​Jamie Oliver’s name has so permeated the general consciousness that it may be hard to remember—or, for Americans, to even realize—what made him famous in the first place. The answer is the British TV show The Naked Chef, which turned Oliver, then a 24-year-old River Café line cook, into an overnight, boy-band-level sensation. It would’ve been easy to just call it quits after that, but the series was just the beginning for Oliver, who went on to found a restaurant for struggling youths, overhaul the entire U.K. public school meal system (by persuading Tony Blair to more than double the allocated budgets), and open upwards of 60 restaurants worldwide. He also came out the other side when the restaurant projects didn’t go as planned, a journey chronicled in Chef’s Table: Legends, a new series devoted to culinary giants. Episodes on José Andrés, Thomas Keller, and Alice Waters follow. —Julia Vitale