Brian Manowitz, better known as Vegan Black Metal Chef, (Tampa, 1981?) is a cook, YouTuber and musician that uploads into YouTube cooking recipes videos with black metal music [1] singing the recipes. [2] His activity at YouTube as Vegan Black Metal Chef began in 2011. He records in Orlando, in a kitchen with a dungeon decor dressed in a peculiar way [1] (a vinyl armor). [3] He is a member of the music group Forever Dawn and is a keyboardist for the group Fields of Glass. [4]
When he was in college he quit eating meat. He studied behavior neuroscience at Gainesville. He moved to Orlando after finishing his studies. [1] He had the idea of Vegan Black Metal Chef when he thought of showing what vegans eat in a "simple" way. [4]
In 2013, Vegan Black Metal Chef was featured in truTV Presents: World's Dumbest... where his video was placed in #14 on the show's countdown of dumbest TV shows. [5]
Julia Carolyn Child was an American cooking teacher, author, and television personality. She is recognized for bringing French cuisine to the American public with her debut cookbook, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, and her subsequent television programs, the most notable of which was The French Chef, which premiered in 1963.
Alton Crawford Brown Jr. is an American television personality, food show presenter, chef, author, voice actor, and cinematographer. He is the creator and host of the Food Network television show Good Eats that ran for 14 seasons, host of the miniseries Feasting on Asphalt and Feasting on Waves, and host and main commentator on Iron Chef America and Cutthroat Kitchen. Brown is a best-selling author of several books on food and cooking. A recap series titled Good Eats Reloaded aired on Cooking Channel, and a true sequel series, Good Eats: The Return, ran from 2019 to 2021 on Food Network.
Mark Bittman is an American food journalist, author, and former columnist for The New York Times. Currently, he is a fellow at the Union of Concerned Scientists. Bittman has promoted VB6, a flexitarian diet.
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Ching-He Huang (Chinese: 黃瀞億; pinyin: Huáng Jìngyì; Wade–Giles: Huang2 Ching4-i4;, often known in English-language merely as Ching, is a Taiwanese-born food writer and TV chef. She has appeared in a variety of television cooking programmes, and is the author of nine best-selling cookbooks. Ching is recognized as a foodie entrepreneur, having created her own food businesses. She has become known for Chinese cookery internationally through her TV programmes, books, noodle range, tableware range, and involvement in many campaigns and causes.
Emeril John Lagassé III is an American celebrity chef, restaurateur, television personality, cookbook author, and National Best Recipe award winner for his "Turkey and Hot Sausage Chili" recipe in 2003. He is a regional James Beard Award winner, known for his mastery of Creole and Cajun cuisine and his self-developed "New New Orleans" style. He is of Portuguese descent on his mother’s side, while being of French heritage through his father.
The Best Thing I Ever Ate is a television series that originally aired on Food Network, debuting on June 22, 2009.
Donal Skehan is an Irish television personality, presenter, food writer, cook, photographer and former singer. He is known for his television series, cookbooks, popular YouTube channel and use of toast.
John Armand Mitzewich, more commonly known as "Chef John", is an American chef known for publishing instructional cooking videos on the blog and YouTube channel Food Wishes, with over 930 million views on his channel.
Whitney Leigh Miller Humphrey is an American chef who won the first season of the US version of MasterChef in 2010. Miller was named the first ever American MasterChef winner by MasterChef judges, Gordon Ramsay, Graham Elliot, and Joe Bastianich.
Romy Gill MBE is a British/Indian chef, food writer, author and broadcaster. She was the owner and head chef at Romy's Kitchen in Thornbury, South Gloucestershire.
Barry Lewis is a British cook, author and founder of the YouTube channel, Barry Lewis, which, as of June 2022, has over 931,000 subscribers.
James Kenji López-Alt is an American chef and food writer. His first book, The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science, became a critical and commercial success, charting on the New York Times Bestseller list and winning the 2016 James Beard Foundation Award for the best General Cooking cookbook. The cookbook expanded on López-Alt's "The Food Lab" column on the Serious Eats blog. López-Alt is known for using the scientific method in his cooking to improve popular American recipes and to explain the science of cooking.
Cooking with Dog is a Japanese cooking show web series. It premiered on YouTube on September 9, 2007. The show features a Japanese woman known only as "Chef" who prepares the featured dish of the episode while her toy poodle Francis narrates the process. While Chef speaks in Japanese, Francis narrates the episodes in English, a decision designed to expand the show's audience. Though initially focusing on Japanese cuisine, the show later expanded to include cuisine from other regions. New episodes were uploaded each Friday, before switching to a different release structure in early 2017. Despite the show's popularity and public appearances by Chef, the identities of both Chef and the show's producer are intentionally undisclosed out of privacy concerns.
Candice Hutchings is a Canadian YouTube personality, vegan chef, comedian, and author. She runs a YouTube cookery-related channel The Edgy Veg. Since beginning her channel in October 2012, her videos have received over 31 million views, and her channel has accumulated over 457 thousand subscribers. As of March 2017, she was one of the most popular vegan chefs on YouTube.
Babish Culinary Universe, formerly Binging with Babish, is a YouTube cooking channel created by American cook and filmmaker Andrew Rea that recreates recipes featured in film, television, and video games in the Binging with Babish series, as well as more traditional recipes in the Basics with Babish series. The first video in the series was uploaded on February 10, 2016.
Georgios Evlampios (Akis) Petretzikis is a Greek celebrity chef. Born and raised in Thessaloniki, he started working on the family business when he was 16 years old. When he turned 18, he moved to Athens to study Accounting and Finance in the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. He also started studying in a culinary school. In 2006, he moved to the United Kingdom where he worked for 5 years. In 2010, he returned to Greece to take part in the competitive cooking show The Master Chef. Six months later he was named the 1st Greek Master Chef. He appeared in the morning show To Proino Mou from 2012 to 2014. From 2012 until 2014 he worked as a Head Chef in Michel Roux’s restaurant Avenue Bistro in the Metropolitan Hotel. In 2014, he started his own web cooking show on his YouTube channel, Kitchen Lab. He also started Akis’ Kitchen, an English-language web cooking show. Since 2014, he has hosted various cooking shows: Kan’ to opos o Akis, Istories apo ti lista, Mia valitsa gemati gefsis, Ready, Steady, Cook (2016–2017), and Kitchen Lab (2017–2019). Since 2015, he is collaborating with Fresh One Productions making recipes for Jamie Oliver’s Food Tube channel. He is one of the 15 official affiliates of the channel. Petretzikis is the CEO of Akis Petretzikis Ltd – a company that publishes cooking magazines and books, produces cooking shows, runs restaurants and an e-shop with various gifts and kitchen products, designed by himself.
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Andrew Douglas Rea, also known by the pseudonym Babish, is an American YouTuber and cookbook author. He is best known for founding the YouTube channel Babish Culinary Universe and for creating and presenting its shows Binging with Babish and Basics with Babish. Rea has authored two cookbooks based on the series and has appeared as a guest in several other programs.