List of chefs

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

Antiquity[]

12th century[]

14th century[]

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

15th century[]

  • Maestro Martino
  • Bartolomeo Platina

16th century[]

Bartolomeo Scappi
  • 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

18th century[]

Nicolas Appert
  • 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[]

Marie-Antoine Carême
Charles Ranhofer
Auguste Escoffier

20th century[]

Fanny Cradock
Julia Child
Joyce Chen

21st century[]


See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Louis Eustache Ude (1815). The French Cook, Or, The Art of Cookery: Developed in All Its Branches. author.

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