Chef and restauranteur Daniel Bouley had a reputation to live up to. After catering to over 400 weddings and big events, he had to pull out all the stops for his own wedding. So the celebrity chef threw the Grand Party of all Parties — an event that lasted five days and featured the finest food and wines (some from their own birth years). The photo above shows one dinner in a dried-out moat. How romantic!

Art Smith — who has been Oprah’s personal chef for nearly a decade — may find himself working in the White House kitchen.

In this article, he said that he had been tapped by Barack Obama to do his catering.

So what’s Mr. Smith’s appeal? Well, he has won two James Beard Foundation awards, released two cookbooks (Back to the Table and Kitchen Life). Other clients include former Governors of Florida, Bob Graham and Jeb Bush as well as Brazilian artist Romero Britto.

Meet one of the contestants of Top Chef — Radhika Desai (right), executive chef of Between Boutique Café & Lounge.

Expect her to show her mastery of spices, which (she says) she combines with “grace and restraint.”

Check out the preview of the upcoming season of Top Chef. Who knows, from this batch of hopefuls could come the next celebrity chef.

Celebrity chef fans will also look forward to cameos by Martha Stewart, Jean-Georges, Eric Ripert, Rocco DiSpirito, and Wylie Dufresne.