Martin Benn
Martin Benn is the chef and co-owner of Sepia, a fine dining restaurant located on Sussex Street, Sydney, Australia.
Benn and Sepia have won multiple accolades over the years, including the "Australian Gourmet Traveller" Chef of the Year, the "Australian Financial Review" Chef of the Year and Restaurant of the Year and the "Sydney Morning HeraldGood Food Guide" Restaurant of the Year.
Benn was born in Hastings, England and trained under Michel Lorrain and Marco Pierre White.
He migrated to Australia in 1996 and worked at Forty One and Tetsuya
's before he founded Sepia in 2009.
Martijn Kajuiter
Martijn Kajuiter( Groningen, Netherlands, 1974) is a Dutch Michelin star winning head chef with The House in the Cliff House Hotel in Ardmore, County Waterford.
Kajuiter's passion for food started at a young age, due to his parents running a restaurant.
In 1991, aged 17, he started his kitchen career in Les Quatre Canetons, under head chef Wynand Vogel.
Like most chefs he moved around from restaurant to restaurant, to pick up as much knowledge and experience as possible.
That is why he moved to London in 1995.
Here he worked at L'Ortolan( under John Burton Race), Waterside Inn( under Michel Roux), La Tante Claire( under Pierre Koffmann) and finally in The Restaurant Marco Pierre White( under Marco Pierre White).
In 1998 he returned to" Les Quatre Canetons".
In 2000, he became head chef of restaurant Kwekerij de Kas in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Kajuiter came to Ireland in 2007 to become" executive chef in charge of Food and Beverages" of the Cliff House Hotel.
In that job he is responsible for the main restaurant of the hotel" The House".
Much to his surprise, he earned one Michelin star in 2010, only two years after the reopening of the hotel.
Marco Pierre White
Marco Pierre White( born 11 December 1961) is a British chef, restaurateur, and television personality.
White has been dubbed the first celebrity chef, and the" enfant terrible" of the UK restaurant scene.
In 1994, at age 32, White became both the youngest chef and the first British chef to be awarded three Michelin stars.
He has trained notable chefs such as Mario Batali, Gordon Ramsay, Curtis Stone and Shannon Bennett.
James M. Groves
James M. Groves was a state assemblyman.
As a Unionist, he was elected member of the Nevada Assembly on November 6, 1866, where he and W. T. Jones represented Nye County.
Groves' term started the next day and he served in one regular and one special session.
His term ended in November 1868.
Groves and Jones were succeeded by William Doolin and John Bowman.
Mel Smith
Melvin Kenneth Smith( 3 December 1952 – 19 July 2013) was an English comedian and film director.
Smith worked on the sketch comedy shows" Not the Nine O'Clock News" and" Alas Smith and Jones" with his comedy partner, Griff Rhys Jones.
Smith and Jones founded Talkback, which grew to be one of the UK's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming.
V. M. Jones
Victoria( Vicky) Mary Jones( born 1958) is a children's author.
She was born in Zambia and educated in Zimbabwe.
She completed a BA in English, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
Jones moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1997 with her husband and two sons, and has written all her books there.
Jimmy Lahoud
Jimmy Lahoud( born June 1949) is a Lebanese businessman and restaurateur in London, England.
He has owned restaurants such as Quo Vadis, L'Escargot, and Café St. Pierre( which became Maison Novelli).
Lahoud is an art collector, displaying his Picasso, Miró, Chagall, Warhol and Matisse pieces in at least one of his restaurants.
Lahoud is credited for launching the career of celebrity chef Marco Pierre White.
With White, Lahoud established White Star Line Ltd, which owns the Belvedere Restaurant.
Raymond Blanc
Raymond Blanc OBE( born 19 November 1949) is a French chef.
Blanc is the chef patron at Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons, a hotel- restaurant in Great Milton, Oxfordshire, England.
The restaurant has two Michelin stars and scored 9/10 in the" Good Food Guide".
He is entirely self- taught, but has himself taught or employed other chefs including Heston Blumenthal, John Burton- Race, Michael Caines, Paul Liebrandt, and Marco Pierre White.
Jeremy Round
Jeremy Round( 1957–1989) was a cookery writer and journalist for" The Independent" newspaper, feted by food lovers from Elizabeth David to Marco Pierre White.
The only book he published before his untimely death in 1989 was" The Independent Cook".
It was re-issued in 2001 and chosen as 38th in the 50 best cookbooks of all time as selected by" The Observer Food Monthly" team( Jay Rayner, Bill Buford, Rachel Cooke and Allan Jenkins) in 2010 In August 1999," The Independent" celebrated Round's work by publishing many admiring comments from the world of cooking.
Amongst these were Raymond Blanc:" he was an extremely serious food writer.
He was not only interested in restaurants, but also supermarkets, the food chain, all food issues.
He was very interested in bringing the consumer to be far more critical and demanding.
He criticised in a very honest way, but was never blunt.
He had such a passion for food that he could easily deconstruct the food itself.
Few critics can do that."
Clarissa Dickson
Wright:" He was the bearer of the food torch which passed from Elizabeth David to Jane Grigson to him.
Usually there's one person who's head and shoulders above his contemporaries, and he was that one.
And I'm not saying that just because he's dead.
No one matched his eclecticism and wit, his wicked humour.
I still use his book Independent Cook and I will not lend it to anyone- I'm paranoid someone will nick it"; Marco Pierre White:" He was a rare man- he has n't been replaced.
His knowledge was first rate and he was a great all- rounder.
He was very unusual in that he would be writing an article, for example about endive, and he'd ring me up and say" tell me three or four things that you'd do with endive"- a perfect example of his professionalism and humility.
He was a critic and food journalist with a tremendous amount of integrity".
The Guild of Food Writers Awards( established in 1996) continues to present in his memory the" Jeremy Round Award for Best First Book" in recognition of outstanding achievements in food writing and broadcasting.
Before his meteoric rise as a cookery writer, Round also wrote poetry.
He was a member of the group of writers meeting at The Old Fire Station in Oxford in the mid-1980s.
Alan Davidson remembered" his wit, often self- deprecatory.
And what I chose to represent him, with his warm approval, in an anthology of writing about food was a poem[" Utopia"] he wrote on realising, from something Paul Levy had written, that he had hitherto been part of the vulgar herd who did not know that tea is seldom drunk with food in China.
The poet Martyn Crucefix celebrates Round as friend, poet and cook in' In Memory of Jeremy Round' from the collection" Beneath Tremendous Rain"( Enitharmon Press, 1990).
Jeremy Round was an old boy of Palmer's College in Thurrock, Essex, England.
Steve Drake (chef)
Steve Drake is a British chef who has held a Michelin star at two restaurants, including his current establishment, Sorrel.
He has previously worked under a number of chefs, including Nico Ladenis and Marco Pierre White.

Question: Do Marco Pierre White and V. M. Jones share the same nationality?
Answer: no