There aren't many famous chefs, just TV stars who cook. Chefs like Grant Achatz and René Redzepi are only famous within the world of food.
Mark Cuban is to Gordon Ramsey as Rasmus Andersson is to René Redzepi.
Why Aren’t App Designers as Famous as Chefs?
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#12Totally subjective concept. This person knows of a lot of chefs and not a lot of app designers, and has projected his worldview onto everyone else.
As everyone else, we believe that the world sees the world the way we see it.
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#13I'd watch Iron Designer if that show existed.
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#14Silly question. Why aren't architects/engineers/doctors/lawyers as famous as chefs?
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#15Simple: cooking is extremely relatable. Everybody has prepared food at some point. And it's easy for people to tell - crucially, in a half-hour TV show - that a star chef is doing amazing things with food. Programming is just the opposite: inaccessible to non-programmers, very specialized, very technical, abstract.
And time consuming...