# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/charles-ranhofer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:28:30.788Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/charles-ranhofer"
name: "Charles Ranhofer"
slug: "charles-ranhofer"
description: "Charles Ranhofer was the chef at Delmonico's Restaurant in New York from 1862 to 1876 and 1879 to 1896. Ranhofer was the author of The Epicurean (1894), an encyclopedic cookbook of over 1,000 pages, similar in scope to Escoffier's Le Guide Culinaire."
tagline: "American chef (1836-1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Charles-Ranhofer.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "France"
  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Chefs"
  slug: "chefs"
profileType:
  name: "Chef"
  slug: "chef"
birthDate: "1836-11-07"
deathDate: "1899-10-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           43.33
  momentum:             1.875
  historical:           4.825308
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 183
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ranhofer"
    title: "Charles Ranhofer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ranhofer"
    title: "Charles Ranhofer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A6'%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%9C%D7%A1_%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A8"
    title: "צ'ארלס רנהופר"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ranhofer"
    title: "Charles Ranhofer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%9F%A5%E5%B0%94%E6%96%AF%C2%B7%E5%85%B0%E9%9C%8D%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "查尔斯·兰霍夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2918191"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump