Celebrity chef

Learn from multi Michelin star chef, Gordon Ramsay.

Gordon Ramsey

We’ve all been there. After a long shift and what seems like endless hours of mixing cocktails and smiling across the bar you crash on the couch and catch another episode of your favorite chef-bartender-server-becomes-celebrity-host and yearn for your own lights-camera-action moment. The Food Reality Television Series category is huge and these days. So herein lies the question—how do you get from behind the bar to in front of the camera?

When chef Marco Pierre White, famously recognized as the original celebrity chef, released his cookbook and memoir White Heat twenty five years ago, he became a cultural icon. The photographs in the book, shot by the late Bob Carlos Clarke, helped to solidify the young man’s status as a the decade’s ultimate enfant terrible, featuring rowdy kitchen shenanigans and shirtless studio portraits in lieu of the chef’s most famous dishes.

Looking for a quick meal to make when you're sick? Try the go-to meal a private celebrity chef makes when her clients are under the weather.

The FX show "The Bear" is a favorite among servers and professional chefs because it nails a lot of realistic details about working in a restaurant. But people who have never worked in a restaurant are suddenly saying "Yes, chef!" and "Corner!" and it feels weird to some of us who have dedicated our lives to service.

Chef Ettore Boiardi was born in Italy and came to America in 1914, at age 16. . He oversaw catering of President Woodrow Wilson's 1915 wedding. He was an entrepreneur and started selling his recipes under the name Chef Boyardee.

Catherine Zeta-Jones in No Reservations (2007)

"I've been like this my whole life," says the Food Network star in this week's issue of PEOPLE

From Leonardo DiCaprio, Rihanna, and Jay-Z to Kim Kardashian, Barack Obama, and secretive millionaires, it’s as if the rich and powerful simply are not aware that other places exist to get dinner. And it’s all thanks to this man.