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Becoming the Next Cookie Cutter in the Chef World

Today most chefs need one or two knives, a box cutter and a can opener in their tool kit...

Words of Wisdom from a Chef

Get ready for years of sacrifice, hard work, and stress. Learn as much as you can, read everything, ask questions, write things down, save your money and eat at other restaurants, show up to work early and offer to stay late, come to work on your day off just to learn how to make pastry or hone butcher skills.

15 signs you’ve been a bartender for too long

Everything good must come to an end. Here are 15 signs that you’ve been bartending for too damn long...

Hollandazed and Confused

Every self-respecting chef or cook in the industry should be able to properly cook meat, process fruit and vegetables, and make a sandwich

The Original Hell's Kitchen

“Any chef who says he does it for love is a liar. At the end of the day it’s all about money. I never thought I would ever think like that but I do now. I don’t enjoy it. I don’t enjoy having to kill myself six days a week to pay the bank. But if you don’t cut the mustard you’re finished. If you’ve got no money you can’t do anything; you’re a prisoner of society. At the end of the day it’s just another job. It’s all sweat and toil and dirt: it’s misery.”

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