Where Vermont Ranks Among States With The Best Chefs

Few states produce the level of top-notch culinary maestros the way that the Green Mountain State does.

Between James Beard Award nominees like Nisachon Morgan and Eric Warnstedt and a host of other top-notch culinary artists in the region, the country’s second-least populous state punches well above its weight class when it comes to food.

With National Culinary Arts Month upon us for the month of July, BetVermont.com decided to look at which states across the United States have access to the best of the best chefs that you can find in America.

While BetVermont.com patiently awaits Vermont sports betting we utilized Best Chefs America, who have the 5,000 best chefs in a database to establish the top culinary talent in the United States, to collect the state location for each of the top chefs.

We then utilized the estimated July 1^st 2022 Census state population numbers to figure out the states with the best chefs by capita. Note this is where they are located, not where they are from.

States With The Best Chefs Per Capita In America

Overall Rank	State	# of Chefs on List	Chefs Per Capita
1	Vermont	46	0.000071
2	Rhode Island	49	0.000045
3	Nevada	125	0.000039
4	Hawaii	48	0.000033
5	Maine	41	0.000030
6	Wyoming	17	0.000029
7	New York	540	0.000027
8	Delaware	26	0.000026
9	Oregon	102	0.000024
10	Louisiana	106	0.000023
11	Colorado	130	0.0000222
12	Virginia	192	0.0000221
13	New Jersey	198	0.000021
14	California	796	0.000020
15	Massachusetts	116	0.0000166
16	New Hampshire	23	0.0000164
17	Connecticut	57	0.000015
18	Alaska	11	0.0000149
19	Washington	111	0.0000142
20	Montana	15	0.0000133
21	New Mexico	28	0.0000132
22	Florida	270	0.00001214
23	South Carolina	64	0.00001211
24	North Carolina	128	0.0000119
25	Idaho	23	0.0000118

Where Vermont’s Chefs Rank Nationally

Out of the 50 states and Washington D.C. that BetVermont.com surveyed, Vermont produced the most chefs on Best Chefs America’s list per capita.

In total, 46 chefs on the publication’s list hailed from Vermont, representing 0.000071 of the state’s total population (643,077) — ranking ahead of states like Rhode Island (0.000045), Nevada (0.000039), Hawaii (0.000033) and Maine (0.000030) nationally.

Other states that Vermont knocked off when it comes to culinary excellence were Wyoming (0.000029), New York (0.000027), Delaware (0.000026), Oregon (0.000024) and Louisiana (0.000023), illustrating how unique the state’s cooking scene is on a national scale.

In terms of the raw number of chefs on the publications list, Vermont’s total (46) ranked ahead of seven (of the 25 states included), with Alaska (11 chefs) and Montana (15 chefs) having the lowest number overall.

Author

Christopher Boan

@cgboan

Christopher Boan is a lead writer at BetVermont.com specializing in covering state issues. He has covered sports and sports betting in Arizona for more than seven years, including stops at ArizonaSports.com, the Tucson Weekly and the Green Valley News.