Marie-Antoine Carême
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Marie Antoine (Antonin) Carême (8 June 1784 – 12 January 1833), was a French chef and author.
He is well known for greatly simplifying and writing about the style of cooking known as haute cuisine, the high art of French cooking. He was known as "chef of kings and king of chefs", because he cooked for royalty, and is often thought of as the first celebrity chef.