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Measure the girth of the chef and you can rate his restaurant.
Old French axiom.

Charles Ranhofer (1836-1899) was the first internationally renowned chef of an American restaurant, Delmonico's in New York City. He published a cookbook, The Epicurean in 1893, which contained more than 3,500 recipes.

Famed inovative television comic, Ernie Kovacs (1919-1962) first TV appearance was on Philadelphia's WPTZ (NBC) in 1951 as the chef in a live, unrehearsed cooking show called ‘Deadline for Dinnner’.

In 1956 four U.S. chefs won the Culinary Olympics in Frankfurt, Germany.  Paul Laesecke, Otto Spielbachler, Paul Leuppe and Paul Debes.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 317,000 Chefs and Head Cooks and 183,000 Bakers working in the United States in 2006.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 313,000 Chefs and Head Cooks in the U.S. in 2007.

 

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