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Chef in a white uniform and hat cooking with a frying pan over a stove, with steam rising in a professional restaurant kitchen.

A bronze bust of an Indigenous American figure sits in a kitchen, overlaid with sacks of rice marked with a green check and milk with sugar cubes crossed out.

Visit the European Commission's canteen and watch chef Cosar monitor the variety of menus

Learn through chemistry the five tips to cook a better Thanksgiving dinner

Hear about the experimental findings on meat tenderness, muscle cell shrinkage, and loss of water while cooking meat

The effects of too much salt in your diet

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Key People

American television cook and author Ina Garten smiles while posing for a photograph at 2015 Time 100 Gala in New York City. She is wearing a black dress and a pearl necklace.

Ina Garten

American chef, television personality, and author

The Sioux Chef

Sean Sherman

Sioux chef, activist, ethnobotanist, and educator

Thomas Keller

Thomas Keller

American chef and restaurateur

Chef José Andrés

José Andrés

Spanish chef, restaurateur, and humanitarian

Marcus Samuelsson

Marcus Samuelsson

Ethiopian-born chef

James Beard, a bald white man in a suit, stands in his kitchen holding two baking pans.

James Beard

American culinary expert and cookbook author

Jacques Pépin

Jacques Pépin

French chef and author

Anthony Bourdain recording a television appearance, Buckinghamshire, England, October 25, 2013

Anthony Bourdain

American chef, author, and television personality

Madhur Jaffrey

Madhur Jaffrey

Indian-born actress, chef, and writer

Paula Deen smiling outdoors, wearing a red patterned shawl, white ruffled blouse, and red beaded necklace.

Paula Deen

American chef

Ferran Adrià

Ferran Adrià

Catalan chef

René Redzepi

René Redzepi

Danish chef and restaurateur

Mario Batali

Mario Batali

American chef, television personality, and author

Julia Child

Julia Child

American cook, author, and television personality

Auguste Escoffier

Auguste Escoffier

French chef

Grant Achatz

American chef

British chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay

Gordon Ramsay

Scottish chef and restaurateur

Alice Waters

Alice Waters

American restaurateur, chef, and activist

Rachael Ray smiles while holding her cookbook Week in a Day at a book signing event, seated at a table with chairs and books in the background.

Rachael Ray

American chef and television personality

Jamie Oliver

Jamie Oliver

British chef

Chocolate bar broken into pieces. (sweets; dessert; cocoa; candy bar; sugary)

Food Around the World

Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)

Ultimate Foodie Quiz

Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).

What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz

Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food

A World of Food Quiz

Slices of lemon pie topped with meringue.

Baking and Baked Goods Quiz

Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).

What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz