With a new restaurant set to open here this spring and a two-day food and music festival scheduled in June, it’s easy to understand why Guy Fieri Google searches would be on the uptick lately in Columbus.
But a new study by a global travel company shows the Columbus-born chef is also the most searched-for celebrity chef in his home state and the entire nation.
Explore Worldwide looked at the global volume of Google searches for a number of celebrity chefs from November 2022 to October 2023. Scottish-born chef Gordon Ramsay, who hosts cooking, reality and travel shows in the United States and the United Kingdom, was the most Googled chef in the world over that span with about 12 million searches, according to the study.
English chef Jamie Oliver was second, the subject of more than 4.4 million searches. People searched Fieri’s name nearly the same number of times, Explore Worldwide said.
Fieri, 56, was born in Columbus but raised in Ferndale, California. Although his official “Guyography” at guyfieri.com doesn’t mention his Ohio roots, he has been playing them up a lot lately.