4. Daniela Soto-Innes — The world's best female chef for 2019

28-year-old Soto-Innes, described as a "fun-loving" chef, was recently awarded the accolade of World's Best Female Chef for 2019 by The World's 50 Best Restaurants — the youngest ever winner of the award.

Best known as the protégée of Enrique Olvera, with whom she opened New York's Cosme restaurant in 2014, the Houston-born chef doesn't follow the traditional rules of fine dining — according to 50 Best, there's "no rule of silence" in her kitchen, which features music and pre-service exercises.

However, perhaps most importantly, her kitchen is filled with two-thirds women and mostly immigrant cooks ranging in age from 20 to 65 who she says would otherwise likely be driving taxis and working in laundromats.

She told 50 Best: "Cosme is somewhere where people from all cultures — Russia, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil — come to the US to make a little bit more money for their families. And they happen to come to a place where they actually enjoy what they're doing, instead of being in a laundromat or being an Uber driver or having any kind of other job that you usually come to the US to do when you want to send your family money."

In 2017, she and Olvera also opened casual eatery Alta, and the pair will launch in Los Angeles this year with adjoined restaurants Damian and Ditroit.

She said. "I've learned to empower the young cooks and the older cooks and that I shouldn't be ashamed of my age at all. I should embrace it and I make sure that everyone follows their dreams."