A good chef has to be a manager, a businessman and a great cook. To marry all three together is sometimes difficult.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.
First of all, I can't really claim to be a great chef.
Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'
Part of what makes a great chef is the ability to adapt, cook, and to taste. A great chef will use all their food knowledge, food memories, and senses to work with each ingredient and apply themselves to the dish they are creating.
In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.
I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
The hardest thing for a chef is to become comfortable with what you do. Not to be too neurotic and worried with what you are doing and how wrong or right you are.
'Chef' doesn't mean that you're the best cook, it simply means 'boss.'
I was lucky enough to marry a wonderful chef.
Chefs are nutters. They're all self-obsessed, delicate, dainty, insecure little souls and absolute psychopaths. Every last one of them.