Famous chefs in the US include Ina Garten, Julia Child, and Emeril Lagasse, while British and French chefs like Heston Blumenthal are known for their scientific approach to cooking. Gordon Ramsay is famous for his abrasive style and restaurant chain, and there are also TV chefs like Rachael Ray and Sandra Lee.
Popular chefs in the United States are many, each with their own style of cooking and each boasting a wide range of cookbooks and television show tie-ins. These include self-taught Ina Garten, who came to culinary prominence when she hosted the Food Network program Barefoot Contessa; Julia Child, famous for publishing her bestseller Mastering the Art of French Cookery and its subsequent television tie-in, The French Chef; and Emeril Lagasse, celebrity chef, author and host of Food Network favorites, Emeril Live and Essence of Emeril.
Across the Atlantic, British and French chefs are very much in vogue. Like Heston Blumenthal, owner of the famous Fat Duck restaurant, an establishment boasting three Michelin stars and located in the English village of Bray, Berkshire, they have moved food into uncharted territory. He is renowned for his uniquely scientific approach to the preparation of his dishes, insisting on the importance of research and development in the culinary process. The fruits of his labors include a vacuum-sealed jar that increases the size of bubbles in dishes like his aerated chocolate soufflé dessert. He’s also known to be an advocate of cooking at extreme temperatures, a technique he touted in his series Search of Perfection, where he sautéed a Bresse chicken at 165 degrees Fahrenheit (73.8 degrees Celsius).
Television chef Gordon Ramsay is best known on both sides of the Atlantic for his television series Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares. His abrasive style and liberal use of Anglo-Saxons have meant that his fame rests more on his ill-tempered authoritarian style than his three Michelin stars and string of cooking shows. He is also the owner of an American restaurant chain. These include Gordon Ramsay at the London Hotel in Manhattan in New York; Gordon Ramsay at Cielo in Boca Raton, Florida; and Gordon Ramsay at the London Hotel in West Hollywood, California.
There is also a chef species who is known solely for his work in television and media and who has never owned a restaurant or worked as a restaurateur. These include the following American television chefs: Rachael Ray, Sandra Lee and Jeffrey Smith, whose show The Frugal Gourmet ran on the PBS network for 261 episodes.
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