Chef's Story


Chef's Story is a 26-Part Public Television series featuring Dorothy Cann Hamilton interviewing well known chefs and restaurateurs. Hamilton, founder and CEO of The French Culinary Institute, conducts the interviews in front of culinary students in the first half of each episode.
Each chef then moves into a kitchen in the second half and prepares a dish that they consider signature or instructive. The FCI's International Culinary Theater acts as the host for each episode.
Inspired by Inside the Actors Studio, interviews focus on each guest's growth as a chef and the philosophy they bring to their restaurants.
Chef's Story is produced by Soho Culinary Productions, Full Plate Media, and Lemnos Development and debuted on public television stations in April 2007.
A companion book compiled by Dorothy Hamilton and Patric Kuh was also published by Harper Collins.

List of episodes

  1. Rick Bayless
  2. Anthony Bourdain
  3. Lidia Bastianich
  4. André Soltner
  5. Bobby Flay
  6. Daniel Boulud
  7. Jacques Pépin
  8. Thomas Keller
  9. Cat Cora
  10. Patrick O'Connell
  11. Michel Richard
  12. Alain Sailhac
  13. Marcus Samuelsson
  14. José Andrés
  15. Todd English
  16. Norman Van Aken
  17. Suzanne Goin
  18. Dean Fearing/Robert Del Grande
  19. Dan Barber
  20. Jacques Torres
  21. Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  22. Charlie Palmer
  23. Charlie Trotter
  24. David Bouley
  25. Arun Sampanthavivat
  26. Tom Colicchio