-founder of Le Cordon Bleu
  • Urbain Dubois, author of numerous works on food and creator of Veal Orloff
  • Adolphe Dugléré, head chef of Café Anglais
  • Auguste Escoffier
  • Fannie Farmer, author of bestselling cookbook (1896)
  • Joseph Favre, author of Grand Dictionnaire universel de la cuisine and founder of the Académie culinaire de France
  • Jules Gouffé
  • Lucien Olivier, Belgian-born Russian chef
  • Henri-Paul Pellaprat, co-founder of Le Cordon Bleu
  • Alfred Prunier
  • Charles Ranhofer
  • Alexis Soyer
  • Louis Eustache Ude, author of The French Cook (1813)

    • References

    List of chefs Wikipedia
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