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May, 2012

• Who Is The Best Chef in the United States? Sent Wednesday, May 9, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn May 9, 2012 Greetings! The James Beard Foundation Awards, an event fondly regarded as the Oscars of Food, had recently concluded with Eleven Madison Park Chef, Daniel Humm, leading the winners. But who is James Beard? Chef Wolfgang Puck fondly remembers Chef James Beard as a kindly soul whom anyone would want to have as their grandfather. James Beard loved three things - food, […]
• Asia's 50 Best Restaurants Sent Thursday, May 3, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn May 2, 2012 Greetings! The World's 50 Best Restaurants, sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. Now the countdown begins for Asia's 50 Best Restaurants sponsored by S.Pellegrino and Acqua Panna. The World's 50 Best Restaurants list is recognised around the world as the most credible indicator of the best places to eat on Earth. It […]

April, 2012

• Local Chefs vs. Celebrity Chefs Sent Tuesday, April 24, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn April 25, 2012 Greetings! Is Gordon Ramsay damaging his culinary reputation by opening too many restaurants? Celebrity and Superstar chefs who put their name on multiple restaurants should try to keep up two key areas of their businesses if they want to protect their reputation, industry professionals have said. First off, they should make sure that they always offer high quality […]
• Should You Quit Your Job? Sent Wednesday, April 18, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn April 18, 2012 Greetings! Are you thinking of quitting your job and looking for a new one? Well, it happens to everyone. It happened to me and it happened to a lot of chefs I know as well. But sometimes, there are a lot of things that you need to take into consideration. Our job consumes a lot of hours and you have to make sure that you spend all those hours doing something you […]
• What Kind of Company Do You Work For? Sent Thursday, April 12, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn April 11, 2012 Greetings! Given a choice, would you rather work for a company that values its people and invests in them so that employees AND the company can grow... or one that thinks employees should just figure it out for themselves? Obviously you won't always have the luxury of choosing to work for a great employer; sometimes you just take what you can get. But if you have […]
• The Truth About the Life of a Chef Sent Tuesday, April 3, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn April 4, 2012 Greetings! Nowadays, most people think that the life of a chef is glamorous and easy. This is actually not surprising considering the fact that celebrity chefs are seemingly living glamorous lives. They earn millions of dollars. They have their own TV shows and they travel all over the globe. It is not surprising why culinary schools are flourishing. But we all […]

March, 2012

• Do Chefs Hire Ghostwriters to Write Their Cookbooks? Sent Thursday, March 29, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn March 20, 2012 Greetings! A recent NY Times article about cookbook ghostwriters has left celebrity chefs infuriated and mad. The article alleges that many chefs including Rachel Ray, Jamie Oliver and Mario Batali actually hired ghostwriters to write their cookbooks. Julia Moskin said, Recipes are product, and today's successful cookbook authors are demons at providing it -- […]
• 2012 James Beard Awards Finalists Announced Sent Wednesday, March 21, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn March 20, 2012 Greetings! The finalists for the 2012 James Beard Awards were announced at an event held in the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas. The president of James Beard Foundation, Susan Ungaro was very pleased to announce the rise of the food entertainment. The chef and restaurant winners will be announced on May 7 at the Annual Awards Ceremony at Lincoln Center in New York […]
• The Chef as a Product and a Brand Sent Friday, March 16, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn March 16, 2012 Greetings!Nowadays, celebrity chefs are as famous and practically as rich as other celebrities. In fact, Forbes has recently released a list of the world's richest chefs (please see link below). Given that many celebrity chefs operate multiple restaurants all over the world, it is quite obvious that they do not really cook the food at their restaurants. This makes […]
• Gender Has No Role in the Kitchen Sent Wednesday, March 7, 2012 CBD eZine Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn March 7, 2012 Greetings!Not everyone outside the kitchen knows the absence of gender in the kitchen. Oh, we may have different lockers, but we are definitely all the same the minute we enter the kitchen doors. We grab our uniforms and our knives and we're all off to work. We learned to pull our weight, carry out pots, cut fishes open, sharpen knives and boil potatoes. We start to […]

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