Bruce | Aidells | Owner of Aidells's Sausage Company. |
Colman | Andrews | A food editor. |
Mr. | Bergamini | Owner of a butchers' shop. |
Roger | Berger | An American statistician. |
Les | Blank | A Berkeley's filmmaker. |
Paul | Bocuse | A French chef. |
Dr. | Bronner | A devotee of millet. |
Mr. | Chan | Ruth's father's friend. |
Robert | Charles | Owned a restaurant which served only lamb. |
Mr. | Chen | A chef. |
Cecilia | Chiang | Ownner of Cecilia's restaurant. |
Julia | Child | An American chef. |
Sally | Clarke | Jonathan's friend. |
Darrell | Corti | A man who knows about food and wine. |
Bruce | Cost | A cook. |
Marion | Cunningham | Ruth's friend. |
Anzonini | Del Puerto | A great singer. |
Eres Anna | Delgardo | Gabriella's birth mother. |
Beatrice | du Croix | Ruth's friend. |
Robert | Epstein | Editor of the Los Angeles Times. Aka: Bob. |
Al | Fisher | Mary Frances's husband. |
Ellen | Frank | Ruth's very good friend. |
Ken | Frank | The head chef. |
Fredy | Girardet | A Swiss chef. |
Douglas | Hollis | An artist. Aka: Doug: Duth. |
Chez | Isadore | Colman's friend. |
Danny | Kaye | A cook. |
Mary Frances | Kennedy Fisher | Ruth's acquaintance. |
Richard | Krause | Chinois's chef. |
Barbara | Lazaroff | One of the owners of Chinois restaurant. |
Mr. | Lee | Hotel usher. |
Virginia | Lee | A cook. |
Michael | McCarthy | Phil's business partner. |
Bradley | Ogden | A chef. |
Richard | Olney | A culinary genius. |
Mark | Peel | A young chef. |
Charlie | Perry | One of Los Angeles critics. |
Boonchoo | Pholatawarna | A Thai chef. |
Lori | Powell | One who tested Michael's recipe. |
Wolfgang | Puck | The most talented chef in Los Angeles. |
Phil | Reich | A wine writer. |
Ruth | Reichl | A restaurant critic. Aka: Rug. |
Juan | Rodriguez | Gabriella's father. |
Charlene | Rollins | A cook. |
Guy | Savoy | A French chef. |
Piero | Selvaggio | A restaurant owner. |
Lydia | Shire | A chef. |
Nancy | Silverton | A baker. |
Michael | Singer | A journalist. |
Joachim | Splichal | A Los Angeles chef. |
Joseph | Swan | A chemist and an inventor. |
Patrick | Terrail | American restaurant and hotel consultant. |
Kathleen | Turner | Ruth's close friend. |
Pierre | Vedel | Michael's friend from Paris. |
Alice | Walters | An American chef. |
Jonathan | Waxman | A chef. |
Orson | Welles | An actor. |
Evelle | Younger | A former attorney general of the state of California. |
Amora | | Robert's wife. |
Amy | | One of the pregnant women. |
April | | One of the pregnant women. |
Billy | | Darlene's husband. |
Charlie | | A cat. |
Claude | | Colman's close friend. |
Darlene | | A pregnant woman. |
Dorothy | | Miriam's friend. |
Ed | | A free lance travel writer. |
Edison | | An electrician. |
Franco | | Owner of a coffee shop. |
Gabriella | | Ruth's adoptive daughter. Aka: Gavi. |
Ingrid | | Michael's acquaintance. |
Jacques | | Ruth's friend. |
Jeffrey | | Ruth's acquaintance. |
Joanna | | One of the pregnant women. |
Joshua | | A lawyer. |
Jules | | The most sympathetic among the households. |
Lincoln | | The judge. |
Louella | | One of the pregnant women. |
Lourdes | | A witness. |
Marie | | Ruth's friend. |
Martha | | Nick's girlfriend. |
Miriam | | Ruth's mother. |
Nick | | The household patriarch. |
Pat | | Alice's friend. |
Pepita | | Claude's wife. |
Rachel | | One of the pregnant women. |
Romana | | One of the pregnant women. |
Roxanne | | A pregnant young girl. |
Sally | | One of the pregnant women. |
Susan | | Ellen's friend. |
Vernon | | A cook. |
Veronica | | One of the pregnant women. |