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The Most Famous American Chefs

American cuisine is a hotchpotch of different cultural influences, many of which are informed by chefs, food writers and home cooks from all over the country.

Below are the most famous American chefs, all of whom have made the James Beard Foundation鈥檚 prestigious Who鈥檚 Who of Food & Beverage in America list;

1. Lidia Bastianich

Lidia Bastianich – Wikipedia

Lidia Bastianich is an Emmy award-winning public television host, a bestselling cookbook author, a successful restaurateur, and owner of a flourishing food and entertainment business. She specializes in Italian and Italian-American cuisine.

Born Lidia Giuliana Matticchio Bastianich on February 21, 1947, in Pola, Italy. She migrated to the United States in 1958. In 1972, she began training as the assistant chef at Buonavia. Buonavia was a restaurant that her family opened in 1971 in the Forest Hills section of Queens.

Bastianich is a partner in Eataly NYC, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles, Dallas, Las Vegas, Toronto, and S茫o Paulo, Brazil. She also has a line of artisanal pastas and all-natural sauces, called LIDIA鈥橲.

2. Thomas Keller

Thomas Keller at The French Laundry – Flickr

Thomas Aloysius Keller is an American chef, restaurateur, and cookbook writer. He is the only American chef to have been awarded simultaneous three-star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants, and the first American male chef to be designated a Chevalier of The French Legion of Honor.

Keller was born on October 14, 1955, in Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California, United States. He began cooking in his mother鈥檚 restaurant and later on trained under French-born Master Chef Roland Henin.

The chef is the proprietor of The French Laundry in Yountville, CA, Bouchon Bistro, with locations in Yountville and Las Vegas; Per Se in New York City; Ad Hoc + addendum in Yountville; The Surf Club Restaurant in Surfside, FL; Bouchon Bakery in Yountville, Las Vegas and in the Middle East; and the Mexican eatery La Calenda in Yountville.

3. Dominique Creen

Dominique Crenn – Wikipedia

Dominique is an award-winning Chef known for creating food that鈥檚 visually, textually, and conceptually exciting with a deep, emotional center. She is currently the only woman chef in the United States to attain three Michelin stars, for her restaurant Atelier Crenn, in San Francisco, California.

Crenn was born in Locronan and adopted at 18 months by a French couple from Versailles. She moved to the United States to pursue her culinary aspirations in the late 1980s.

In March 2018, Bar Crenn, a wine bar featuring small plates next door to Atelier Crenn, opened, earning one Michelin star in its first year, which means Crenn currently holds four Michelin stars.

4. Ken Hom

Ken Hom – Flickr

Ken Hom OBE is a Chinese-American chef, author and television-show presenter for the BBC, specialising in Chinese Cuisine.

Hom was born in Tucson, Arizona on May 3, 1949. He first learned cooking at the age of eleven when he worked in his uncle’s Chinese restaurant.

In 2009, he was appointed honorary Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) for “services to culinary arts”.

Hom has appeared in a number of prime-time BBC TV series. His series for KBS, a five-hour documentary on the history of the noodle, sold in 23 countries and won the Peabody award in 2010.

5. Alice Waters

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Alice Louise Waters is an American chef, restaurateur, and food activist who was a leading proponent of the 鈥渟low food鈥� movement, which billed itself as the healthy antithesis to fast food.

Waters was born in Chatham Borough, New Jersey, on April 28, 1944. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, receiving a degree in French cultural studies in 1967.

In 1971, she opened Chez Panisse, a Berkeley, California restaurant where she popularized the concept of market-fresh cooking, using the local products available in Northern California.

Waters鈥� influence in the fields of organic foods and nutrition inspired Michelle Obama’s White House organic vegetable garden program.

6. Daniel Boulud

Daniel Boulud – Flickr

Daniel Boulud is a French chef and restaurateur best known for the eponymously named restaurant Daniel, in New York City, which has two Michelin stars.

Boulud was trained by a variety of French chefs and worked in France with Roger Verg茅, Georges Blanc and Michel Gu茅rard and later in Copenhagen before becoming the private chef to the European Commission in Washington, D.C.

The Dinex Group, currently includes fifteen restaurants, three locations of a gourmet grocery (Epicerie Boulud) and Feast & F锚tes Catering. His restaurants include Daniel, Le Pavillon, Caf茅 Boulud, db bistro moderne, Bar Boulud, DBGB Kitchen & Bar, and Boulud Sud.

7. Carla Hall

Carla Hall – Flickr

Carla Hall is an African-American chef, television personality and former model who built her brand on comfort food, served with love. She believes that if one is happy and calm while cooking, then this will show in the food, making it much better, whereas if one feels otherwise, it will degrade their cuisine.

Hall was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee. She perfected her cooking skill at L’Academie de Cuisine in Bethesda, Maryland, graduating with a Culinary Career Training certificate.

In 2001, Hall started her own catering company, Alchemy Caterers which she renamed Alchemy by Carla Hall, based in Wheaton, Maryland.

8. Grant Achatz

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Grant Achatz is an American chef and restaurateur, often recognized for his contributions to molecular gastronomy or progressive cuisine.

Achatz enrollment in The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Following graduation in 1994, Achatz landed a position at Charlie Trotter’s.

His Chicago restaurant Alinea has won numerous accolades and Achatz himself has won numerous awards from prominent culinary institutions and publications, including the Food and Wine’s “best new chefs” award in 1998, “Rising Star Chef of the Year Award” for 1999, “Best Chef in the United States” for 1998 and a 2003 “Who’s Who Inductee” from the James Beard Foundation.

9. Nancy Silverton

Nancy Silverton – Flickr

Nancy Silverton is an American chef, baker, and author recognized for her role in popularizing sourdough and artisan breads in the United States.

Silverton grew up in Sherman Oaks and Encino, in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley. She dropped out of Sonoma State in her senior year, and decided to train formally as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu in London.

To further her studies, she enrolled in Ecole Lenotre Culinary Institute in Plasir, France. After Silverton returned to Los Angeles in 1982, she was hired by Wolfgang Puck as Spago’s opening pastry chef.

Nancy is the co-owner of Pizzeria Mozza in Los Angeles and Newport Beach as well as Osteria Mozza, Mozza2Go and chi SPACCA in Los Angeles. She also founded the world-renowned La Brea Bakery as well as Campanile Restaurant.

10. Wolfgang Puck

Wolfgang Puck – Wikipedia

Wolfgang Puck is an Austrian-American chef and restaurateur, known to provide both casual and sophisticated dining.

Puck was born in Sankt Veit an der Glan, Carinthia, Austria. He learned cooking from his mother, who was a pastry chef. Wolfgang later trained as an apprentice under Raymond Thuilier at L’Oustau de Baumani猫re in Les Baux-de-Provence, at H么tel de Paris in Monaco, and at Maxim’s Paris.

His success enabled him to launch the Wolfgang Puck Companies which includes the Wolfgang Puck Fine Dining Group, Wolfgang Puck Worldwide, Inc. and Wolfgang Puck Catering.