Posts by chef/journalist

You know this is a wierd business. You need to forget about adding this dis-gruntled employer to your resume. You are a student. If you show an area in which you show no employment, no one will probably ask for details, and if they do,...

HEY DUDE! After 25 years in the business, the best advice I can give you, and this comes from Chef Norman Van Aken of AMANO and now Norman's. Always do the best you can at any job, and you wqill rise. And always always work in the best...

It's tough entering the field as an entry level chef. Hopefully the school didn't give you the attitude that when you graduate you are automatically an Executive Chef, most do. You need to find a chef you would like to become a mentor...

Today the schools, without mentioning any names, put these cookie cutter chefs with no experience. Every one of them believe when they come out they should easily get an Executive's position. The worst thing about them, and there are...