Meet Leonor Espinosa: The World's Best Female Chef marrying food with art and politics. From its jungles to its deserts: the world's newly-crowned best female chef, Leonor Espinosa, draws her inspiration from Colombia's vast biodiversity and painful history.
Colombia's Leonor Espinosa who uses food to drive social change has been named as the world's number one female chef.
Chef Leonor Espinosa received The World's Best Female Chef accolade on 18th July at the awards ceremony for The World's 50 Best Restaurants 2022 in London, sponsored by S. Pellegrino & Acqua Panna.
1. Chef Julia Child. As a legend in the industry, Julia Child is a star both in the kitchen and on television.
Overall, 6.04% of the Michelin-starred restaurants analysed are led by women and 6.73% of the world's best 100 restaurants have a female head chef.
33.2% of master chefs are women and 66.8% of master chefs are men.
There are always plenty of young chefs creating dishes to an exceptional standard, but the youngest chef ever to achieve three Michelin stars was Italian chef Massimiliano (Max) Alajmo, who, at just 28, was head chef of his family's restaurant Le Calandre, in Rubano, Padua, when it was awarded its third Michelin star.
Sydney's Josh Niland Is the Only Australian to Make the Top 100 Best Chefs in the World List for 2022. The Best Chef Awards just served up its latest round of gongs — and seafood king Niland won the Best Chef Innovation Award, too.
A former student of his was the now infamous Gordon Ramsay. Alain Ducasse may easily be the most successful among the world's top 10 chefs. This is what he managed to achieve: Earned his 21 Michelin stars and kept them throughout his career.
Spain's Dabiz Muñoz has been named best chef in the world for the second year in a row, at the Best Chef Awards 2022. The awards took place at the Crystal Gallery of the Palacio de Cibeles, headquarters of the Madrid City Council in Spain's capital, at a ceremony attended by luminaries of the gastronomic world.
In 14 seasons, only 4 women have actually won the title of Top Chef, and it wasn't until Season Four that a female chef won.
Executive Chef (Chef de Cuisine)
This position is the pinnacle of any chef career. An executive chef doesn't spend all their time cooking but manages every operation in the kitchen. There is usually only one executive chef at any restaurant.
Anne-Sophie Pic – 8 Michelin stars
Anne-Sophie Pic is the female chef with the most Michelin stars, holding eight stars across her five restaurants.
It is then often reported that there was a 50-year gap before Anne-Sophie Pic became the fourth woman to win a set of three stars, despite Bise's granddaughter Sophie regaining the family restaurant's three stars in 1985, and similar awards made by Michelin to female chefs such as Nadia Santini, Elena Arzak and Clare ...
Other three-star female chefs have since followed, with the three Michelin star accolade remaining the pinnacle of many professional chefs careers. However, even today just five female chefs can be pinpointed in a list of over 130 three Michelin starred restaurants around the world.
At Adlards in Norwich, by age 22, Byrne was the youngest chef to win a Michelin star. He worked at a number of Michelin-starred establishments.
1. Joël Robuchon: 31 Michelin Stars. Many consider the late French chef Joël Robuchon the best chef of the modern age.
A chef is a chef, there is no female word for it. If you do your job well then it doesn't matter.
WGBH put The French Chef on the air on Feb. 11, 1963, and Julia Child became public television's first and most enduring star. Audiences fell in love with her wavering voice, fondness for wine and butter, eagerness to hack away with a knife, and customary closing phrase, "Bon appétit." The series ran for 10 years.
Ginger Gaddi. Ginger, a self-taught cake master from Sacramento, CA, has won the 2022 Greatest Baker Competition.