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Here are some of Britain’s top celebrity chefs, who offer everything from good old fashioned home cooking to the more scientific ‘molecular gastronomy’. You’ll find a great recipe from each of them here, and we’ll tell you where you can find their famous restaurants.
Delia Smith is the first lady of British cooking – she’s been teaching the nation how to make our favourite dishes for over 30 years.
Gordon Ramsay is Britain’s most famous celebrity chef, and a global cooking star who has trained with some of the world’s best chefs.
London-born Heston Blumenthal is famous for his scientific approach to cooking - ‘molecular gastronomy’.
Jamie Oliver was born into the cooking business and, after catering college, worked in London with Antonio Carluccio at The Neal Street Restaurant and Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers at the River Café.
Marco Pierre White is Britain’s original celebrity chef. Described as the ‘enfant terrible’ of the UK restaurant scene and the Godfather of modern cooking, he was the first British chef to gain 3 Michelin stars.
Nigella Lawson is Britain’s favourite domestic goddess. Her first book ‘How to Eat: The Pleasures and Principles of Great Food’ led to her first TV series ‘Nigella Bites’, which was a huge success
Although Raymond Blanc was born in France, he has been working in Britain since 1972 and in 1977, at the age of 28, Raymond opened his first restaurant ‘Les Quat’ Saisons’ in Summerton, Oxford.
Rick Stein is the first celebrity chef everyone thinks of when it comes to seafood. He owns 4 restaurants, a delicatessen, a patisserie, a seafood cookery school and a hotel in the small fishing port of Padstow in Cornwall.
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