Chefs
“One cannot think well, love well, or sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
“So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being.”
“Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone. Bad food is fake food, food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.”
— Anthony Bourdain
“I think every woman should have a blowtorch.”
- Julia Child
As always, choose your level of participation:
For the Essentials, start with the Sous Chef level.
For a Deeper Dive, continue your training with the Chef de Cuisine level.
For the Fullest Experience, complete the top Executive Chef level.
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READ parts of these 2 PDFs:
- The Flavor Bible (pages 10 thru 17)
- Eating Animals (the “Storytelling” opening, containing 4 small sections, The Fruits of Family Trees, Possible Again, Eating Animals, and Listen to Me)
WATCH these Movies & Documentaries:
- Roadrunner: A film about Anthony Bourdain (2021)
WATCH these YouTube Shows & Clips:
- The Restaurant Scene from the movie “Pig”
- The Burger Cook Off Scene from the show “Parks & Rec”
- Epic Rap Battles of History: Gordon Ramsay vs. Julia Child
- Paul Rudd on the “Hot Ones” show
- The Cheeseburger scene from the movie “The Menu”
- Episodes of “The French Chef (on PBS)
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WATCH these episodes of certain TV Shows:
- Street Food: Asia (s1e2 “Osaka, Japan”... on Netflix)
- Street Food: Latin America (s1e4 “Lima, Peru”... on Netflix)
- Chef’s Table (4 episodes… s2e1, s2e6, s3e1, s3e6… Netflix)
- Great British Baking Show (4 episodes… s4e12, s10e12, s12e10, s14e2… Amazon Prime/Netflix)
WATCH these YouTube Shows & Clips:
- Look up these episodes of “Binging with Babish” on YouTube
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WATCH these Movies:
WATCH these episodes of certain TV Shows:
- Boiling Point (s1e2… Netflix)
- Chef! (2 episodes… s1e4, s2e7… Tubi)