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Chef’s Table: Legends is pulling up a chair at some icons’ tables.
For the 10th anniversary of the long-running Netflix show, airing on Monday, April 28, the franchise looks to four influential celebrity chefs over four 45-minute episodes, PEOPLE can announce exclusively.
“In the last twenty or thirty years, a small handful of people changed how we look at food,” a voiceover narrates about the culinary leaders: Alice Waters, Jamie Oliver, José Andrés and Thomas Keller.
“Alice Waters is the mother of the farm-to-table movement. It’s her uncompromising way that she pushes us to do things we didn’t think were possible,” someone says about the chef and restaurateur. “A place where we treasure our farmers, that’s the world I want to live in,” Waters, who recently appeared on Meghan Markle’s new show, With Love, Meghan, explains in the clip.
Next up is Keller, chef-owner of French Laundry, the iconic Yountville, Calif., restaurant. “Thomas Keller has led the way for several decades now,” someone narrates. “He is the most important American chef in history.”
“When someone tells you you have influenced them, that’s why I do what I do,” Keller says.
“He’s changed the way people think about food in this country,” a voiceover narrates about “charming TV chef” Oliver. The British culinary star says, “I have a job to guide as many people to the joy of food and cooking and I’m going to give it my best shot.”
Of Andrés, someone says, “José is a maximalist. On one side you have a small empire of incredible restaurants and the other side you have a non-profit organization wanting to feed the world.”
The World Central Kitchen founder explains, “There is a moment I realized if you give people the spark of possibility, that spark becomes a big flame of hope.”
Fans of Andrés can see more of him on the small screen in his new NBC show Yes, Chef! The cookbook author and Martha Stewart host the competition series which sees 12 chefs compete for a cash prize of $250,000. The series airs on April 28.
“I didn’t know what it would be like working with him on something like this, but I thought it would be very interesting,” Stewart told PEOPLE on a day of filming in early March. “And it has turned out to be very interesting, despite the fact that he hears and sees imaginary raccoons everywhere and he has rubber duckies and chickens [that he hides on set],” she added of Andrés’ antics.
Even after long days on set while filming in Toronto, the two play cards, shoot darts and have meals together when their shoots wrap.
“We’ve been going out to dinner, she’s been coming and partying in my home for dinner, we cook together,” Andrés told PEOPLE. “We eat together until they kick us out of the restaurant — no, we’ve been behaving.”
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