How Well Do You Know Your Celebrity Chefs?

From Top Chef to the Food Network, and from network television to Las Vegas fine dining, the world’s best chefs have rapidly ascended to celebrity status. Here’s a few quick questions to check how well you know your celebrity chefs:

1) Which well-known New York chef has written both a memoir and two crime novels, as well as hosting his own show on the Travel Channel?

a) Andrew Zimmern

b) Mario Batali

c) Anthony Bourdain

d) Tom Douglas

2) What accomplished food personality, dining critic, writer, and chef is known for saying “If it looks good, eat it!” But has admitted to detesting the extremely pungent Durian Fruit?

a) Anthony Bourdain

b) Tom Colicchio

c) Hung Huynh

d) Andrew Zimmern

3) Who had their own short-lived sitcom on NBC in 2001 that was canceled after just seven episodes?

a) Gordon Ramsay

b) Emeril Lagasse

c) Wolfgang Puck

d) Anthony Bourdain

4) What “Top Chef” host and restaurant owner was recently sued by a former employee for failing to pay minimum wage and misappropriating tips?

a) Anthony Bourdain

b) Harold Dieterle

c) Tom Colicchio

d) Padma Lakshmi

5) This chef and restaurateur was featured in the 1998 documentary “Boiling Point,” which chronicled eight months in his life as he tried to create a restaurant which would earn him three Michelin stars.

a) Gordon Ramsay

b) Joel Robuchon

c) Rocco DiSpirito

d) Sirio Maccioni

6) What chef appeared on an episode of “American Idol” in which he introduced contestant Kellie Pickler to some unusual foods?

a) Emeril Lagasse

b) Todd English

c) Wolfgang Puck

d) Mario Batali

7) This chef appeared on “Iron Chef America” and was a staple on the Food Network before moving to PBS where he teamed up with Gwyneth Paltrow for “Spain…on the Road Again.”

a) José Andrés

b) Mario Batali

c) Anthony Bourdain

d) Tom Douglas

8) What celebrity chef’s flagship restaurant Olives now has locations in New York City, the Bellagio hotel in Las Vegas, Washington DC, and Aspen, Colorado?

a) Wolfgang Puck

b) Sirio Maccioni

c) Todd English

d) Joel Robuchon

9) Who was the subject of the NBC reality show “The Restaurant”?

a) Wolfgang Puck

b) Todd English

c) Rocco DiSpirito

d) Sirio Maccioni

10) This world renowned French chef was named “chef of the century” by the guide Gault Millau back in 1989, and has mentored such distinguished chefs as Gordon Ramsay, Eric Ripert, and Michael Caines.

a) Daniel Boulud

b) Joel Robuchon

c) Michel Guérard

d) Guy Savoy

Answers on page 2.