Fabulous People

Fabulous musician, excellent cook

Escoffier - pioneer of kitchen management, menu structure and service, mass catering, effective supply of food to the poor.

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Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Jennifer Paterson - Two Fat Ladies who did exactly as they pleased

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Monica Galetti - dominatrix extraordinaire

Toulouse Lautrec, another celebrity chef

Supremes de Volaille Rossini was my first dinner party main dish, over 30 years ago

Justin Wilson, the cajun chef. Ah Garontee !!!

Adriano Zumbo, patissier, macaron creator, and Masterchef torturer

Matt Preston, complete with trademark cravat

Elizabeth David, THE pioneer of food porn.

NIGEL SLATER is a cook who writes. He has been the food columnist for The Observer for eighteen years and is presenter of BBC1's Simple Cooking. Author of seven cookery books, including Appetite and The Kitchen Diaries, his latest is the two-volume Tender. The film of his childhood memoir Toast, starring Freddie Highmore and Helena Bonham Carter, was shown at Christmas on BBC1.

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Heston Blumenthal - the greatest 21st century eccentric so far

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The Bloggess - she's my hero

Heston Blumenthal, the great 21st century eccentric

Ess Jay blogging from Melbourne

Julia Child - spy, teacher, writer, tv chef. Loud, outspoken, big woman in every sense of the word.

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Dr. Tim Harlan, aka "Dr. Gourmet"