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Why Become a Chef? 5 Good Reasons

So you’ve loved cooking since you were little, and now you’re wondering what life would hold if you decided to pursue your passion full-time.  Do chefs get paid well?  What about stability?  Benefits?  Would you really be able to do well in life as a chef?  Well, here’s a little list to get you psyched [...]

5 Ways to Increase Your Chefitude

Chef hat and arrow? Or ghost and pine tree?

Note: Chefitude = Chef + Aptitude.  (Not chef + attitude, that is a subject for a different post).

The following list contains five sure-fire ways to increase your cooking abilities and general “chefiness”.  I am not legally able to guarantee the following, but [...]

10 Reasons Not To Enroll In Culinary School

10. Long hours
9. Blazing hot or freezing cold kitchens
8. Doing all those dishes
7. Getting yelled at by chefs
6. Standing for the majority of the day
5. Tuition fees now require your firstborn
4. Cleaning out walk-in refrigerators
3. Cleaning out walk-in freezers
2. Cleaning out whatever the hell is hiding behind the stoves
1. Looking like a walking used napkin [...]