Marie-Antoine Carême has been considered the first ‘celebrity’ chef. He was also known as the “king of cooks and cook of kings” (Kelly 2003: 225). Along his maturation into the culinary world, his cooking and creativity helped to develop haute cuisine. Haute cuisine or Grande cuisine is the “rich, intricate and elaborate cuisine of the 18th and 19th century French aristocracy and upper classes. It is based on the rational identification, development and adoption of strict culinary principles. By emphasizing the how and why of cooking, Grande cuisine was the first to distinguish itself from regional cuisines” (Labensky et al 2007: 5). Carême followed strict principles in creating a genealogy of sauces which he categorized into béchamel, velouté, espagnole, and allemande. In the simplest form they are thickened milk, thickened stock, thickened dark stock with tomato, and egg/acid emulsion like Hollandaise (Kelly 2003: 201). These rules are evident and discussed in his five volume encyclopedia on cookery called L’Art de la cuisine which is basically a ‘how-to’ book on haute cuisine. How did Marie-Antoine Carême become this great chef and create a new cuisine for the world?