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chef

[shef] / ʃɛf /


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Since the restaurant’s 2024 opening, with a menu designed by chef and co-owner Aric Attebery, Fountain Grains & Greens pays 15% more for chicken and 25% more for steak.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

Kacie Carter, a nutritionist, chef and the founder of Honey Hi, a gluten-free breakfast and brunch spot in Echo Park, said, “I’m not of the mind that we should be ‘maxxing’ anything.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

At Nisei, a restaurant in San Francisco, chef David Yoshimura now offers a five-course meal of just desserts.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

Most diners come to Nisei, a restaurant in San Francisco, for chef David Yoshimura’s $274-per-person omakase dinner menu.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

If my mom wasn’t a chef, she could have been a samurai.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

A defense of yelling in restaurants: It’s a forbidden behavior in today’s restaurants—but Amanda Albee spoke to chefs who say it massively improved their careers.

From Slate Aug. 19, 2026

Following in the footsteps of pioneering overseas restaurants like Coda in Berlin and Room4Dessert in Bali, more domestic pastry chefs are introducing menus entirely dedicated to the dessert course.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

The series never asked us to admire chefs simply because they were famous.

From Salon Aug. 6, 2026

That includes a camera-equipped oven that tells home chefs when their cookies are done, and the first refrigerator to make chewable nugget ice.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 4, 2026

I never saw many Black pastry chefs on the shows I watched, or in the cookbook section of the library, but I was still determined to be one when I grew up.

From "From the Desk of Zoe Washington" by Janae Marks




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