We don’t know how they avoid dropping their smartphones into a bubbling stockpot or smearing their keyboards with butter, but somehow these busy restaurant chefs find time to tweet in the middle of dinner prep—and throughout the day. The authenticity of the tweets reveals that they’re coming from the chefs themselves—not a social media intern sitting behind the scenes. Here are the most prolific toques on Twitter.
Chef | Restaurant | Tweets | Followers | Tweet |
Shuna Fish Lydon | Peels (pastry) | 9,557 | 7.768 | Dear Jil Sander, if there's any chance you'd trade baked goods for clothing, get in touch. Need a chef model? I'm yer gal. |
Michael Symon | Lolita, Lola Bistro, | 8,549 | 90,904 | best advice my dad ever gave me..."try to do more by noon then most ppl do in a day"...it always keeps me going in the am |
Rick Bayless | Frontera Grill, XOCO, Topolobampo | 8,198 | 217,189 | R classic margaritas stay, but mixologist Jordan Johnston added a bunch of new stuff today. I'm n love w his North Shore gin&homemade tonic! |
Eddie Huang | Bao Haus | 7,680 | 6,046 | Let's go show them how we bring in the Chinese New year |
Richard Blais | HD-1, Flip Burger, | 7,589 | 154,293 | It makes me feel weird when I'm working in a coffee shop, & people near me are talking about my restos |
Alex Guarnaschelli | Butter, The Darby | 7,220 | 50,005 | Chocolate chip cookie dough. House smells like baking chocolate and vanilla. I am defenseless. |
José Andrés | Jaleo, The Bazaar, America Eats, Zaytinya, China Poblano, Oyamel | 6,488 | 61,937 | I was hungry, and guess what I took with me through security at the airport? A spider crab from Galicia. |
Matt Jennings | Farmstead | 6,020 | 3,947 | If I could make love to Bergamot armoa, I would. Not meaningless sex, but a long, lustful nite of citrus bliss. I'd even light some candles. |
Art Smith | Table 52, Art and Soul, Southern Art | 4,639 | 12,870 | People ask for my number 1 food, helped me on my healthy journey. Oatmeal is my answer, my daily mantra to health. |
Stephanie Izard | Girl & the Goat | 3,670 | 23,149 | New test overnight smoked goat leg... Think we might have to eat this one for staff brunch;) |
Michael Voltaggio | Ink | 3,455 | 139,118 | Thanks for stopping by for the consultation, how many cooks does it take to screw in a pasta extruder attachment? now we know! |
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