On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 10:09:09 +0100, "Giusi" >
wrote:

>"Sheldon"
>"Pete C." > wrote:
>> Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> > > How would you define a cook?
>>
>> > > I think it is someone who prepares food who:
>> > > Steve
>>
>> > Nice attributes, but I don't think most are needed.
>>
>> > There are people that do have all of the attributes you describe and
>> > have a> > genuine interest in learning and expanding the culinary
>> > experience. ?I don't> > know what title to give them, but cook, IMO, is
>> > not the right one.
>>
>> Chef vs. cook perhaps? Chef developing recipes vs. cook following them?-
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>
>>Chefs are more involved with the >economics and management of a
>>kitchen, chefs are typically not >very cood cooks.
>
>Since a chef must have come up successfully through all the stages of the
>kitchen, your comment reflects your prejudice. Chefs are not elected. They
>are the "chief" because they earned their ways to the top. Or do you think
>Thomas Keller, Greg Achatz, etc. were born with a toque and a whisk?
>
It was a difficult delivery in both cases, I'd hazard.
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