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Food Revolution star Jamie Oliver joins Wolfgang Puck and Paula Deen among America's top-earning chefs

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Jamie Oliver has ranked second in a list of the most successful chefs in the U.S., beating the likes of Bobby Flay, Guy Fieri and Nobu Matsuhisa.
Wolfgang Puck topped the list of the country's highest-earning chefs, which was based on net worth rankings and previous salary estimates from Forbes.
According to the Daily Meal website, which compiled the research, the chef, 61, is estimated to be worth $400m thanks to his 21-strong restaurant empire and 50 Wolfgang Puck Express cafes.

Highest-earners: Wolfgang Puck  and Jamie Oliver  rank first and second respectively in a list of America's most successful chefs"

British-born Mr Oliver, 35, who shot to fame in the U.S. with his Food Revolution television campaign to cut child obesity, ranked second with an estimated fortune of $172m. 

The father-of-four, who has 20 restaurants in the UK, Dubai and Australia, has enjoyed huge success with his cookery shows and accompanying books.
Also among the chefs listed were Nobu Matsuhisa, the Japanese culinary giant behind the popular Nobu restaurants and TV cooks Paula Deen and Guy Fieri.

Grand masters: Daniel Boulud comes eighth, Alain Ducasse  is third and Nobu Matsuhisa  is sixth in the Daily Meal list"

Television personalities: Paula Deen  is the fifth most successful chef according to the list, while Emeril Lagasse  ranks at number 19

The site's editor, Colman Andrews, explained that the most financially-successful chefs have many commercial interests.

AMERICA'S 25 MOST SUCCESSFUL CHEFS

Est. worth according to the Daily Meal

1. Wolfgang Puck
2. Jamie Oliver
3. Alain Ducasse
4. Joel Robouchon
5. Paula Deen
6. Nobu Matsuhisa
7. Guy Fieri
8. Daniel Boulud
9. Todd English
10. Bobby Flay
11. Michael Mina
12. Charlie Palmer
13. Thomas Keller
14. Tom Colicchio
15. Masaharu Morimoto
16. Mario Batali
17. Gordon Ramsay
18. Anthony Bourdain
19. Emeril Lagasse
20. Jean-Georges Vongerichten
21. Paul Prudhomme
22. Rick Bayless
23. José Andrés
24. Barbara Lynch
25. David Burke

He writes: 'Without exception, the most financially successful [celebrity chefs] do lots of things at once.
'In fact - spoiler alert - very few of them ever actually cook in their own kitchens anymore. They're far too busy thinking up and launching new restaurants (and even, like Charlie Palmer, hotels), writing cookbooks, developing (or lending their names to) products of various kinds, and of course appearing on TV…
'The most successful chefs in America aren't just chefs - they're entrepreneurs, they're brands. Sometimes they're virtually whole industries.'
The site limited its search to culinary figures that built their careers as chefs in working kitchens, rather than than home cooks or restaurateurs.
It explained that though the likes of Alain Ducasse and Gordon Ramsay hail from outside the U.S., they counted because they have restaurants there, or have television shows that air in the country giving them a public profile.
Due to the nature of Daily Meal's research (some of which is based on press and industry rumour) the actual worth of the names in the top 25 is not listed.
Mr Andrews added: 'Though we're confident that we got relative scale right, we admit that the actual figures might be merely ballpark — so, sorry kids, but no dollar amounts here. Suffice to say that the range extends from six figures to eight.'

Larger-than-life: Mario Batali ranks 16th and Guy Fieri  is seventh"