Rockstar Chefs Don't Have to Be the Best Cooks

Popular culture throws around the word “chef” as if anyone who works in a restaurant kitchen is one. Not so. Strictly speaking, the title is short for chef de cuisine — French for head of the kitchen — with its near English cognate “chief” and its Spanish equivalent jefe projecting the weight of “boss.” We’ve had a few reminders lately of what that kind of kitchen overlord is like. The UK is seeing three of its superbly talented, almost cartoonishly archetypal masters of the hob — Marco Pierre W