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Gwyneth Paltrow
Gwyneth Kate Paltrow is an American actress and businesswoman. The daughter of filmmaker Bruce Paltrow and actress Blythe Danner, she established herself as a leading lady appearing in primarily mid-budget and period films during the 1990s and early 2000s, before transitioning to blockbusters and franchises. Her accolades include an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, filmmaker, racecar driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur. He has been described as "one of the last of the great 20th-century movie stars". He was the recipient of numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, seven Golden Globe Awards, an Actor Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear for Best Actor, a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and nominations for two Grammy Awards and a Tony Award. Along with his Best Actor Academy Award win, Newman also received the Academy Honorary Award and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.

Eva Longoria
Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress, producer, director, and businesswoman. After several guest roles on television, she gained popularity for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless (2001–2003). Her breakthrough role as Gabrielle Solis on the ABC television series Desperate Housewives (2004–2012) earned her two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a Golden Globe nomination. She has appeared in the films The Sentinel (2006), Over Her Dead Body (2008), For Greater Glory (2012), Frontera (2014), Lowriders (2016), and Overboard (2018), winning an Imagen Award for the latter. She guest-starred on the Hulu mystery comedy-drama series Only Murders in the Building (2024), earning her a third Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series.
Richard Simmons
American fitness instructor and video producer (1948–2024)

Julia Child
American chef

Vincent Price
American actor (1911–1993)

Stanley Tucci
Stanley Tucci Jr. is an American actor. Known as a character actor, he has played a wide variety of roles, earning numerous accolades for his work.
Martha Stewart
American businesswoman, writer, TV personality (born 1941)

Linda McCartney
Linda Louise, Lady McCartney was an American photographer, musician, cookbook author, and activist. She was the keyboardist and harmony vocalist in the band Wings that also featured her husband, Paul McCartney of the Beatles.

Dinah Shore
American singer and actress (1916-1994)
Padma Lakshmi
Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer

Liberace
Władziu Valentino Liberace (May 16, 1919 – February 4, 1987) was an American pianist, singer, and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures, and endorsements. At the height of his fame, from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world, with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule.

Pearl Bailey
American actress and singer (1918–1990)

Tammy Wynette
American country singer (1942–1998)
Lydia Maria Child
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist (1802-1880)
Suzy Amis Cameron
American actress and model (born 1962)

Jill St. John
American actress

Kelis
Kelis Rogers (; born August 21, 1979) is an American singer-songwriter and chef. She attended New York's Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, where she played saxophone and was selected for the Girls Choir of Harlem. Upon graduation, Rogers landed a role as a backing vocalist for the hip hop group Gravediggaz. She then began working with music producers Pharrell Williams and Chad Hugo—collectively known as the Neptunes—who led her to sign with Virgin Records in 1998. The following year, she guest appeared on Ol' Dirty Bastard's Neptunes-produced single "Got You

Dom DeLuise
American actor (1933–2009)
Chrissy Teigen
American model

Johnny Mathis
American singer

Trisha Yearwood
American country singer

Alice B. Toklas
American writer (1877-1967)
Madhur Jaffrey
Indian-American actress, food and travel writer, and television personality
Kristin Cavallari
American actress
Paula Deen
American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress, and television personality
José Andrés
Spanish-American chef and restaurateur
Renee Paquette
Canadian sports broadcaster and actress
Rachael Ray
American television host, businesswoman, celebrity cook, and author
Floyd Cardoz
Indian chef and winner of Top Chef Masters (1960-2020)
Eric Barone
American video game developer

Ann Romney
wife of Mitt Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts
Alice Waters
American chef, activist, and author
Catherine Scorsese
American actress (1912–1997)
James Beard
American chef (1903–1985)
Tamra Davis
American film director, music video director, television director (born 1962)

Fannie Farmer
American chef (1857–1915)
Ina Garten
American author and television presenter
Ayesha Curry
Canadian actress
John A. McDougall
American physician
Wolfgang Puck
Austrian-American chef and restaurateur
Ali Wentworth
American actress
Dean Ornish
American physician and photographer (1953- )
Sandra Lee
American television chef and author

Mark Bittman
American journalist, food writer

Brownie Mary
American medical cannabis activist (1922–1999)
Rosanna Pansino
American YouTuber (born 1985)

Lidia Bastianich
American celebrity chef

Giada De Laurentiis
Italian-American chef, writer, and television personality

Mary Randolph
American food writer

Frances Moore Lappé
American researcher and author
Ted Allen
American television personality
Stella Parton
American country singer
Kim Chi
American drag queen and Drag Race alumna
Alton Brown
American chef, author and musician

Benjamin Smith Lyman
US mining engineer (1835-1920)
Marcella Hazan
Italian-born American cookbook author
David Chang
American chef
Christine Ha
American chef
Bobby Flay
American celebrity chef, restaurateur and reality television personality