Chef Talks

Many people dream of being chefs because they love to cook. It’s fun. But professional cooking hardly qualifies as fun. It is way too hard, too demanding, and too competitive. Most of these masters became chefs because there was no alternative. It was a calling, a vocation.

Cooking is a demanding profession that requires patience, long hours, years of apprenticing, and hard, physical work. It is also a nurturing world with tremendous camaraderie. It takes years to become proficient with the necessary skills, and then to be the chef, you must be a logistics and human resource manager par excellence.

To be a master chef you need to go even further and have a special talent. Cooking is full of questions that science can help answer — questions you might not have even thought about asking but that can make you a better cook.You must have an understanding of food and its possibilities that most of us cannot fathom. You need to be open to many influences but also maintain your identity. And most of all you need to cook with love.

Greatest Chefs of All Times

1. James Beards (1903-1985) -”Father of Modern Day American Gastronomy”
2. Julia Child (1912-2004) – “The most recognizable name in American cookery”