Netflix’s Chef’s Table: Legends cast and what it’s about ...Middle East

Some of the culinary world’s most prominent figures are about to be profiled in a new series to mark 10 years of the Emmy-nominated series Chef’s Table.

The Netflix documentary series, which has produced shows such as Chef’s Table: Pizza and Chef’s Table: France, has carefully picked the ingredients for this show but followed a slightly different recipe.

Jamie Oliver, José Andrés, Thomas Keller, and Alice Waters are the chefs in question. The programme makers adopted a “slow food” approach, spending weeks with their subjects to get a close, inside look at the detailed workings of their kitchens.

The production team behind this series said: “They are icons that should need no introduction.

“And yet, we found ourselves alternately surprised and enthralled by the vulnerability, the intimacy, and the previously untold stories that they shared with us.”

Jamie Oliver is the focus of the first episode in Chef’s Table: Legends (Phot: Netflix)

JJamie Oliver, 49, rose to fame in the early 2000s with his cooking series The Naked Chef after being talent-spotted while working at the River Cafe in Fulham, London.

This led to a succession of television shows, including Jamie’s Kitchen, Jamie’s 30-Minute Meals, and Jamie’s Comfort Food, a chain of restaurants called Jamie’s Italian, and a sponsorship deal with supermarket chain Sainsbury’s.

He has gone on to sell millions of cookbooks, becoming the best-selling British non-fiction author since records began, including Jamie’s Dinner, Jamie’s Ministry of Food and Jamie’s 15-Minute Meals.

He has used his high profile to campaign for healthier school dinners, train new apprentice chefs through his fifteen charity restaurants, and promote the learning of cooking skills.

He said: “When I started school, I had undiagnosed dyslexia.

“I really struggled. I struggled reading. I struggled with writing.

“I had loads of ideas and creativity, but I couldn’t get them on paper.

“Cooking was something that allowed me to express myself and have value.”

José Andrés

José Andrés, 55, is a Spanish-American chef and restaurateur who has won awards for his cooking and humanitarian work.

Originally from Mieres, Asturias, in northern Spain, he moved to the US in 1990 and, after working in restaurants in New York and Washington DC, opened his first restaurant, Minibar, in 2003.

Since then, he has launched restaurants across the US, including The Bazaar by José Andrés and starred in cooking shows in his native Spain, such as Vamos a Cocinar.

He has also taught a culinary physics course at Harvard University, was named dean of Spanish Studies at The International Culinary Center and started the Global Food Institute at George Washington University in Washington DC in 2023.

In 2010, he founded World Central Kitchen, a non-profit organisation that provides food relief after natural disasters.

He said: “When I say food can be the solution, I mean that at a very deep level.

“It’s a cultural thing, something that defines who we are. It’s part of our DNA.”

Thomas Keller features in the third installment of Chef’s Table: Legends (Photo: Netflix)

Thomas Keller, 69, is an American chef and restaurateur who has been awarded three Michelin stars for his restaurants Per Se in New York and The French Laundry in Napa Valley, California.

He is the only American chef awarded simultaneous three-star Michelin ratings for two different restaurants.

After opening The French Laundry in 1994, he launched Per Se in 2004. He also owns The Surf Club restaurant in Miami, and a chain of restaurants serving French bistro food called Bouchon.

He has written several cookbooks, including The French Laundry Cookbook, and was named America’s Best Chef by Time Magazine in 2001.

He said: “What made me a cook, and the reason I am in this profession, is because my mentor chef Roland Henin asked me that very question in 1977 in Narragansett, Rhode Island, at the Dunes Club, to be exact.

“I didn’t really have an answer.

“And he said, ‘We cook to nurture people’.

“And those few words changed my life.”

Alice Waters

Alice Waters, 81, is famous for her restaurant Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.

She opened the restaurant in 1971 and began building a network of local farmers, artisans, and producers to source ingredients. She has gone on to campaign for organic and sustainable food sources.

In 1995, she established The Edible Schoolyard, where school children became involved in growing, harvesting, and preparing foods from a garden. From that, she developed the School Lunch Initiative, making a healthy, fresh, sustainable meal part of the school day.

She has published a series of cookbooks, including the Chez Panisse Menu Cookbook, and became the first woman to win the James Beard Foundation Award for Best Chef in America in 1992.

What is Chef’s Table: Legends?

Chef’s Table: Legends is the latest instalment in the successful Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table, which has been running for a decade, focusing on culinary stars from around the world.

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Those have included Massimo Bottura, Dominique Crenn, Francis Mallmann, Mashama Bailey, Evan Funke, and Asma Khan.

The show goes behind the scenes in their kitchens and explores their lives, talents, and passions, which have influenced their cooking style.

There have also been spin-off series such as Chef’s Table: Pizza and Chef’s Table: France.

Documentarian David Gelb said: “The baseline for every chef that we’ve ever done is passion.

“It’s all about fully committing themselves to what they’re doing, be it their craft, or be it their message.

“And then we take the journey that their passion takes them on, and their ups and downs, and they go in the wrong direction, and they correct it.

“And that leads us to an amazing story.”

How to watch Chef’s Table: Legends

Chef’s Table: Legends premieres on Netflix on Monday 28 April.

It is a four-part series, with each episode focusing on one of the chefs, starting with Jamie Oliver in the first.

The show is only available on Netflix, so viewers will need a subscription that starts at £5.99 per month.

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