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Highest Paid Celebrity Chefs

Who's cashing in the biggest on culinary skills

By Rebecca Smith Hurd,  Newser User

Posted Aug 13, 2008 12:39 PM CDT
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(Newser) – Rachael Ray may not be a classically trained chef, but her cooking prowess has made her a wealthy woman nonetheless, reports Forbes. Thanks to four Food Network programs, a talk show, and a self-titled magazine, she's the highest-paid celebrity chef, pulling in $18 million a year. Here are 9 others who bake up plenty of bread:

  1. Wolfgang Puck: $16 million

  1. Gordon Ramsay: $7.5 million
  2. Nobuyuki Matsuhisa: $5 million
  3. Alain Ducasse: $5 million
  4. Paula Deen: $4.5 million
  5. Mario Batali: $3 million
  6. Tom Colicchio: $2 million
  7. Bobby Flay: $1.5 million
  8. Anthony Bourdain: $1.5 million
     


World-renown chef Wolfgang Puck pulls in about $16 million a year.
World-renown chef Wolfgang Puck pulls in about $16 million a year.   (AP Photo)
Yum-O! Top-earning celebrity chef Rachael Ray cooks with actress Kate Hudson during a taping of The Rachael Ray Show in New York.
Yum-O! Top-earning celebrity chef Rachael Ray cooks with actress Kate Hudson during a taping of "The Rachael Ray Show" in New York.   (AP Photo/The Rachael Ray Show, David M. Russell)
Chef Mario Batali plates a pasta dish in the kitchen of Del Posto, his Italian restaurant in New York.
Chef Mario Batali plates a pasta dish in the kitchen of Del Posto, his Italian restaurant in New York.   (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg, File)
Anthony Bourdain turned his restaurant experience into the best-selling tell-all, Kitchen Confidential.
Anthony Bourdain turned his restaurant experience into the best-selling tell-all, "Kitchen Confidential."   (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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chef • Mario Batali • Rachael Ray • Alain Ducasse • restaurateurs • top chefs • Gordon Ramsay • Wolfgang Puck • Nobuyuki Matsuhisa • Paula Deen • Bobby Flay • Anthony Bourdain • Tom Colicchio

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