Famous Foodies Posters: Chefs, Cooks & Gourmets: “C...-”
for classrooms, kitchens and restaurants.

Marie Antoine Careme
b. 6-8-1784; Paris, France
d. 1-12-1833

“Le Patissier Royal Parisien”

Marie Antoine Careme is considered one of the first internationally renouned celebrity chef. Known as “The King of Chefs and the Chef of Kings” he was an early practitioner and popularizer of the elaborate style of cooking known as haute cuisine, the “high art” of French cooking.

• Cooking for Kings: The Life of Antonin Careme, the First Celebrity Chef

Robert Carrier
née Robert Carrier McMahon
b. 11-10-1923; Tarrytown, New York
d. 6-27-2006; France

American Robert McMahon decide to stay in Europe after serving as an intelligence officer during WW II. He worked as a magazine editor and author before parlaying his French grandmother's cooking lessons into a career of restaurateur and cook book writer.

Robert Carrier quote ~
• “I used to love the way everyone talked about food as if it were one of the most important things in life. And, of course, it is. Without it we would die. Each of us eats about one thousand meals each year. It is my belief that we should try and make as many of these meals as we can truly memorable.”

Julia Child
née Julia Carolyn McWilliams
b. 8-15-1912; Pasadena, CA
d. 8-13-2004: Santa Barbara

Julia Child was incredibly successful in attracting huge audiences to her cooking show with her enthusiasm and unaffected manner.

Julia Child quotes ~
• “Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.”
• “Life itself is the proper binge.”
• “The only time to eat diet food is while you're waiting for the steak to cook.”

• Julia Child and Company
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Craig Claiborne
b. 9-3-1920; Sunflower, MS
d. 1-22-2000

Gourmet Craig Claiborne authored numerous cookbooks and was a restaurant critic and food writer.

Craig Claiborne quotes ~
• “Man is born to eat.”
• “Cooking is at once child's play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love.”

Catherine “Cat” Cora
b. 4-3-1967; Jackson, MS

Cat Cora, from a family of restaurateurs, is best known from being a featured chef on Iron Chef America.

Fanny Cradock
née Phyllis Nan Sortain Pechey
b. 2-26-1909; England
d. 12-27-1994

Fanny Cradock was a restaurant critic, television cook and writer who mostly worked with Major John “Johnnie” Cradock playing the part of her hen-pecked husband long before any legalities of marriage.

Fanny Cradock quotes ~
• “Carping about the way cabbage is cooked in Britain is like shooting a sitting bird with a gun that isn't licensed, on a Sunday out of season.” Daily Telegraph, 1964
• “When it comes to cooking, the best friends of a working woman with a family are a three-tiered steamer and a casserole.” Daily Telegraph, 1976
• “We approached our new microwave oven with the trepidation of two people returning to a reactor station after a leak.” Daily Telegraph, 1979