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What are the odds of a good cook becoming a successful chef?
Guest: Chef Enzo Fargione, Author, Visual Eats
We love good food. We love cooking for family and friends. So, given our love of good food, good cooking, and good people, why not open a restaurant and become chef.
This thought, which we suspect occasionally touches everyone who loves food, recently ran up against a time-lapsed kitchen scene in a video documentary entitled “The Farmer and The Chef.” This scene featured the activity of a restaurant kitchen during its rush. When speeded up so, the movement in the kitchen resembled the frantic to and fro of a bee hive in high summer.
We wondered, ‘How does one keep that kind of intense activity moving forward in a profitable way?’ And thus we turn to the chef, and wonder… What ingredients must a chef bring to the restaurant table; how must the chef combine these ingredients to cook up a successful restaurant; and…