We're kicking off this list with a player that just so happens to still be on their respective team's active roster. Larry Fitzgerald has spent his entire sixteen-year career with the Cardinals and excelled despite not having a stable quarterback throughout the majority of his career. His wide receiver skills are amongst the greatest the NFL has ever witnessed. His route running ability is elite despite not having the speed that he once had as an NFL newcomer.
Following his reign at the University of Pittsburgh, Larry Fitzgerald was selected 3rd overall in the 2004 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals, where he's played his entire career. Throughout his lengthy career, the now 36-year-old wideout has been selected to the Pro Bowl a total of eleven times thus far and currently holds second place rights for both all-time receptions and receiving yards behind only, Jerry Rice. When it is all said and done for Fitzgerald, he'll find his way to the Hall of Fame once eligible.
Chefs made their way into celebrity land a while ago. But how many celebrities that weren’t trained as professional cooks are actually whizzes in the kitchen? Here are several that come to mind.
Actress Julia Roberts is confident about her cooking skills. “I’m quite a good cook,” she told E! News. “I’m like a closet home ec teacher…I can really cook anything.” Roberts has said she often cooks fish for herself and her kids. And speaking of her three children, “They think that I’m a good cook,” Roberts told People. “They actually told me that I should open a restaurant.” She also relishes cooking for the holidays, particularly shredded Brussel sprouts. Roberts hasn’t published a cookbook, but we did find recipes attributed to her for peach crisp and banana hemp muffins. Or you can make the same summer salad the actress supposedly eats.
Chrissy Teigen started off as a supermodel. Then her love of cooking filtered into her professional life too. At this point, she’s created recipes for a limited Blue Apron release and also just launched her own home and cooking line at Target named “Cravings,” after the two cookbooks she’s released. Teigen describes cooking as “a time of peace” for herself. So maybe peace out to her tuna melt sandwich or the fried chicken wings that are a favorite of her husband, John Legend.
Lady Gaga, whose real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, comes from a cooking Italian family. Her father started his own restaurant in New York and also published a cookbook. And apparently, Lady Gaga has inherited the family’s cooking genes. Her Instagram account occasionally features photos of her culinary activities. Sure, sometimes it’s topless cooking. But other times it’s more poignant like in the post she shared about her bringing food to the family of her dear friend who passed away. Want to try a Gaga/Germanotta family favorite? Check out her recipe for whole wheat pasta with a sweet fennel sauce.