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Only those subjects who are notable enough for their own articles should be included here. That may include chefs who have articles in other languages on Wikipedia which have not as yet been translated into English.

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

Antiquity

12th century

  • Liu Niangzi, Chinese Imperial chef

14th century

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

15th century

  • Maestro Martino
  • Bartolomeo Platina

16th century

Scappi
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

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Procopio Cutò

18th century

Appert Nicolas
Nicolas Appert
  • Nicolas Appert, pioneer of canning
  • Antoine Beauvilliers, pioneering restaurateur
  • 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
  • James Hemings, personal, enslaved, chef to Thomas Jefferson. First American chef to be fully trained in France, commonly attributed as the origin of Macaroni and cheese.

19th century

20th century

Fanny Cradock Allan Warren
Fanny Cradock
Julia Child at KUHT
Julia Child

21st century

See also

  • Le Club des Chefs des Chefs
  • List of female chefs with Michelin stars
  • List of Indian chefs
  • List of pastry chefs
  • List of food writers
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