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Just because they have the loudest mouths or biggest onscreen personalities doesn’t mean that they are the most influential. Besides the list doesn’t seem to be complete without Julia Child or Wiley Dufresne. As for missing personalities, where’s Bobby Flay and Emeril?

Wonder how they are cooking ….. not one of my preferred chefs amongst these tops.

I am influenced by Paula Deen, Mario Batali and Giada DeLaurentis….I have tried their recipes and bought their cookbooks. 

they have to be active on any of the social networks to be considered influential by klout 

i wonder where alton brown is. no doubt one of the most active food personalities on twitter, to my knowledge.

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It is interesting to see that, while there is a correlation between fame and Klout score, it appears that interactivity is a key reason for the ordering.

I have to admit I was disappointed with the list as it seems a bit biast and more importantly I don’t know most of the people on it!

What research was done and safety nets to filter out fake accounts and robots?

A chef is NOT someone who “owns a restaurant” or “is on TV” or “wrote a book”. A chef is someone who commands a brigade in a kitchen. One of the members of this list, Tony Bourdain, would handily tell you so and has repeatedly by insisting that he is not a chef. Yet I’d put him at least into the lifetime honors for having shaped public perception about our job.

Zimmern is a stuntman, Ramsay is a bad restaurateur whose restaurants are failing left and right, scraping on the bottom of the bankruptcy barrel, Bourdain says himself he’s not a chef, De Laurentiis is an insult to culinary arts and sciences and not a chef, Paula Deen is not a chef and needs to really stop going on TV, Bittman is a journalist, not a chef, and Colicchio is a restaurateur and showman whose mediocre Craft chain of restaurants would get much less love if he didn’t spit on anything that is good and well about our profession as a judge on Top Chef.

Leaves Oliver who actually cooks for diners and whose Thirteen project is a ray of positive sunshine, and Jay who is a great guy, fun, and knows his shit.

Jamie Kennedy of Toronto deserves honourable mention.

Um, change the title to  10 MOST INFLUENTIAL CHEF-TV PERSONALITIES. So misleading.

You not knowing them doesn’t make the list wrong, it makes you an ignorant.

God a troll sad individual with no life.. Doesn’t make me ignormant it makes most of them irrelevant to me as I am not an American TV watcher and I live out in Asia. Having lots of Americans on the list gives an idea of the quality of people involved as simply people who know food are well aware the best food is in Europe. But hey sit and watch cable TV all day and learn simplistic meals without any real culinary exploits, ignorant my ass.. the poll is biast and no doubt American done.

Whether or not most of these are real chefs or not, I definietly listen to what Mario Batali has to say! In fact, if he recommends a restaurant, I usually put it in my BlendAbout (http://www.blendabout.com) Wishlist.

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And There have been some changes in the rankings since we measured last spring.
Thank you…