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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.

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.
Julia Child
American chef
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

Pearl Bailey
American actress and singer (1918–1990)

Tammy Wynette
American country singer (1942–1998)

Jill St. John
American actress
Suzy Amis Cameron
American actress and model (born 1962)

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
Chrissy Teigen
American model

Trisha Yearwood
American country singer

Alice B. Toklas
American writer (1877-1967)
Kristin Cavallari
American actress
Paula Deen
American cook, cooking show host, restaurateur, author, actress, and television personality
Rachael Ray
American television host, businesswoman, celebrity cook, and author
Julie Powell
American blogger

Ann Romney
wife of Mitt Romney, First Lady of Massachusetts
Alice Waters
American chef, activist, and author
Elisabeth Hasselbeck
American television personality and talk show host (born 1977)
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
M. F. K. Fisher
American writer (1908–1992)
Ali Wentworth
American actress
Sandra Lee
American television chef and author

Elizabeth Robins Pennell
American author (1855–1936)

Mary Randolph
American food writer

Frances Moore Lappé
American researcher and author

Lidia Bastianich
American celebrity chef
Rosanna Pansino
American YouTuber (born 1985)

Giada De Laurentiis
Italian-American chef, writer, and television personality
Christine Ha
American chef
Marcella Hazan
Italian-born American cookbook author
Helen Barolini
American writer
Laurie Colwin
American novelist, short story writer, food writer (1944–1992)
April Margera
American reality television personality
Leah Chase
American chef (1923-2019)

Amanda Hesser
American food writer
Daphne Oz
American writer and television personality
Isa Chandra Moskowitz
American food writer
Augusta Foote Arnold
American naturalist and author
Teresa Giudice
American reality show participant
Betty Fussell
American writer

Katie Lee
American TV Host

Ruth Reichl
American food writer

Gail Simmons
Canadian food writer
Judith Jones
American book editor
Kathy Freston
American self-help writer
Jessica Seinfeld
American writer
Arlene Voski Avakian
Armenian-American academic
Mimi Sheraton
American food writer
Elizabeth Falkner
American television chef
Eliza Leslie
American food writer
Christina Tosi
American chef, author & television personality
Marian Burros
American cookbook author
Sophie D. Coe
American anthropologist, food historian and author
Cat Cora
American chef