Celebrity chef A 2012 paper published in the "BMJ" found that recipes in top-selling books by television chefs (Nigella Lawson, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Jamie Oliver and Lorraine Pascale) were less healthy than supermarket ready meals. Neither ready meals nor the chefs' recipes met national or international recommendations for a balanced diet. Celebrity chef A celebrity chef is a kitchen chef who has become famous and well known. Today celebrity chefs often become celebrities by presenting cookery advice and demonstrations via mass media, especially television. Several chefs have been credited with being the first celebrity chef, among them historically Bartolomeo Scappi and Marie-Antoine Carême.
Chef Academy Chef Academy Chef Academy is a reality television series which premiered on November 16, 2009, on Bravo. The show followed Jean Christophe Novelli, a chef with restaurants in London, France and South Africa. On the show, he opened a test program for a culinary institute in Los Angeles. There were nine students competing in "Chef Academy". Names, ages, and hometowns below are from the Bravo website. Although "Chef Academy" never had a true winner of the show, Kyle Daley was announced Best Chef of "Chef Academy". It was announced on the final episode of the season. The students are assessed