Alongside Barack Obama, Jeremy Lin, Warren Buffett, Rihanna, Angela Chase and Chelsea Handler in TIME’s annual list of the 100 Most Influential People in the World are a pair of chefs: René Redzepi and José Andrés.

Redzepi is the 34-year-old man behind Noma in Copenhagen, considered the best restaurant in the world (per S.Pellegrino at least) and the spark of the Nordic cuisine explosion. Ferran Adria writes Redzepi’s profile, declaring him atop the culinary Mount Olympus:

Today he is at the apex of the culinary world … There is no such thing as the best. But it is possible to point out something much more important: the chef who is the most influential, the one who establishes the way forward. René occupies this position.

Anthony Bourdain pens Andrés’ item, calling the Spanish-born DC-based chef more than just a chef: “He’s bigger and more important than that. No one kitchen — or 10 — can contain him. He is advocate, promoter, entrepreneur, philanthropist, artist.”

Meanwhile, Marie-Antoine Careme — history’s first celebrity chef and “the king of chefs and the chef of kings” – made Joel Stein’s very clever All-Time TIME 100 of All Time list.