List of chefs explained
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
14th century
15th century
16th century
17th century
18th century
- 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
21st century
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Book: Louis Eustache Ude. The French Cook, Or, The Art of Cookery: Developed in All Its Branches. 1815. author.
