The Kitchen Revolution Doesn’t Mean Buying Every Gadget.

Recently, I thought I needed a new kitchen scale. (Turns out I found my old one under the seat of my car, but that’s a whole other post). So, I found myself in a kitchen supply store. I used to go into these shops with the eyes of a child standing in front of the [...]

Are You the Chef?: Kitchen Politics and the CIA

“You’re a chef? Wow!!! Where’d you go to culinary school?”
This is a question that I hear almost daily: “Are you a chef?” My answer is a disappointing, “I don’t know”. Chef is a shortened form of the French, chef de cuisine (lit. “Head of the Kitchen”) with Chef being rooted in Latin, meaning Chief. Somehow [...]