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the only artist whose masterpiece is destroyed, on purpose, by the people who love it most
means A trained professional cook, especially the one in charge of a kitchen who directs the menu and the other cooks.
from Borrowed from French in the 19th century, short for chef de cuisine — literally 'head of the kitchen.' The French chef means 'chief' or 'head,' and it descends from Latin caput, 'head' — so a chef and a chief are the same word wearing different hats, both meaning the one at the top. Caput also quietly seeds words like 'captain' and 'capital,' all of them pointing back to that single Latin head.
- hat pleats
- 100 folds traditionally signified 100 ways to cook eggs
- brigade system
- kitchen ranks were borrowed from military chains of command
- chef means
- French for 'chief,' short for chef de cuisine
- taste fatigue
- top chefs barely eat their own dishes after tasting
- burn rate
- average kitchen career peaks before age forty
gordon ramsay — british chef with 16 michelin stars across his restaurants, known for hell's kitchen and masterchef
thomas keller — chef of the french laundry in napa valley, consistently ranked among world's top restaurants
alice waters — founder of chez panisse in berkeley, pioneer of farm-to-table movement since 1971