WRoy Kenneth Ackerman CBE was an English restaurateur who owned the Gay Hussar and L'Etoile restaurants and published the Ackerman Guides and Egon Ronay restaurant guides.
WFredric John Baur was an American organic chemist and food storage scientist notable for designing and patenting the Pringles packaging. Baur filed for a patent for the tubular Pringles container and for the method of packaging the curved, stacked chips in the container in 1966, and it was granted in 1971. His other accomplishments included development of frying oils and freeze-dried ice cream. Baur was a graduate of the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio and received both his Masters and PhD degrees at The Ohio State University. He also served in the U.S. Navy as an aviation physiologist. He was a resident of Cincinnati, Ohio.
WSolomon Bloom, known as Sidney Bloom, was a British Jewish restaurateur, who founded the famous kosher restaurant of Bloom's in London.
WPascal Brodnicki is a Polish-French cook.
WWarren Brown is the host of the Food Network show, Sugar Rush. He had a career in health education and law until he decided that his true calling was to become a pastry chef, and is the founder and owner of bakery CakeLove and Love Café in Washington, DC. The original CakeLove location on U Street NW in Washington, DC was opened in 2002, with LoveCafe opening down the street in 2003. Five CakeLove locations were in the greater Washington area. The CakeLove retail bakeries closed, with the last location closing in 2015, and the CakeLove brand was redesigned to sell " CakeLove in a Jar."
WRichard Barrow Cadbury was an English entrepreneur, chocolate-maker and philanthropist. He was the second son of the Quaker John Cadbury, founder of Cadbury's cocoa and chocolate company.
WFrançois-Louis Cailler was a Swiss entrepreneur and early chocolatier who founded Cailler, the first modern brand of Swiss chocolate and the oldest still in existence, in 1819.
WJorge G. Castillo is a Cuban-American chef and television personality. Born in Cayo la Rosa near Bauta, Cuba, Castillo came to the United States in the Mariel Boatlift of 1980. Castillo is a member of the Three Guys From Miami, a group that promotes Cuban culture and cuisine throughout the United States and Canada. The Three Guys From Miami have appeared in "Keith Famie's Adventures", in "Tyler's Ultimate" with Tyler Florence, and in "Christmas in America" with Rachael Ray, all on the Food Network They have also been featured on "The Splendid Table" on National Public Radio, "Sara's Secrets" with Sara Moulton on the Food Network, "Taste of America" with Mark DeCarlo on the Travel Channel, and in a Public Television documentary, "La Cocina Cubana: Secretos de mi Abuela".
WMathias Dahlgren is a Swedish chef, who won the culinary championship Bocuse d'Or in 1997.
WFabrice Desvignes, born in 1973, is a French chef, and winner of the 2007 Bocuse d'Or. Desvignes is a second chef at the Présidence du Sénat in Paris.
WMartha Lou Gadsden was an American chef and restaurateur known for her soul food restaurant Martha Lou's Kitchen in Charleston, South Carolina.
WKeegan Gerhard is an American pastry chef and the former host of the Food Network series Food Network Challenge. As of the tenth season, he has been replaced by Claire Robinson. Instead of being the host, he serves as a judge alongside Kerry Vincent. Gerhard along with wife are the owners and executive chefs of D Bar Desserts in Denver, Colorado and San Diego (closed).
WJoseph Huntley (1775–1857) was a 19th-century biscuit maker and innovator, who lived in the English town of Reading. In 1822 he founded a small biscuit baker and confectioner shop at number 72 London Street.
WToshiro Kandagawa was a Japanese chef, known primarily for his strict following of classic Japanese cooking styles.
WZarif Khan was a Pashtun American restaurant owner and investor. He operated a restaurant, Louie's in Sheridan, Wyoming, which served tamales, hamburgers, and other dishes. Khan was apprentice to the original owner, a German immigrant named Louis Menge, and kept the restaurant's name after Menge became a farmer in Montana.
WJohann Lafer is an Austrian chef living in Germany.
WPaula Wynne Stephens Lambert is an American cheesemaker, cookbook author and entrepreneur. In 1982, she founded the Mozzarella Company in Dallas, Texas. She was listed in Who's Who in Food and Wine in Texas in 1988 and received the Roundtable for Women in Foodservice's Pacesetter Award in 1992. In 1998, she was listed in the James Beard Foundation's Who's Who in Food and Beverage in America.
WLéa Linster is a Luxembourg chef, and a gold medal winner of the 1989 Bocuse d'Or, the first and to date only woman to accomplish this.
WMichel Moran is a French restaurateur and master chef, has a Spanish origin. Juror of the Polish edition of MasterChef and MasterChef Junior broadcast on TVN. He lives in Poland permanently.
WWilliam Fellowes Morgan Jr. was the President of the Middle Atlantic Oyster Fisheries in 1925, and was the Commissioner of Public Markets for New York City around 1934 through 1942, for at least eight years. He oversaw the opening of The Bronx Terminal Market in 1935. His father was William Fellowes Morgan Sr. (1861–1943) a refrigerated storage business tycoon; his mother was tennis player Emma Leavitt-Morgan (1865–1956). His sisters were Pauline Morgan Dodge and Beatrice Morgan Pruyn Goodrich.
WDaniel Peter was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur. A neighbour of Henri Nestlé in Vevey, he was one of the first chocolatiers to make milk chocolate and is credited for inventing it, in 1875 or 1876, by adding powdered milk to the chocolate.
WHerbert Ralph Peterson was an American fast food advertising executive and food scientist most known for being the inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin in 1972. The breakfast business that he pioneered with this item had grown to an estimated $4–5 billion in annual revenues for the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's by 1993.
WAlfred Prunier was a French chef and restaurant owner.
WRenée Francoise Jeanne Richard was a renowned French cheesemonger in Lyon and the proprietor of La Mère Richard at Les Halles, 102 Cours Lafayette in Lyons.
WPhilippe Rochat was a Swiss chef and the owner of the Restaurant de L'Hôtel de Ville in Crissier, Switzerland.
WMicaela Ruiz Tellez (1821–1904), also known as "La Colchona", was born in Estepa, near Seville, Spain in 1821. She was an enterprising woman who perfected a recipe for mantecados, a traditional Spanish crumble cake often eaten at Christmas.
WBartolomeo Scappi was a famous Italian Renaissance chef. His origins had been the subject of speculation, but recent research shows that he came from the town of Dumenza in Lombardy, according to the inscription on a stone plaque in the church of Luino. Prior to this, the first known fact in his life had been that in April 1536 he organised a banquet while he was in the service of Cardinal Lorenzo Campeggio. He served several other cardinals after this, then began to serve pope Pius IV, entering the service of the Vatican kitchen. He continued to work as a chef for the pope Pius V. Scappi is often considered one of the first internationally renowned celebrity chefs.
WBent Stiansen is a Norwegian chef, who in 1993 became the first Scandinavian gold medal winner of the Bocuse d'Or.
WJerry James Stone is an American food blogger, vegetarian chef, activist, and internet personality, known for simple gourmet recipes, advocacy for a sustainable food and wine movement, and as a social media personality. In 2015, a Sierra Club magazine article named him one of nine chefs changing the world.
WJohn Taylor was an American businessman and politician who served in the New Jersey Senate. He created pork roll in 1856 and formed Taylor Provisions Company in 1888, establishing the brand "Taylor's Prepared Ham", sometimes called Taylor Ham. He also founded the Taylor Opera House in Trenton, New Jersey. Taylor Street in Trenton is also named for him.
WMina Thiis was a Norwegian cook and cookbook writer.
WClaire Alexandria Thomas is an American food enthusiast and blogger who once hosted her own ABC series Food for Thought with Claire Thomas, an E/I show which was a part of the weekend morning Litton's Weekend Adventure block.
WDavid Thompson is an Australian chef, restaurateur and cookery writer, known for his skill and expertise in Thai cuisine.
WCharles Tjessem is a Norwegian chef, and winner of the 2003 Bocuse d'Or. The victory was achieved over the French chef Frank Putelat by the smallest margin of points to date in the competition.
WKerry Vincent was an Australian television personality and baker. She was a judge on several Food Network shows, as well the co-founder of the annual Oklahoma Sugar Art Show.
WRichard Visser (1968/1969) is a Dutch pastry chef who runs a pastry stand, which mainly sells oliebollen. In 2011 his oliebollen were named the best in the Netherlands by the Algemeen Dagblad national newspaper in their AD-Oliebollentest; this was his eighth win in nineteen years. He won again in 2013.
WMarije Vogelzang is a Dutch "food", or "eating", designer who focuses on how people design their food habits, ways and rituals. She regularly works as a designer for organizations and a food industry consultant. She became the head of the food department at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2014. Her 2017 "Volumes" project, focused on the design of eating devices which help eaters think their plates are fuller than they are, to reduce overeating.
WAlan Yau, OBE is a British-Chinese restaurateur who founded the Wagamama chain in the United Kingdom. Of Hakka ethnicity, he was born in Sha Tau Kok, Hong Kong and moved to King's Lynn, Norfolk in 1975 with his family.