The best American and International chefs
Read about the best chefs from all backgrounds and from all nationalities. A collection of some of the greatest and most celebrated chefs in the world.
Chefs
Alfred Portale
The relationship between form and content is one that artists working in every medium must come to terms with, and cooking is no exception. Alfred Portale, once a jewelry designer, now an American uber-chef, completely revolutionized modern food presentation when he built a lettuce salad that literally towered above the rest. With each verdant leaf […]
Marie-Antoine Carême
There’s Nothing New Under the Sun…. “…Whilst still in his teens, working as a pâtissier with Bailly, he (Carême, 1784-1833) came to associate confectionery with architecture, and spent much time studying and copying prints of classical architecture in order to reproduce them in the kitchen as elaborate set pieces or pièces montées. The architectural style […]