Cooks and chefs regularly debate the merits of culinary school.
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Celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay recently pilloried these institutions for saddling students with debt prior to sending them off into a low-wage industry. But many graduates have no regrets.
The British cook Jamie Oliver, whose series The Naked Chef premiered in 1999, is one of the most notable examples of rock star chefs.
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Today, chefs – and some women chefs too – are listened to, admired and respected. But it wasn’t always that way.
Many restaurant workers see violence as a core aspect of a hardscrabble kitchen culture that has existed for generations.
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Barbara Lynch’s alleged bullying of her employees is only the latest in a string of high-profile chef scandals. Two scholars explore how this behavior became normalized in kitchens across the US.
The entrance to Chez Panisse in Berkeley, California.
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‘Local, organic, sustainable’ are common buzzwords on US restaurant menus now, but it wasn’t always that way. Alice Waters and her restaurant, Chez Panisse, helped put them there.
Legendary Australian food writer Margaret Fulton, pictured here at the launch of a stamp collection featuring her in 2014, has died aged 94.
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Margaret Fulton built a long-lasting career on the provision of sound, trustworthy cookery advice.
He’s a top chef, a natural on TV, but perhaps Jamie Oliver underestimated the difficulties of running a restaurant chain in a recession.
In a recent research study, around 10 per cent of the recipes examined contained unsafe food preparation instructions.
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A food safety expert offers six tips on safe food handling that many cookbooks and cooking shows fail to deliver.
Jamie Oliver has a penchant for pasta.
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Once derided, UK food culture has improved out of sight thanks to Europe.
The restaurants that tend to win awards in Australia are predominantly run by white owners serving European food. Why don’t people of colour get the same attention in the kitchen?
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Who has the right to cook ‘ethnic’ food? And why do Western chefs tend to win all the top awards? The answer: it’s complicated.
Can eating steak in a restaurant (or reindeer tongue, for that matter) ever be considered an ethical form of eating? It depends who you ask.
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With the rising influence of celebrity chefs around the world, do restaurants have responsibilities to promote more ethical forms of eating?