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Cooks Biographies
Websites
StarChefs.com
Links to web pages, recipes and biographies of 100 famous chefs.
In Seattle's Kitchens, 6 Degrees
Seattle Times article (November 18, 2007) on local chefs and restaurants.
Below are just a sampling of Renton Technical College library materials
containing cooks biographies.
Baker-Clark, C.A. (2006). Profiles from the kitchen: What great cooks
have taught us about ourselves and our food. Lexington, KY: University
Press of Kentucky.
Call number: 641.5092273 Baker-C 2006.
Bourdain, A. (2000). Kitchen confidential : adventures in the culinary
underbelly. New York: Bloomsbury.
Call number: 641.5092 BOURDAI 2000
Brandon, R. (2004). The people's chef: The Culinary Revolutions of Alexis Soyer.
New York: Walker.
Call number: 641.5092 BRANDON 2004
Child, J. & Barr, N.V. (1995). In Julia's kitchen with master chefs.
New York: Knopf.
Call number: 641.5973 CHILD 1995i
Claiborne, C. (1982). Craig Claiborne's A feast made for laughter.
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday
Call number: 641.5092 CLAIBO 1982
Clark, Gillian. (2007). Out of the frying pan: A chef's memoir of hot kitchens,
single motherhood, and the family meal. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Call number: 641.5092 CLARK 2007
Clark, R. (1993). James Beard : a biography. New York: HarperCollins
Call number: 641.5092 CLARK 1993
Clark, R. (1996). The solace of food: a life of James Beard. South
Royalton, Vt. : Steerforth Press.
Call number: 641.5092 CLARK 1996
Clayton, B. (1993). Bernard Clayton's cooking across America : cooking
with more than 100 of North America's best cooks and 250 of
their favorite recipes. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Call number: 641.509227 CLAYTON 1993
Davis, D. (1999). If you can stand the heat : tales from chefs &
Restaurateurs. New York: Penguin Books.
Call number: 641.5092 DAVIS-D 1999
Finigan, R. (2006). Corks & Forks: Thirty years of wine and food. Emeryville, CA:
Shoemaker & Hoard.
Call Number: 641.013 FINIGAN 2006.
Fitch, N. R. (1997) Appetite for life: the biography of Julia Child. New York:
Doubleday.
Call number: 641.5092 FITCH 1997
Franey, P., Flaste, R. & Miller, B. (1994). A chef's tale : a memoir
of food, France, and America. New York: A.A. Knopf.
Call number: 641.5092 FRANEY 1994
Ferrary, J. (2004). Out of the kitchen. McKinleyville, CA: John Daniels
Call number: 641.30092 FERRARY 2004
Hamilton, D. and P. Kuh, Eds. (2007). Chef's story: 27 chefs talk about what
got them into the kitchen. New York: Harper Collins.
Call number: 641.5092 CHEFS 2007
Irvine, R. (2007). Mission, cook! New York: Harper Collins.
Call number: 641.59 IRVINE 2007
Jones, E. (1992). Epicurean delight : the life and times of James
Beard. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Call number: 641.5092 JONES 1992
Jones, J. (2007). The tenth muse: My life in food. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.
Call number: 641.5092 JONES 2007
LaFemina, J. (2006). A man & his meatballs: The hilarious but true story of a
self-taught chef and restaurateur. New York: Harper Collins.
Call number: 641.5945 LAFEMIN 2006.
Lee, S. (2007). Made from Scratch. Des Moines, IA: Meredith.
Call number: 641.5092 LEE-S 2007.
Mannke, J. and J. DeMers. (2007). Wanderlust: The life of a globetrotting chef.
Houston, TX : Bistro Le Cep.
McNamee, T. (2007). Alice Waters and Chez Panisse. New York: Penguin.
Call number: 641.5092 MCNAMEE 2007.
Mendelson, A. (1996). Stand facing the stove : the story of the women
who gave America the Joy of cooking. New York: H. Holt.
Call number: 641.5092273 MENDEL 1996
Moore, J. (1997). Never eat your heart out. New York: Farrar, Straus
& Giroux
Call number: 641.5092 MOORE 1997
Olney, R. (2005). Reflexions. New York: Brick Tower Press.
Pender, Jesse. (2007). From a cat house to the White House: The story of
an African-American chef. Baltimore, MD: PublishAmerica.
Ramsey, G. ( 2007). Roasting in Hell's Kitchen: Temper tantrums, F words,
and the pursuit of perfection. New York: Harper.
Call Number: 641.5092 RAMSAY 2007
Ruhlman, M. (2000). The soul of a chef : the journey toward perfection.
New York: Viking
Call number: 641.5092 RUHLMAN 2000
Ruhlman, M. (1997). The making of a chef : mastering heat at the
Culinary Institute of America. New York: Henry Holt.
Call number: 641.5092 RUHLMAN 1997
Simpson, N. (2006). Gordon Ramsay: The biography. London: John Blake.
Call number: 641.5092 SIMPSON 2006
Smith, G. (2006). Jamie Oliver: Turning up the heat: A biography. London:
Andre Deutsch.
Call number: 641.5092 SMITH 2006
Sanger, M.B. (1976). Escoffier: Master chef. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux.
Call number: 641.5092 SANGER 1976
Tower, J. (2004). California dish. New York: Free Press.
Call number: 641.5092 TOWER 2004
Turner, M. T. (2004). Emeril: Inside the amazing success of today's most
popular chef. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Call number: 641.5092 TURNER 2004
White, M. P. & J. Stein. (2007). The devil in the kitchen: Sex, pain, madness,
and the making of a great chef. New York: Bloomsbury.
Call number: 641.5092 WHITE 2007.
Last updated: 1/15/08
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