celebrity chef

Ugandan President Idi Amin eating a roast chicken leg in 1978 (Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Meet the chefs who fed some of the world’s most notorious dictators

A new book features interviews with chefs who served Idi Amin, Fidel Castro and Saddam Hussein on how—and why—they cooked meals for a dictator

620 animals were killed in the making of this celebrity cookbook

Mario Batali, Susur Lee and Gordon Ramsay top a new report that ranks celebrity chefs based on the number of “sentient animal deaths” in their cookbooks

Julia Child’s life in America

A follow-up from Alex Prud’homme on his aunt Julia Child, the original celebrity chef

What Emeril needs is a good scandal

America’s least notorious chef is primed for a comeback—if he wants one

A celebrity chef on $16 a week

How frugal meals turned a single mom into a foodie hero

Out in the open

Nigella Lawson: Out in the open

What happens when the dark side of an enviable marriage is made public, for all the world to see?

What the pluck????

How Gordon Ramsay’s embattled empire came to include a down-at-the-heels Montreal chicken joint