toque

No white toque, no classic technique — just the gleam of grease and the indecent thrill of being close to danger, desire and dinner service.

I don't care what some chef in a toque says about caramelizing onions; I want to hear the telephone cord cooking lowdown you'd warn your cousin about when she was making dinner.

Other pieces in the collection, which ranges from $275 to $1,350, are a toque, reversible fleece jacket and reversible vest.

Outside, men chatted around a large metal wood-burning cooker with a stove pipe, two wearing chef’s toques.

When I was nine, for instance, I received an Emeril Lagasse-branded miniature chef’s uniform, complete with a starchy white coat and toque.