The only chef in America to hold two simultaneous three-Michelin-star restaurants, Thomas Keller transformed a 19th-century Napa Valley laundry into The French Laundry—one of the world's most coveted reservations. Self-taught and relentlessly precise, he's the rare culinary mind who made French fine dining feel essential rather than stuffy. Beyond his restaurant empire (Per Se, Bouchon, Ad Hoc), he's been knighted by France and launched cult-favorite product lines.